This portfolio highlights aspects of my teaching including my teaching philosophy, student projects and feedback, sample assignments and classroom materials, and other professional materials relating to teaching.
ENGL 108: Accellerated First-Year Composition: Using the rhetorical situations/real texts syllabus approach, students examine the rhetorical contexts of their own chosen discipline. Major assignments include a rhetorical analysis of two texts (one from inside and outside of their field), a profile of their field, a writing guide for undergraduates in their field, and a researched argument on a controversial topic in their field.
ENGL 505M: Teaching First-Year Composition: I am one of two technology mentors for our first-year composition teacher training program. We work closely with the teachers new to the program to integrate technology into their own classrooms.
While teaching in the Introductory Composition Program, two of my students won three awards at the ENGL 106 Showcase - Best Display, People's Choice, and Best Reflection. You can see their work in the “Examples of Student Work” area.
I was also honored with recieving two Quintillian Awards for Excellence in teaching, including one for being ranked in the top 20% of instructors in the FYC program.