Always willing to help

Take this class as a freshman! Teaches you what a real college research paper should be, and you will need this skill!!!!! Lotso f the computer stuff was common knowledge to most students but near the end it was all new stuff. Easy, only 1 paper!!!

She is so nice, really helps on all assignments. Gives review drills as attendence, so you have to show up. A little boring but such an easy class.

Very nice person and always willing to help you! You will write an research paper and she will help you as long as you ask for it!

Very easy, except for one big paper and presentation. Feels a lot like high-school. Familiarizes freshmen with university services. Come to class, ask for help; she is more than willing to get you on the right track. Nice lady and enthusiastic.

The most boring class ever. Treats you like youre 10, but thats not always a bad thing. One huge paper and a group project..thats about it. Not a very hard class. Midterm & Final were a joke. Shes kind of weird, but overall shes nice.

a very nice lady who goes out of her way to be friendly with everyone, she's a good teacher who knows her stuff (its an intro class). Everything is easy, the paper takes work but is not hard, highly recommended!!!

she is the best teacher

Very nice lady. If you don't like to attend class then don't take it. Review drills every day. One big paper and presentation. Web site - easy. Overall an easy class. If you fail it then you didn't try at all.

EASY CLASS but you still learn a lot! such a nice lady...so helpful. mid term, final, one paper, and a presentation. go to class and get points just for showing up and having a pulse.

I was shocked to get a B because I always get As on papers. The paper is harder than you think at first. Just make sure you go to class EVERY DAY and follow directions for the paper.

great teacher! learned a lot in her class! take her if you can.

Very clear, very lenient, very helpful. Too bad she was boring as hell and liked to micro-manage assignments. This class assumes you know nothing about technology, and will give step-by-step instructions for OPENING A FILE. I digress. Nice lady, EASY A

The class was really easy if you kept up with what little work she gives...make sure you don't skip class because she takes off points everytime!

Helpful, and extremely friendly. Easy class, very little homework. Relatively easy grader. Our class always got out like 30-45 minutes early. Definitely recommend.

Nice lady, should be teaching elementary school though. Treats you like a little kid. Tough/picky grader on the paper but everything else is really easy.

If you are willing, you can learn a LOT about college-level writing. Don't whine about your grades because you'd have to be brain dead to not understand.

OMG! She looks up and READS all of your sources! This lady must never sleep. If you are having trouble though she will spend alot of time with you if you just ask

Knows her stuff but way to picky and anal. This class should be a breeze if you know anything about computers and writing a research paper. This is a required course...take it with someone else unless you need to learn the material. If your a tranfer...do not take her!

This class was so easy it bored me! She talks to you like you are a child though and that can be very very very annoying!!!!

Super nice lady. I learned stuff I never knew. Good way to learn the University's resources

Make sure u do well on the paper, its 30% of your grade...u can bs it thought (i got 100%). the mid term and final are really easy. I learned a lot about what u can use in the library

She will tell you that you NEED a flash drive, but you don't. Its helpful, but you can e-mail yourself anything you do in class

istc201 rocks

OMG! She is really nice but does talk to you like your in kindergarten! and it is really an easy class. But DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS ONCE A WEEK cuz it just makes it that much harder .attendance is required and once a week just sucks! we spent 15 weeks writing a research paper. If you have to take this teacher make it more than once a week.

Honors version of ISTC201. She's extremely nice, does treat you like a elementary school kid though. Really easy class. Just do the assignments the way she wants it and show up and it's an easy A.

she is so sweet and helpful however she wants all her papers on time...no excuses.....

Such a nice lady. Really, she's great. Just do the work (it's easy), and you'll get an A. I don't think she talks to her students like they're in elementary school...she's just a really nice and warm person. Really wants you to get something out of the class, and will help cater assignments to you, even if you're not an ED major. She's great.

She has very reasonable expectations for an honors class and makes materials very clear for tests and before assignments are due. I can't lie about the class though... painfully boring and useless. It is almost a given that you will do well with all of the drills and busy work. Don't waste time on reading, it isn't tested and doesn't help much.

I don't know how ppl can say it was easy. Yeh, the drills were but the paper was hard. She is a tough grader. Ask for help if u need it cuz she's picky as hell.

She was very nice; although her class was dreadfully boring. Her assignments were fairly easy, just follow directions precisely. If you have an issue with a grade, email her; she's extremely lenient. Overall, the class was a breeze; a piece of cake!

She is sooo sweet...She tries her best to work with you even if your doing bad in the class. Recommended extra credit for me.

She is a nice and fair professor. Her class is pretty easy, but I would not recommend taking the class once a week on fridays. You have to be there, or she will take points off your grade. That's how my grade wound up being lower. Still did pretty well though. All in all, an easy class and easy professor.

She seems so nice and all but if you paste from WWW she will give u a F for the whole course so watch out that happened 2 someone in my group. I was kind of happy to see him get nailed tho.

Easy class, basically your grade is a VERY easy paper (I got a 99.5%), and 2 tests. I didn't do the readings, but you only use them for warm ups, and you can look at the book, so that is really easy. She is a sweetheart and likes to talk to you. Got out of class early almost every time.

The easiest class I have ever taken. If you show up, she might as well hand you an A. The class is boring, but if you're looking for an easy A, take it. She is a really sweet lady and she makes it practically impossible to fail.

Tries to keep class interesting. Your grade is basically based on the paper, which you can rewrite if you got a bad score. You shouldn't if you follow the rubric. Nicest lady, had a whole conversation with her outside of class. Definitely take her.

Doesn't make you buy the textbook. Can get very particular about certain things but its not too bad. You have to take online tests and do in class stuff but your grade is mainly just the paper you spend the whole semester working on. She is always willing to give extra help. Take her.

Nicest teacher ever! She teaches you how to actually use APA and the class is SO easy. Take her!

The content was all common sense, yet the prof took it very seriously. Overall: Weekly quizzes online, 6-10 page paper with a follow-up presentation, not too much homeowork, mandatory attendance, no textbook, super friendly and accepting prof. She's awesome...the class is just DULL. If you're a decent writer and are good a comprehension. easy A.

The coursework overall is pretty easy, however she is a picky grader. She is very nice and has good intentions, but she talks to the class like we are in elementary school. It got annoying.

OMG! Don't pay any attention to below. We were so happy when she dropped! She was a total moron. This prof is pretty hard, but she'll help you if you ask for it. The paper is really hard, tho!

Nice lady, picky grader. I didn't mind the pickiness though because she taught me how to write an awesome paper in APA format. I know exactly how it should be written and never have any errors on my future papers. Hard grader but it is well worth it if you want to write a successful paper in college.

I thought she was great. If you are college material at all you will learn stuff that will help you in other classes. My whole floor comes to me now for help finding sources. But we all know there were some idiots in the class...

She helped me alot. I'm not a great writer but I try hard and she met with me every week. Really she kept me from dropping out

Love her. She let me tailor the project to my own interests because I am a senior. That way I could take it a little further than the rest of the class. There was a good bit of whining among some Freshmen who thought they should get an A for having a pulse. Nice to see SOME standards at Towson.

Pushes us to do good work. Doesn't tolerate crap.

She is very nice, but treats you like your in elementary school at times. The assignments are really easy, but the class was not what I had expected, in a negative way. Easy enough class with a nice enough professor.

Topic: Currnet Issues in Education, Extreme Teaching. Obenshain is the nicest professor I have ever had. I LOVED her class. The topic was new and exciting to me because I am not an education major. I learned all the basics about writing a research paper. No way no to pass with an A. Take her!

She is a very sweet lady, but the class was a killer. There was a lot of homework, and weekly quizzes. I may have learned some stuff from the class, but I dreaded going to that class. Try to take a different TSEM if you can. I guess me not being an education major may be the reason as to why I was not a fan of the class.

boring class, she is really picky but a nice teacher. quizzes every week, spend the whole semester writing a paper and presentation.

She is the sweetest lady. But the class was not as easy as I expected it to be. She's a tough grader but show an effort and ask for help and you will succeed.

I was the only one in the class to get an A. It isn't that hard. You just have to do well on the online quizzes, put hard work into your research paper, and study for the midterm and final.

She is really nice and helpful. I learned a great deal about some of the controversies in education. It was a good intro to college-level writing too. She always posts grades each day so no surprises. Wish all my teachers would do that!

She is just so weird.. You have a research paper to write starting at the beginning of the semester and if you can figure out a good argument you want to make right off the bat you will be good.

LOVED Prof. Obenshain! Such a sweet lady, really cares about her students. Overall class material was not difficult. I definitely recommend her!!

She's the sweetest woman alive, class is actually worth going to. All assignments are in regards to the big research paper- if you follow her clearly written directions (no matter how bizarre they seem) then you will get an A. There are points from a ton of other things too, though, in case you mess up one or two assignments.

I love Ms. Obenshain, both inside and outside of the classroom! Her midterm and final questions are straight from the notes you take and she tells you what to study. The whole class is built around one research paper that she walks you through and even gives you a chance to redo. Just don't slack. It's easy to because she is nice, but put in work.

Attendance is mandatory, but you show up and then leave. You only need to stay if you have questions for her about your paper. Like any TSEM this class teaches you how to write a research paper. She has very clear guidelines that must be followed for her class. No other professor I have had cares about paper styles anymore as long as you write it.

Such a sweet lady. When I started this class I wanted to die because it's about education and I'm a Computer Science students with very little interest. But she makes you interested, I was able to relate my paper to my major, even though I probably did bad on it (I'm a bad writer haha). She gives a lot of work, but it's easy and occasionally cool.

Don't get fooled by her nice personality, she seems like a kindergarten teacher at first but she is such a tough grader. Really keep up with the work and the quizzes in order to do well. To do well on the essay go to the writing center and make sure all of your APA is on point. Interesting topic though

Make sure to pay attention and take lots of notes. Likes things specifically her way. Get ready to use your brain in the TSEM paper for correct format and lots of "critical thinking." Sweet lady, but can make TSEM harder than it needs to be. Attendance is a huge part of your grade as are the weekly quizzes.

All TSEMs require a long research paper. This is one of the hardest TSEMs and you really have to work for an A. You will learn how to write a research paper and APA format so that was great. really helped me for my other courses

She is super sweet and really clear about expectations. If you are nervous about research papers, you will learn to write them here. I'm not even an education major but I found it very interesting and she let me Incorporate my own major into my research topic. Don't slack, and you will learn.

High standards, so if you are used to sleeping in class you're gonna have a bad time. If you want to learn A LOT then you will love this TSEM. She is really passionate about education and you will be too if you are interested in teaching.

She expects a lot, but I was proud of the paper I wrote in the end. Hate to admit it, but I learned a lot.

Prof. Obenshain makes the class a little lighter by telling jokes and adding funny stories in. She does grade based on attendance so you should show up to every class. She has an online short quiz every week but you only have a 24 hour window to take it. You usually get out of class earlier every day though which is great.

Professor Obenshain is an easy professor until the "big paper" so be sure to be intuned with her. She's a nice lady but if you do not put citations in your paper correctly she will take off various point.

I have seen alot people give her very low and harsh rates but honestly she was a really great professor. She was a tough grader but she would make notes on what was wrong and let you turn it back in for credit. There are quizzes at the end of every week but they are 5 questions and are on the subject you learned that week. She is dedicated and nice

VERY tough grader. If you miss a small thing, you'll get points taken off. She is very strict when it comes to certain things, I failed an assignment because I forgot to attach the bibliography, she said she would not let me turn it in later, even if I genuinely forgot. She is caring and understanding overall but strict in coursework.

caring woman, but expects a lot out of her students in the first couple classes. big on group work and presentations. everything goes into a huge research paper, which she truly cares a lot about. she means well, but doesn't really teach information regarding the class topic.