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Sarah Lord

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Raw average: 1.67/5 from 6 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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What students say

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CURRIC-319 · course not matched
Quality 2/5Difficulty 3/5
Sarah is very smart and very kind, but she just doesn't grade at all. The semester is officially over, with my final exam turned it last week, and I still don't have a single grade in canvas. As a student, how am I supposed to know what I'm doing if she never grades anything?
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CURRIC-319 · course not matched
Quality 2/5Difficulty 3/5
Sarah Lord is a great person and knows a lot about math but I feel like her lecturing led me askew quite a bit, and when we should've been doing interactive activities to really learn the concepts, we were either reading them in a textbook (which is hard for me to learn math/theories from reading about it) or being lectured in class for too long.
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CURRIC-319 · course not matched
Quality 3/5Difficulty 2/5
Overall good lecturer. Sometimes she goes in too deep to the content, but it's just because she wants us to truly grasp it. Takes FOREVER to grade, though. I wished I had more feedback throughout the semester. Very mindful of student's lives, however.
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Curric-319 · course not matched
Quality 1/5Difficulty 3/5
Sarah is a nice person, but this class was horribly executed. Everything was graded on a 1-4 system, 4=100% 3=75% 2=50% and so on. Grades dropped significantly with any score below a 4 even if it was due to minor mistakes. Grading criteria and expectations were very unclear. Grades weren't entered until the 11th week. The workload was overbearing.
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CURRIC-319 · course not matched
Quality 1/5Difficulty 3/5
I did not recieve a grade from this professor until 4 weeks before the end of the semester and although revisions were possible, unclear grading criteria left me with a lot to do in 5 days and the other half of the class had the entire semester. She is a nice person outside of the classroom but the setup and execution of this course was heinous.
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Classes with Sarah Lord

CURRIC 319

Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Elementary Mathematics 1

3 credits

CURRIC 319 teaches pedagogical content knowledge for elementary mathematics, exploring Common Core topics like arithmetic, number theory, and geometry.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.87 GPA, 90.5% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.86 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=39 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

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historical GPA · grades

Spring 2022–Fall 2025

Recorded teaching history

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TermCourseTitle
Fall 2026CURRIC 319Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Elementary Mathematics 1
Fall 2026CURRIC 367Elementary Education Practicum II

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