Great, animated, clear ideas, he & brian =good, useful info being taught

really cares about his students helps them get the best grade possible great guy

great professor if you care!!

I thought he was fairly clear, and fairly easy.

Excellent course. Learned a lot.

Good course. Sid is fair and cares about how students are doing. He needs better jokes!

great prof! makes a required course bearable. too bad he doesn't teach other education courses.

Awesome class. Very informative, and lectures are very clear. Tests are pretty easy, if you study!

excellent class

extra-credit helps to gt a good grade

great class! Easy prof to get along with.

Good course and Sid is nice.

Great Lecturer (humor), challenging but fair tests, really knows his subject

Great professor. Lots of humor in lectures is and clear. Gives you study guides for exams which are great for tests. Lets you have a cheat sheet for exams. Must go to lectures though seeing tests are based 50% on lectures and what he covers in class is not in the textbook. Good class!

Was really helpful, and really wanted people to do well. Gave 3 different ways to get extra credit. Letures were fun and entertaining. Really nice guy.

lots of notetaking, exams are ok because of the cheat sheet, good class

Lectures are interesting and professor has great sense of humor. Allows for extra credit. Miltiple choice exams are based on situational thinking to identify terms. HE ALLOWS A CHEAT SHEET;exams are NOT cummulative. I'm glad he left Canada to teach in Maine, he has much to offer future teachers.

I thought Sid was really funny and interesting to listen to. He lets students make up study guides to use on tests, take quizzes online together and they only count for extra credit, and then he does a research project and if you participate he gives you more extra credit. Pretty easy and fun class.

sid is very helpful and funny

sid is very helpful. lectures are good if you read the chapter before class. allowed us to redo exams to get better score.

Really nice, informative and good prof. And he's damn funny, too. I really want to take another class with him.

Great class, great professor. One of the few classes I can honestly say I looked forward to attending.

for a psych class, very interesting. He tries to keep the atmosphere in class light. Spends a little too much time asking questions no one answers. Allowed one sheet of notes for the test which aren't all that tough anyway. Actually looked forward to going to class.

it was a good course. the exams were okay and the averages were in the 80s.

Funny guy and very helpful if you go see him and the exams are a breeze if you study. Allows a page of notes on the exams to.

Sid was very helpful and wanted students to succeed. Liked the clickers.

Sid knows what he's doing. Good class lectures and powerpoint presentations, explains things clearly and his exams are fair and straightforward MCQ. Definately worth taking this class.

This guy has some of the corniest jokes, but it usually keeps me awake through class, turn out the lights to watch a movie though and i'm out like a light. He's an excellent teacher, i just wish some of my other profs were like that.

I loved this professor. His jokes are corny, but enjoyable. He changed the tests this year where you are aloud to use only your book, but can write anything in it (all your class notes). He makes this really interesting and easy to understand. He'll explain things better if you ask. Great lectures and easy to read text. I highly recommend him!!!

funny and informative

He let us have the textbook AND notes for tests because he hates to see us get test anxiety. If you actually read what he wants you to and show up to class there is no way you can do poorly. His jokes are awful...but so what? He's still a very good professor that is concerned with the success of his students.

SO funny! he really enjoys what hes doing. He is constantally proding for involvement and makes lots of jokes. If you show up to class and take notes youll do good in his class. he lets you bring a cheat sheet and books to the exams. totally helps

Funny, fun teacher. He is really into the subject matter and knows his stuff. Very social and tries to engage the class as much as possible. Tests are open-book and you can bring a single page of hand-written notes. Attendance isn't mandatory, but is taken with clickers and you get extra credit for going to class. Couldn't sell the book back.

I dreaded this class - and it's most likely just because I'm not a morning person. But sitting through his lectures littered with horrible corny jokes was awful. BUT it was dreadfully easy. Go to lecture, take notes, read the book - make your cheat sheet for the test (he lets you bring one sheet of paper along with your book) and you'll do fine.

This class is pretty interesting and Sid does a great job making it fun and making the time go by! He also is helpful with note taking by giving you an outline to fill in each day. His power points are thourough and his extra credit system is excellent! :-) He's a great teacher!

I loved this class. The tests are easy if you study and the lectures are easy to follow.

I did not like this class. The tests are pretty hard and some of the questions are unclear, he is the only professor that teaches education psychology though so if you want to be a teacher you're pretty much stuck with him

This was a great class and Sid was a great teacher. He was very helpful and he has great study tips.

luv the class

The best class I had in my program.

He is really fair. I had a lot of trouble on the first exam and met with him and he gave me tips and I did increasingly better on the subsequent exams. I ended up with an A in the class. He also adds bonus points to your ending grade if you're in class when he takes random attendance.

Tough class but interesting and the readings are hard. Sid skewed all the exams which helped.

He is awesome!! His class was interesting and he's a real great guy. I want to take more classes with him. The seats in the class were so uncomfortable, I couldn't sit still. Take a cushion. You should attend class, but you can manage without.

I love this class. The exams are easy and the prof is really helpful if you need help.

Great class i learned a lot about making tests.

Go to class!!! He gives bonus points :) He thinks he's hilarious and has lots of lame jokes but hes a riot!

One of the best professors I've had at umaine. He is very helpful and cares about students. His tests are hard and he uses a lot of questions from the book. He gives points for attendance.

favorite class so far

I found this class to be more interesting than I thought I would. The exams are challenging but reflect what is covered in class. Sid was helpful when I asked questions and he keeps the class light and moving along.

I wish we had more classes with Sid. He rocks!

he's kind of a cornball, but very approachable and very smart.

If you attend class and take good notes you won't have to read much of the text. Very approachable,kind of funny in a corny kind of way. Believes each student is an individual and is graded that way.

SID IS THE BEST, love ya sid keep doin you

Sid is a fair professor. He tells you exactly what sections of the readings will be on the tests and his lectures coincide a lot with the book. Lots of videos in lecture and they can be boring or interesting depending on your taste. He gives extra credit too. You have to put the work in but, he's kind, fair, and a great teacher.

Best professor ever! Very respectful and willing to help if you put in the effort. Also gives extra credit!

Great professor. I wish I could take every class with Sid!

Great prof he's very helpful and works with students

Sid was an amazing professor. His lectures were very interesting and funny. He has a great sense of humor. I learned so many things in his class and was always very focused in what he was talking about. Attendance is not mandatory and the tests were all online and super easy! I would recommend this class to anyone for an easy A.

Educational Psych was super easy to take as a 3-week winter course online. All you do is read the chapters and take tests that are short answer questions. But reading the chapters does take up a lot of time, so be aware of that.

Sid is a great professor and such a love. This class was super easy all exams were online and it's an easy A.

Great professor and very funny, but you have to read the textbook and go to the lectures because the exam questions are based off of those.

I loved Sids class. He was so passionate about the subject matter, which made his course very enjoyable.

Sid makes a tough subject interesting.

Very helpful and easy to talk to

Sid is an amazing professor! He makes the lectures super interesting and always manages to throw in a few dad jokes. Hoping I can take another class with him. Lots of extra credit opportunities for going to lecture so I highly recommend!

It is a large class but very informative and the lectures are interesting

I found the class fun and the professor engaging. Real life examples made the concepts clear.

I really enjoyed taking 201 with Sid. He was very nice and never took attendance. You did not need to go to the lectures to do good. The tests were online and were open notes and open book. Your grade was based on these tests and a few open note optional bonus quizzes. I highly recommend this course.

This is the best course I have ever taken. Sid is amazing.