Testimonials From Students

"Roberta Gottfried is a highly intelligent, perceptive, and beloved instructor. She is consistent, dedicated, passionate, enthusiastic, cheerful, and a pleasure to work with. She has incredible creative energies, and a refreshing idealism, tempered only enough to accomplish what needs to be done. Her skills for demystifying complex concepts and explaining mundane subject matter using interesting and identifiable examples makes a huge difference to her students. As a teacher, she is, in the opinion of her students, "awesome"....and I believe that her students would be extremely upset to hear that she is to leave Tucson soon. "
--Sharo McClintock, VP/Regional Manager, SCI, Incorporation, Student in Roberta's Interpreter Training Class

"Roberta Gottfried's interpreting class was one of the most truly useful courses I've ever taken, far better and more intelligent than most of what we call "school". It put me in touch with local immigrant worlds I hadn't known existed, and introduced me to the depth and complexity within a very difficult skill. Roberta Gottfried also happens to be a model of what teaching ought to be like: she lives the principles and practices which she teaches. Energetic, resourceful, scrupulous, and encouraging, taking responsibility on herself for the performances of her students, she inspired me to fine-tune my language skills to a level of competence I had not previously thought possible."

---Michael K. Henderson, student in the Spring 2002 Pima College Class