How's my Driving?

So, I asked for midterm teaching evaluations from my students today. Since this is my first time teaching a class, I gave them a pretty long evaluation to fill out: What do you like/disklike most about this class, what do you want more/less of, do you feel comfortable participating in discussions, do you do the readings, and what do you like/dislike about my teaching style. All three of my classes have very distinct personalities and work ethics, and it definitely came out in the evaluations. My 9:30 class, by far the best of the three, gave me glowing reviews. My 12:30 class, which is full of slackers and whiners, still gave me pretty good reviews overall, but with much more complaining. Here's a summary of all three classes' responses:

• - They enjoy my very laid back classroom environment & teaching style
  
• - They think I'm easily approachable
  
• - They wish I would grade their assignments faster (lawl, not happening!)
  
• - Most of them actually do the reading, except when they're really swamped
  
• - They enjoy it most when we use discussion time to look really in-depth into a particular piece of music
  
• - Some want more music theory, some want less music theory 
  
• - Some want me to talk more, some want me to talk less
  
• - They like how I play random music as they get to class in the morning
  
• - They all hate the long awkward pauses when I ask a question and no one has an answer. (way to win, guys)
  
• - A few of them want more extra credit (lawl!)
  
• - Several of them wish I would basically teach them the test (quote: "I don't like discussing things not about tests/quizzes")
  
• - They want me to spend more time reinforcing the week's lecture material (this is a good idea, but the professor gives us brand new material that she specifically wants up to cover in discussion. Very frustrating)
  
• - In general they want more listening examples, some even want to do more singing in class
  
• - They want more ties to modern day music (again, I'd love to, but I'm bound by the stupid syllabus ><;;)
• - They wish we could cover some world music, too (again, wish I could)
  

There is one thing I know for sure I really need to work on, and fast. I think I may actually be subconsciously treating my 12:30 class differently from the others because they're my worst group. That needs to stop. The kids in that class tended to think I was more uptight and unapproachable, whereas the other classes said that they loved the exact OPPOSITE about me! I'm obviously doing something quite wrong in that section, so I'm really going to try to fix that

And now, of course, we need some of the winning quotes:

Do the reading? - "Yes, of course, who not? It's homework, it's required." ((Hooray!!))

Like the least? - "asking dumb questions about the music. I don't care how it makes me "feel", it's a subjective not an objective question. If I wanted another subjective class I'd take creative writing not music." ((Oi, music is subjective by nature, like all art!))

Like the least? - "I wish we would spend less time on Gregorian Chant." (Amen! Got this comment several times.)

Teaching style - "Megan's great. One of the best TAs at this school." (Haha, I just had to include this one for the ego stroke. I know it isn't true, but it feels nice anyway!)

Here's hoping I can make some changes for the better!