You would think that by paying so much for classes, they would be able to hire decent teachers. I regret not leaving this class the first day, and thank god I got out the second. Horrible horrible teacher. She seems to care more about her paycheck than teaching.

Sprague is the WORST teacher I have ever come across. I was passing at first because of the reports we did each week, but she didn't help me at all whenever I asked for help. She told me to go to the math center which was pointless. It sucks because I waited too long to drop the class and now I got an F for it. Take my advice. Don't take her class.

One of the WORST math professors I have ever had. I would not recommend unless this would be a refresher course for you. Tests and quizzes are horrendous. My whole class is failing right now. She is unorganized and loses track of time. Tries to cram an hours' worth of work into 15 min after class has ended. DO NOT TAKE.

Drop the class she is horrible. cant understand her accent at all

Nice enough person, terrible teacher, nothing to do with her accent. Does problems on the board but rarely involves class in lessons. Just look around the room when she teaches, half the class looks confused. Writes illegible notes on the board - stands in front of them - erases them. No graded HW is NOT A GOOD THING! Highly recommend to avoid her.

Absolutely awful. She is not one help at all. She goes through lectures very fast & if you ask her to slow down she will make rude remarks. Doesn't bother to help. I learn more from math assistants and the videos online. Rushes through lectures and then gives you the lab, so she can check her facebook which she should not be doing at work.

Yes, i passed the class but I will never take another class with her again! She is very unclear in her lectures along with her accent makes it incredibly hard to understand the material. The math lab along with online tutorials are a lot more helpful that her teaching. She shows you what to do instead of explaining what to do and why it's done

I was very good at math until Calc 2. Accent is SO thick, I was always lost because I didn't understand the problem at hand or because I had no idea what she was saying. Also, she faces the board for the majority of class working out problems and expecting you to follow along and just understand.. Not gonna happen. I would never take her again.

She won't care if there is only one person passing the class. She goes through material very fast and every time she asks the class a question she ends up answering it herself.

Gabriella Sprague is by far the worst teacher I've ever had . Her test are impossible, ive never takin anything like it. She puts questions on the test that we have never done before in class, and she lies to us about what the test will be like. Our last test was so difficult practically the entire class hadnt finished. DONT TAKE THIS TEACHER

I'm amath major at another school & thought it would be a good idea to take a course over the summer near home. i've never failed a math course in my entire life (and two years of college) but the way she yells at me when I ask questions after class & her grading I'm about to (or drop it before I do). she also has a heavy/ hard to understand accent

For starters if you're taking her summer math classes, BEWARE, they are hybrid classes and she might not tell you. Meaning that there will be assignments with due dates on Tuesday even though your class meets on Thursday nights. These assignments can be anything minor as homework but also significant as a quiz...

Today marks my last day in Sprague's Math 152 Summer Course and I've just learned that there is something called "Paper Quizes"... Maybe this is because she never mentioned it being a hybrid class. On the other hand, when in class her accent can be thick for some which can make those 4 hour long summer classes quite difficult to endure.

I have never felt the need to rate a professor, but this professor students need to be warned about. She is HORRIBLE and very rude when you ask questions. Her grading criteria is confusing and she makes a lot of mistakes

horrible teacher don't take her class . faces board the whole time if you ask questions they are most likely wrong to her. says right every five seconds and has a horrible accent no body could understand her. people dropped because it was so bad 3 weeks before semester ended and has subs for classes she cant make

Terrible teacher dont take her unless you want to retake the course. You cant even understand her

Class is extremely fast paced & test heavy. The majority of the tests are no calculator which makes them tedious. Her lectures are fast paced and if you are a visual learner you'll struggle. She talks through the material quickly and you often cannot see the board. She does not answer questions very clearly. LOTS of homework. No grading curve.

The least understanding professor I have ever had. Completely inconsiderate for her students. Does not prepare you for tests well. Hard to understand at first but becomes easier with time. Lacks care for how students perform in her class, but rather has the attitude that its all on the student no matter how well she teaches. Not an easy take.

this class has been miserable, avoid this professor like the plague. You know when a professor is awful when she calls you an idiot for not undersrand the matieral and admitting you need help...

She gives an INSANE (sometimes 120 questions to be done in a day) amount of homework, makes you feel dumb when you ask a question and she accuses everyone of not paying attention (when in reality she doesn't explain concepts very well). She overcomplicates every easy problem which makes simple concepts more confusing. Take someone else.

Horrible Professor. Her tests are so hard anf she talks to you like youre stupid. Worst professor at Brookdale. Dont take her

DON'T TAKE HER CLASS. She's someone of poor character and it shows always assumes negative intent and downright just not a nice person and I wish I could say more but I don't want to be mean. I just caution any student who sees this please trust me u have great potential but if you take this class you'll never see it and think you're dumb for it.

She is downright mean. Dont take her!

Sprague hates students. She makes math hard and Im good at math she doesnt help.

This lady cares about herself not us She stares at the board the whole class and doesnt look at you and is a snob, makes you feel stupid if you ask her a question. Worst Professor ever.

Her tests are impossible! if you ask for help she is annoyed. She is not a good teacher she holds a grudge s she wants you to be perfect

Eh no. Dont do it. Youre warned.

Professor Sprague is arrogant and you cant ask questions without her condescending attitude to make you feel bad. She gives hard tests and is like military people. Just no.

Too much work for precalculus its hard to get it done. Professor Sprague is not the worst but she is not good at explaining . She doesnt like teaching I think.

Professor Sprague gave tests and quizzes with umlimited time on Webassign. She teaches okay but not great. All the examples we do in class are too hard. I would not recommend her.

She just reads off the powerpoint, doesn't get the student involved. And if you have trouble with math, you are going to have to teach yourself. Her attitude with students is terrible. She doesn't try to help you at all. She's very short with students. Don't get me wrong she is nice but not a good teacher. TRY NOT TO TAKE THIS CLASS

This Professor is horrible/extremely mean, do yourself a favor and choose any other section but this one. She doesn't know how to teach, extremely boring 2 hours. Doesn't know how to use the applications assigned to her. She never stays on topic in class. No one in class has any idea of what she's talking about. You will never learn in this section

Prof. Sprague doesn't explain things so I can understand. She is not explaining well and she doesn't care about her teaching and it shows. quizzes are too hard and everyone the class on groupme is frustrated.

She acts nice but gets mad fast for no reason. She is an okay teacher nothing great. I don't recommend anyone take her class.

If you are able to keep your head down and not say anything correcting her then take her. If you have a slight problem with something a solution may never happen even if she is 100% wrong. If you need accommodations she may never properly accommodate you even if you bring it up to her, she will she no wrong in what she does. DO NOT TAKE HER!

Professor Sprague is very unprofessional made me feel very degraded as a person, by just asking for a simple question. During her lectures, she does a poor job of explaining assignments and material. When asking for a question regarding my grade, had a response with hurtful and mean emails. Do not take this class.

i dropped her class after the second week. This was my second college math class coming from a 4 year university and her class is harder. She expects you to know what to do in an INTRO class. She expects too much work from students who have 4 other classes to handle. Too much material taught in class for one chapter, it's hard to grasp the lesson.

Reading her reviews and watching her explain the syllabus and course work, made me understand what these student were talking about on here! I dropped the class immediately. she expects too much work from students with little understanding on the material and gets defensive and annoyed if you ask questions or come across confused.

as an interior design major work load is not an issue with me. i have projects that take 18 hours to do. This Professor expects 8+ hours of homework on material that she barely taught. She puts too much information up, that it gets confusing and her tests are impossible. she gets offended when all the students don't understand what we're learning.

If you want to genuinely learn anything about math, DO NOT take this professor's classes. She expects every student to know what to do and barely goes over any material before leaving you to work on the exercises she provides. In addition, the homework rarely if ever covers the material brought up in class. Absolutely terrible.

I would give her a 0 if I could. So disrespectful, and gives way too much work and not enough help.

I can't believe I actually paid money to sit in a classroom with her. Yes, she is smart BUT extremely cold, disrespectful, lacks empathy/sympathy, and emotionally unkinder. Being a professor at any learning institution, you should be smart AND emotionally reciprocal. Everybody deserves to be treated with dignity, the students pay her salary!

If you ask her a question she immediately becomes defensive and if you still can't understand the material, she'll just either get more defensive, more annoyed, shrug you off, or look at you like a deer with headlights. You feel totally humiliated when you ask a question and that person just repeats the same thing over and over again.

2 or 3 years ago, I missed some assignments because my mother was hospitalized with pneumonia and was having a hard time kicking it because she has asthma. When I approached her with my reason, I was totally honest and held nothing back. She stared right into my eyes and, loudly, started repeating the class syllabus word for word. She's horrible

Honestly, she is beneath the title or role of a professor or associate professor at BCC. Pure laziness and unenthusiasm in her teaching. There are professors at BCC who will positively alter the course of your life compared to her. I hate to say that way, but I have to say it like it is because nothing is more important than the truth. I've seen it

Being smart means nothing if you lack a heart. Being smart means nothing if you lack passion or enthusiasm in your teaching. Being smart is worthless if you refuse to share your knowledge. I've never seen anyone become so defensive over a question in my years of learning, especially when she's either distracted on her laptop or phone. Shameful!

Honestly, from reading these reviews and comparing them to actually being in a class taught by her, I 100% confirm and concur everything that has been said about Ms. Sprague here. Obviously, she is a professor who simply doesn't care and just wants a paycheck. I really wish I saw these comments before I allowed myself to enter a course with her.

Agreed, she gives work, which is not a bad thing, but if want help understanding something, her response: "What do you not understand? You take this, you do that, and it equals this?" or like she emphasizes at the beginning of the semester, "Go to the math lab". The math lab is good advice but you also sit in class for a purpose too.

She hardly involves the students, she only tends to the computer textbook, she never pauses to recap concepts, and she doesn't invite student involvement. She tends to be offended and develop a scentful attitude when she's proven wrong about something, she blazes through each lesson so fast it's hard to understand or keep track of what she's saying

She doesn't communicate or ensure understanding of concepts and theories with students and repeats only the textbook word for word and not genuine personal engagement. Her negative, dismissive, and ignorant attitude definitely doesn't help to yield a positive and conducive learning environment. Negativity is mentally and emotionally degrading

It's perfectly okay to give work, but you have to be willing to critically teach. Otherwise, what's the point? Holy, I've never seen a professor with such rude manners, too, and I normally don't say that about professors. Her negativity also causes her to give off an unapproachable vibe. Don't waste your money on such a miserable, sham professor.

She is very lecture heavy and talks extremely fast to the point where its hard to understand her. She moves from topic to topic while most of the class doesn't even know what's going on.

If anyone is thinking about taking a course with Gabriela Sprague, DON'T. She is the worst educator I have ever had. She is not clear about anything and is not helpful in class whats so ever. She is also incredibly rude when emailed and she is not approachable in class. She is the worst.

Makes mistakes easily in class when you try to correct her she simply says you are wrong. Gives way too much homework. Is hard to get in contact with outside of class.

She's always lecturing her students about how unambitious and unadventurous young people are. That may be true for some outside her class, however definitely not the students who sit before her. This is community college, not public education K-12. You're only there if you want to be there. There's no law requiring a college education. Discouraging

I think she hates teaching and hates students. Beware. Do not take her.

This class is an endurance test. The subject isn't the difficult part. It's her apathy. There might as well not even be a teacher. Never try asking her for help, because she can't stand surprises. Asking leads to her ghosting or ridiculing you. You're largely teaching yourself. A pretty common theme. Homework was the smallest issue, by far.

Doesn't care about her students at all, not understanding whatsoever, & very inflexible. Extremely insensitive & rude in her emails. No extension even in the case of a tragic family death (didn't even extend condolences). Made me work 3x as hard for the grade I needed. Even used attendance against me when it's not mandatory in her syllabus.

Disrespectful, doesn't give any care for her students and what they are going through. Brookdale is a shame for having her still as a professor.

This professor has given up on teaching and its obvious. She doesn't explain anything clear. Better off taking her as distance education because you basically teach yourself in person anyways. Don't take this class. I WARNED YOU! also none of the homework on canvas matches with the assignments she gives in class.

If you do poorly with tests, do NOT take a class with Professor Sprague. She does not seem to respect accommodations as granted and with this class grade being 80% tests, that's a huge problem. Mine were not granted properly due to communication breakdowns, causing me to nearly fail this class. Would drop out instead of dealing with her again.

This professor is by far the worst teachers I have ever dealt with. She is extremely rude. She does not extension even when I was dealing with family death, nor did she give her condolences. She is the least bit understanding and is extremely rude over email. I would never take her class not even because of the work but because of her as a teacher.

Please do not take, she cannot teach. She had a sub come in and he was much better, I learned more from him than I did from her any day

Did not explain how to do homework, heavy accent, hard material that you have to teach yourself

Worst professor I've ever had at Brookdale. Had incomplete material uploaded to canvas. Tests are way harder than homework. She has an accent and is difficult to follow. Best of all, she responds rudely via email. Avoid her at all costs.

Professor Sprague does not care about her students success and will not accommodate for you. Very test heavy. If you do not pass a test it is hard to get your grade back up from it. Work does not match quizzes or homework.

She is by far the worst professor I have ever had. She asks questions about material on tests that we have not covered yet. She is defensive and unhelpful in office hours. She is disorganized to the extreme. She does not answer emails if she doesn't feel like it. She does not understand the material she is teaching. It's actually shameful.

Would've rated higher as she does drop the five worst homework grades by the end of the semester, but I genuinely haven't had a worse experience with a teacher. Very rude when answering questions of my classmates. Teaches formulas in a very complicated way. Lecture is painful to sit through, had to self-learn with online resources after her class.