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Sarah Lord
What students say
Original student reviews · all captured dates
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?Rate My Professors ↗
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.Rate My Professors ↗
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.Rate My Professors ↗
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.Rate My Professors ↗
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.Rate My Professors ↗
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Classes with Sarah Lord
Develops pedagogical knowledge for teaching elementary and middle school mathematics according to Common Core State Standards, focusing on understanding student mathematical ways of knowing.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.69 GPA, 81.1% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.43 GPA, 67.9% A/AB (n=28 letter grades).
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026Elementary Education Practicum I involves observing, supervising small groups, developing lesson plans, and teaching/assessing lessons in science, social studies, literacy, and language acquisition.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
CURRIC 454
Student Teaching in the Middle School
1–10 creditsA supervised student teaching experience in elementary education within a 5th-9th grade classroom, focusing on professional development and social justice standards.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
CURRIC 463
Seminar in Elementary Education
1–2 creditsA weekly workshop seminar for elementary education students to develop skills as critically reflective practitioners and plan for full-time teaching experiences.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.95 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=22 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026Student Teaching in the Elementary School is a supervised teaching semester in a 4K-6th grade classroom within the elementary education program.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Student teaching specific to Early childhood/English as a Second Language certification, focused on developing teacher performance standards and social justice awareness.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
No recorded grade history
Recorded teaching history
Distinct courses recorded per term
Explore courses taught by this instructor →Browse recorded courses
| Term | Course | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2027 | CURRIC 320 | Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Elementary Mathematics 2 |
| Spring 2027 | CURRIC 340 | Elementary Education Practicum I |
| Spring 2027 | CURRIC 454 | Student Teaching in the Middle School |
| Spring 2027 | CURRIC 463 | Seminar in Elementary Education |
| Spring 2027 | CURRIC 464 | Student Teaching in the Elementary School |
| Spring 2027 | CURRIC 468 | Early Childhood/english as a Second Language Student Teaching |
| Fall 2026 | CURRIC 319 | Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Elementary Mathematics 1 |
| Fall 2026 | CURRIC 367 | Elementary Education Practicum II |
Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.
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