Robert Dougherty Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tn, Us

Nashville, Tn

* Strengthened program and increased enrollment by 66% over first two years.* Developed vertical curriculum to develop skills needed for the German AP exam beginning from week one of German I through to German IV.* Increased involvement in extracurricular cultural activities.* Initiated a world languages soccer tournament to promote interest in foreign language study.* Led student groups on an exchange program with our partner school, the Humboldt-Schule in Wiesbaden, through our individual exchange and as an official chaperone with the American Association of Teachers of German.* Coached three sports in the MBA middle school athletic program: Cross Country, Soccer, and Track and Field.

Assisted in evaluation of sources for questions and item writing for the AP German Language and Culture exam.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Table Leader for AP German Language and Culture exam scoring. Backgrading and supervision of multiple readers.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Reader/Grader for AP German Language and Culture Exams.

Department of Comparative Literature• Redesigned and introduced new content to a course on the development of literary humor.• Fostered large group discussions for 55 undergraduate students and maintained their interest through humor, organized presentations and captivating material.• Evaluated student performance and encouraged focused reading of sometimes very difficult texts.• Enhanced student abilities to understand and systematically analyze complex texts.• Guided student writing performance and assisted their continued improvement in terms of organization, idea and topic generation, creativity, style and the ability to clearly and concisely put their words down on paper.

• Rebuilt and redesigned the second year German program at Susquehanna from the ground up by choosing new textbooks, designing new lessons, introducing new materials and a new course format.• Designed original teaching materials to enhance student learning.• Organized off-campus speakers, venues and topics for a campus-wide speaker series to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.• Counseled students on their academic performance, encouraging many to pursue further studies in language and helped coordinate their interests in studying abroad.• Achieved above average retention rates for students continuing on to a third year of language study and encouraged especially talented students into majoring or minoring in German.

Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures• Taught in a range of multi-sectional beginning German courses, as well as independently developed, directed and re-designed the fourth semester course in German for two years.• Focused on instructing students in compositon and conversation in German, enhancing their writing skills not only in German, but in English as well.• Created new course materials to enhance multiple German courses.• Designed a series of lessons for third semester German teachers using multimedia in a technology supported environment

• Managed a computer and multimedia lab for language learning, administrated 25 computers on a Novell network and supervised undergraduate student assistants.• Served as a technology advisor for a conference on Holocaust studies.• Programmed an online gradebook using perl and CGI for students and presented CGI programming skills to other university instructors at a faculty conference.

• Taught beginning German courses and independently developed material to assist students learning the language.

Germersheim, Germany

• Developed a course to teach basic HTML skills for German university students studying to be translators.• Aided translation students in developing skills to translate for the world wide web.

Continued Study At The Ph.D. Level (Non-Degree), German Studies

Minor in Literary Criticism, Theory and Aesthetics Comprehensive Examination completed in May 2004

M.A.T, German Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, German Studies

German

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