Writing in the Discipline, Course Initiative, Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Composition Program, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ
Established discipline-focused, writing-intensive courses in each major: collaborated with select faculty across the college to convert existing courses within each program to courses structured with intensive writing requirements; designed Learning Outcomes for WID courses; offer workshops for WID faculty for continual development of composition pedagogy.
Common Book Program, Fall 2012-Spring 2014
Department of English and Foreign Languages, Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ
Worked with committee to draft, choose and implement common text into first-year learning program; integrated text into all first-year composition courses.
First-Year Composition Courses, Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Composition Program, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ
Redesigned first-year composition courses into sequential sections; established Learning Outcomes for each course with suggested texts and assignments aimed toward course pedagogical consistency; piloted new curriculum for assessment purposes with goals to establish into core curriculum; created teacher’s guide for all instructors teaching newly designed first-year composition course curriculum.
Adjunct Instructor Hiring, Spring 2013
Composition Program, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ
Rebuilt adjunct instructor pool teaching all first-year composition courses through final interview process; created online forum for teaching community; provided full-day workshop for introducing new composition curriculum with continual developmental workshops offered throughout the academic year.
Director, Building Bridges, Spring 2010, 2011
The Geneva Partnership Program, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Worked with the Center for Teaching and Learning to coordinate a service-learning program with the Geneva City School District.
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In WRRH100: Writer’s Seminar, HWS students worked one-on-one in mentoring fifth and sixth graders. Meeting weekly, students created and managed online blogs, which included incorporating various forms of multi-media components and writing discussion. project blog
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In WRRH322: Adolescent Literature, HWS students present in mentoring roles to high school students. Meeting weekly, students created discussion groups based on shared texts that are read and critically analyzed both through verbal and written forms. project blog
Director, Roots to Wings Program, Spring 2009
Writing and Rhetoric Program, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Pilot Program: Worked to coordinate a service-learning program with the Geneva City School District. Integrated with WRRH100: Writer’s Seminar I, HWS students worked one-on-one in mentoring fifth graders from two different district schools. Meeting weekly, students created and managed online blogs, which included incorporating various forms of multi-media components and writing discussion. project blog
Digital Writing Lead Cohort, Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Department of English: Digital Writing Collaborative, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Original team member of group collaborative which worked to integrate digital technologies into departmental composition program; participated in semester-long practicum that researched and discussed issues of technology and digital texts; presented and participated in various workshops focusing on pedagogical and technological issues relating to the digital classroom; consulted and mentored incoming instructors into group collaborative.
