Mrs. Andress is Beautiful, sweet, caring, and understanding teacher. She always understands if someone has messed up something on accident, and she doesn’t get angry at the student. She always cares if a student is having a bad day, and she makes sure that student has a good time in the class. She has fun plans everyday, and she very happy to our faces everyday. She makes many good comments when a student gets something correct. I have to say she is by far one of the best teachers in all of Oklahoma. And Mrs.Andress is definitely a sweet, amazing, cheerful, happy, and, smart teacher. She disserves any award she is getting, because she is the best.
I have known Alona Andress since she had moved to the USA a couple of decades ago. At the time I was an Associate Professor of Russian at TCC and we offered many levels of Russian so I needed help.Therefore I recommended Alona to work as an adjunct at TCC.
The students were very happy with her teaching and I of course trained her first and then I observed her classes.
She is very organized and she always has a plan to follow but at the same time she can be flexible if something does not go quite as scheduled. Alona is also very enthusiastic about Russian language and Russian culture as well as is very knowledgeable in both areas. When we had Russian club meetings and Global festival( annually) at TCC she always volunteered her time even though it was not her job description.
I would highly recommend Mrs. Andress for this nomination-she definitely deserves it.
My acquaintance with Ms. Andress goes back to the last year of Wilson Middle School before it was dissolved by Project Schoolhouse. My youngest daughter applied to attend Wilson because it was a middle school language magnet and offered an array of foreign languages such as Russion, German and Chinese, I believe, and she wanted to study Russian. Disappointingly, her schedule configuration did not allow her to take the class. Fortunately, we appealed to Ms. Andress and begged her for lessons, to which she agreed, although it would require staying after school an extra 20-30 minutes/week. Her teaching method is discliplined, fun and effective. My daughter and I were very grateful to Ms. Andress for her giving spirit which allowed my daughter to learn some Russian! Congratulations to Ms. Andress for this nomination which she so deserves!
Ms. Andress is a complete professional in the classroom. She is someone the students can always count on for consistency and dedication. She is a joy to work with as her colleagues can always count on her to assist when her expertise is helpful or when we need a favor. One of my favorite memories of seeing her in action was when we had a multi-culture exhibit and her display was so engaging with beautiful pictures, artifacts and even her dress expressed her culture. I know she impacts her students’ lives in a positive way every day. Her students always speak of her in glowing terms and enjoy the subject because of the passion she brings to teaching the Russian language.
Exceptional professional and personal qualities Mrs. Andress possesses combined with the dedication, love and passion with which she teaches the subject to her students create captivating, stimulating and engaging learning environment in her classroom.
It is so vividly expressed in her students' comments filled with admiration and gratitude.
Although Alona has many years of extensive teaching experience on many levels of education system, including higher education at universities, what makes her a true expert of her field is the genuine love for the job she does so masterfully.
That is why her talent, efforts and skillset are recognized and admired by her students, their parents and her colleagues.
Mrs. Andress is Beautiful, sweet, caring, and understanding teacher. She always understands if someone has messed up something on accident, and she doesn’t get angry at the student. She always cares if a student is having a bad day, and she makes sure that student has a good time in the class. She has fun plans everyday, and she very happy to our faces everyday. She makes many good comments when a student gets something correct. I have to say she is by far one of the best teachers in all of Oklahoma. And Mrs.Andress is definitely a sweet, amazing, cheerful, happy, and, smart teacher. She disserves any award she is getting, because she is the best.
Ms.Andress is a wonderful teacher she always makes our days in class vary interesting ,and she always challenges me. I love how she is always in a good mood at school ,and she speaks to us as if we could tell her anything we wish. she is vary honest with us ,and expects the vary best of her students. Just as I expect nothing less than the best from her as she does us . I’m vary blessed to be her student.
I think mrs.andress is a very sweet and nice teacher she is always encouraging and always says nice things about everyone it’s really cool (BEST TEACHER 10/10). Whenever I’m in class I can see why everyone loves her she makes teaching fun and challenging really awesome. Mrs.andress in my opinion deserves this.
Andress makes everything fun she is always counting on you to do better she is organized and she sweet she’s someone u would want to look up to she makes sure your alright and that she’s always here she teaches wonder full she’s really funny and u learn a lot of Russian and you do projects.sheis the most wonderful person.
This is one of the best class I ever been in . One is that I feel so safe like I can be myself and I think that I one of the best thing about this class . If I had a dollar for being happy in my Russian class I would be rich . I have no words to say how much I love this class . Will Roger is so lucky to have ms. Andress and I’m so lucky to be in her amazing class.
This class is super fun and I learn a lot this is my second year and I enjoy it a lot great teacher.
This class is the best, our teacher pushes us to do our best at anything we put our mind to, she loves her students!!!
She is an amazing teacher. I have learned so much in her class and she makes learning enjoyable. She knows how to explain difficult parts of the language well to me and I appreciate that. Overall she’s a great teacher and so kind.
Ms Andress is a very sweet teacher. Her class is very fun. We learn how to speak her language, it’s very exciting. She is very pretty lady. Always make student smile when we walks down the hallway. Everyone loves her class.
I could not be more proud of Alona. She has worked so very hard to accomplish her teaching goals. She has a positive effect on everyone's life she comes in contact with.
