Teaching Experience

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Courses Taught:

• ENG 1301: Written Argument and Research 1
• ENG 1302: Written Argument and Research 2
• ENG 100: Introduction to College Reading and Writing

Courses Independently Designed and Taught:

• ENG 333: Honors Writing Nonfiction - Created the theme "Writing You," in which students engaged with multiple types of memoirs (written, video, music, photography, podcast, webtexts, etc.). Throughout the semester, students kept a personal blog, responding to the readings and experimenting with writing their own stories. This culminated in a large final project in which students chose one style of writing or multimodal composing in order to share their personal stories.
• ENG 406: Adolescent Literature - Focused on North American and Canadian Indigenous literature written for children/young adults. Students focused on critical reading, performing research, and forming their own unique connections and ideas between the two, ultimately resulting in a conference presentation.

Courses Taught:

• ENG 3313: Children's Literature - A  children's literature survey course offered to English and Elementary Education majors. Although the materials were predetermined, I did create unique lectures, assignments, and course activities. 
• ENG 3363: Creative Writing - An upper-level creative writing course where students read and experiment with writing across multiple genres. In this course, the assignments were predetermined, but I chose and organized the course materials.

In private, one-on-one settings, I worked with students in reading, writing, and language skills with students of all ages, ranging from college students writing essays to elementary-aged children learning to read.

As an undergraduate student, I assisted two long-time and experienced English professors, Dr. Danny Alexander and Dr. Amy Alexander, with their courses. I managed grades, assignments, and records for multiple classes. I communicated with faculty, staff, and students on their behalf, worked one-on-one with students who needed assistance, and picked up valuable teaching skills. Although not a teacher myself at the time, Drs. Danny and Amy Alexander both personally shared their wisdom and teaching experience and laid the foundation for what would become my personal teaching philosophy.