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Shawsville Middle School

Coaching teachers in English Language Arts best practices, working with reading data across multiple schools, and crafting professional development materials for county wide presentations.

Blacksburg Middle School

Radford, Virginia

Working with the College of Graduate Studies and Research to aid faculty as they write internal and external research grants. Editing grants for grammatical issues, parallelism, and requirements noted of RFPs. Writing sample letters of support and letters of collaboration to send to cooperations working with faculty.

Radford, Virginia

Instructor of rhetoric and literature who aids students in drafting exceptional writing and facilitates in the understanding of multiple forms of literary texts. Creating and teaching courses such as Essentials of Written and Oral Communication, Literary Texts and Contexts, Advanced Written and Oral Communication, British and Commonwealth Literature, and University 100 (an entry-level course designed to help students acclimate to college life). Mentor in the Graduate Teaching Fellow Program, assisting first and second-year graduate students as they teach freshmen-level writing courses and participate in a team-based community that inspires teaching excellence. Working with fellow mentors to evaluate former program meetings topics, construct new meeting topics, enhance the mentoring program as a whole, and plan out a three-day, intensive orientation program for each year. Evaluating graduate students' teaching within the classroom with multiple visits. Critiquing weekly lesson plans from graduate students to determine effective teaching of required material.

Blacksburg, Virginia

Instructor in the English Department teaching ENGL 1105 and 1106, helping students develop writing and communication skills necessary for work in various degree programs.

Radford, Virginia

Teaching entry-level writing courses while developing lesson plans and adapting various materials from mentors and peers to aid my teaching. Organized, led, and oversaw multiple program meetings with peers to members and mentors of the Graduate Teaching Writing Program.

Graduate Professional Writing Certificate, Professional, Technical, Business, And Scientific Writing

Master’S Degree, English Literature (British And Commonwealth), 4.0

Activities and Societies: Graduate Teaching Fellow Mentoring Program Member Published Poet, Radford University Literary Magazine Exit 109.

Bachelor’S Degree, English Literature (British And Commonwealth), Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Medieval Renaissance Conference, Participant Sept. 2008, Chair Sept. 2009; COPLAC Research Symposium Conference.

General Studies

College preparatory courses during high school through dual credit courses to achieve 49 credit hours of college work prior to high school.