Jacqueline Bird - Northern Michigan University

Professor: Jacqueline Bird
Department: Biology
College: Northern Michigan University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: BI110
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Very lively, like a cup of coffee in the morning
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Fast paced class. Hard work. Attendance is necessary for the first few weeks because you have partner quizzes, but you should go-it really helps. Took this class twice and only raised my grade from C-C+. Very helpful if you go to her, but talks quickly and kind of goes off on rants a lot. Nice woman, hard professor.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This class is hard, but you can't put that on the teacher. My only issue with the teacher was she took her sweet time grading exams. Very few people will probably receive the grade they wanted, but if you are determined you can "pass" this class.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She moves extremely fast! BEST class I have ever taken!!! If you like a challenge, and love to take exams that truly challenge what you know, not what you memorized this is a class you will wish went on forever. not many people passed...
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She doesn't deserve to be rated so harshly, she's a good teacher, who expects a lot. Some people don't realize this isn't high school, YOU HAVE TO WORK.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Her class is extremely hard, make sure to take the lab it's worth 40% of your final grade and is an easy A. To pass her exams, you really need to pay more attention to what she says in class, not just the book and they're not about memorizing the material, it's about a general knowledge of it, so you really have to be committed to studying
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
TERRIBLE professor. If you take this class be prepared to teach yourself everything. And even if you are capable of teaching yourself...when you get to the exams she will test on something completely different anyway. I am getting A's in every other class and am perfectly capable of comprehending the subject, but the exams are completely random.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She's a terrible teacher. The material that is covered is not difficult at all; however, she doesn't test you on the material. I'm still not entirely sure what she did test on? It was a mind game basically. Don't take this class if you can help it. Lab is long and tedious, elementary type stuff again.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: BI221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She enjoyed drilling students with questions first thing in the morning. It's tough and irritating, but it really forces you to learn. Her lab is the best part, allowing you to be independent and discover things in your dissecting. She is very humble and energetic, but she is very tough, even with take-home tests and an open note final.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: BI221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Bird gets an unwarranted bad rap. People who give her bad reviews are just plain lazy and don't want to work. She LOVES biology and doesn't believe in mediocrity; something many Northern professors seem to be OK with. She's a tough teacher but will also help you if you take time to visit her. She's tough, but you'll actually LEARN something.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: BIO203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This professor is useless. She knows her material but cant teach worth a darn. This course has a VERY HIGH failure rate. (80%) If you need this class, take it from Marc Labeau at Bay College in Escanaba or travel down to Green Bay, WI one day a week and take the class with Dawn Madl or Scott Seidl. Once you completed the class, transfer it to NMU
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: BIO221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Literally failed 100% of the class on the 1st exam (take home exam). Let us redo some of it to get some points back but gave us a "revised," version of the original rubric. Basically she graded us on the "revised," rubric, not the one we were provided with. 1st lab exam is about the same, but those get easier as you go, they will be what saves you.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She really thinks shes something because she used to be a Vet, give me a break and learn how to TEACH. Hope you know everything you will be "learning" or are very good at self-teaching.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Lives up to her reputation as one of the worst professors on campus. A good student with an interest in the subject will easily be disheartened by her teaching and testing. Northen should not have this professor.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She expects you to know the basic material of the class on the very first day in which she builds on each and every day after. Therefore, if you don't teach yourself what you are paying to be taught, you will not pass her class. Its obvious that she loves biology but I don't think she realizes how much she makes her students despise it.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She is very hard. She likes to trick you on tests. I don't know why a teacher would want to trick you, you would think she would want her students to do good! The only thing that I like is if you got an A, you deserve it. No one can walk into a test, not do the reading and pass. Remember its not the right answer, its HER answer.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
So so so hard!! I can't keep up! She is brilliant but has a hard time passing her knowledge on to the students. For nursing students, I recommend the lab. I didn't take it because it isn't required and right now I am regretting it. I wish someone would have told me that the lab would be helpful! She asks questions on exams that she didn't cover!
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Bird is very driven and passionate about her work. She cares if you care. I miss Medical Micro a lot. It was a pain in the ass while I was taking it but now I realize how much I learned. Nursing majors be warned!! you should study up on your biology before taking this class then you won't retake it like most of the nursing majors in my class!
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: BI221
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She's very tough. She definitely makes you think about things that aren't discussed in the book, but things that she expects you to understand from the basics discussed in the book. The class is not impossible to pass.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: BI203
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
She explains a lot of material with the word "stuff". What is this "stuff"? Worst teacher at NMU, take BI 203 at another school. She seems to like to feel more intelligent over the students with her exams, making them near impossible to pass, yet she can't answer a question without finding the answer in the text.
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