Katie FitzSimons

She simply represents the perfection. No words can describe her magnificent performance in classes, and also I don't remember that there is anyone I have met can compete with her professionalism. Katie FitzSimons is my level 5 Oral Skills teacher in Summer semester (session A & B), and before taking her oral skills class, I attended her writing skills class many times, one of Language Labs classes, in Spring semester. In other words, oral skills wasn't my first experience to her teaching.

Before start writing about my experience in Katie's class, I would like first to write about her qualities. Katie usually control and lead the class perfectly. She has the ability to give any student the chance to participate as many times as he/she wants without consuming more times than others. In addition, you don't have to ask her a question twice or ask her to have more details because you will get all the information you need from the first time. Moreover, some students used to dominant classes or be funny in a disturbing way; however, these students don't have any chance in Katie's present. Furthermore, when a student crosses red lines or participate inappropriately, she interrupts him politely and shows him his mistakes without insulting him or hurting his feelings.

Resulting in learning how to prepare myself for upcoming tasks is one of aspects that improved my academic study and made me think of reasons behind making moves or actions. In the past, sometimes I made decisions and put steps for future plans because I liked these steps and decisions without analysing them and see whether they would work or not; however, Katie taught me that lesson. "Why is Bayonetta the best action videogame?" and "Why does God of War have the best story in videogame world?" are types of questions that I found on my matrix sheet which made me to rethink over what I have done so far. Her comments on my matrix sheet shed some light on a part of my mind that didn't give attention to simple questions that can ruin my work. From that assignment, I realized that not everything you hand in to your teacher, even if it is correct, would keep you away from questions or providing answers for what you have done.

Writing about Katie is no doubt not an easy thing to do for fearing of not giving her what she really deserves, and I really hope that what I wrote visualizes her superb character. Enjoying being her student is not the main purpose behind my writing, but also her style of teaching and her support and passion to improve students are enough reasons to make anyone witness her greatness to write about her. I still remember a friend who asked me about Katie, "Is she really good?" and I answered, "If I have to pay to get in her class, I will do." Thanks Katie.