Here are some very encouraging words that one of my distance education students (in the CERTESL--Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language--program at the U. of S.) wrote in a recent e-mail:

"I have to admit that I didn't enter the course with much enthusiasm, but I found it to be one of my favourites. I know a lot of that is due to your teaching/tutoring style and a lot of the personal contact you gave us. I just want to say thank you for all your personal investment in us as students and for taking extra time to answer all my questions. I hope to some day be as great an ESL tutor/teacher as you have been a course instructor."