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Jan Anderson, Central Texas College
Jan Anderson has worked in several positions for Central Texas College for the last 25 years before her current position as Chair of the English as a Second Language (ESL) Department. From 1980 to 1985, as Assistant Dean of Operations for American Preparatory Institute, the college's pre-college program, she traveled to Korea and other sites to conduct training workshops for reading and ESL, made several presentations at the National Adult Basic Education Conference, and wrote two books for Cambridge publishers. Both texts made the Texas state literacy list of recommended texts for adult education. From 1985 to 1992, she traveled extensively throughout Asia as an Instructional Design Specialist and trainer working with instructors from different countries in developing ESL materials for government contracts. Since then, while teaching ESL, she has authored and implemented a reading course for the U.S. Naval Academy, coauthored a resource guide for FAST reading instructors who teach U.S. soldiers around the world, made numerous presentations for the National Association for International Educators and the Texas Community College Teacher's Association.
See Jan's: Course Usage | Teaching Tips | Syllabus (.pdf)
Carla Bradley, Ozarks Technical Community College
Carla Bradley is an adjunct English instructor with Ozarks Technical Community College. As an OTC instructor since 2004, she first taught at the main campus in Springfield, Missouri, then ventured to OTC’s Lebanon extension site and online teaching, and now teaches solely online. Her previous experience includes working as a part-time writer and editor in forensics. She also served as a graduate teaching assistant at Missouri State University while completing her master’s in English Education. Prior to completing her master’s, she taught English, speech, and theater with Springfield Public Schools for five years. Her bachelor’s in English, Speech, and Theater Education is also from MSU.
See Carla's: Syllabus (.doc)
Randi Brummett
California State University Bakersfield
Bio to come.
See Randi's: Syllabus (.doc)
Deborah Fontaine, Northwest Florida State College
Photo and bio to come.
See Deborah's: Syllabus (.doc)
Chuck Gonzalez,
Central Florida Community College
Chuck Gonzalez is native Floridian currently living and working in North Central Florida. He has been an educator in Florida schools for over thirty-four years. He earned his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Miami and his master's degree in English from Florida International University . His career as a teacher began in the Miami-Dade County Pubic Schools where he taught high school English and other subjects. Interning and working in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, he gained experience in both high schools and middle schools, including a magnet school, for twenty seven consecutive years. He was selected to attend the Dade Academy of the Teaching Arts where he was able to improve his skills. In October of 2000 he moved to Citrus County , Florida , to accept a full-time position at Central Florida Community College 's Citrus Campus. After serving as Instructional Manager for Central Florida Community College for five years, he accepted a full-time faculty position with the same college in the Communications department at the main campus in Ocala . He has taught various levels of composition consistently for over thirty-four years.
See Chuck's: Course Usage | Teaching Tips | Syllabus (.pdf)
Brooke Hughes
California State University Bakersfield
Brooke Hughes is an Illinois native transplanted to California a few years ago with her husband and two cats. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English/Creative Writing at Western Illinois University and her Master of Arts degree in English at California State University, Bakersfield. After receiving her MA degree at CSUB, she began her position as an English instructor, where she has been for the past five years. She teaches various levels of composition, beginning with Basic Skills, and then moving into Writing and Research, Modes of Writing, and Advanced Composition. Lastly, she currently helps facilitate and coordinate the use of MyWritingLab and MyReadingLab on the CSU, Bakersfield campus.
See Brooke's: Syllabus (.doc)
Teri Maddox, Jackson State Community College
Teri Maddox teaches developmental writing, college-level writing, literature, and speech classes at Jackson State Community College in Jackson, Tennessee. Her college enrolls 4,000 students from small towns and rural areas outside metropolitan Memphis. She has a Master of Arts in Teaching, an MA in English, and an EdD from the University of Memphis and completed the certification process as a Specialist in Developmental Education from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She has served as the Director of Developmental Studies at her community college and as a full-time faculty member. Her family loves to travel—her husband planned all family trips so that their two children traveled all over the lower 48. She also loves sports, music, watching movies, and gardening. Teri says, "The first time I was shown the prototype for MyWritingLab, I knew it would be a great product for our students because it is interactive, easy to use, and individualized."
See Teri's: Course Usage | Teaching Tips | Syllabus 1 (.pdf) - Syllabus 2 (.doc)
Bev Neiderman, Kent State University
Bev Neiderman received a Bachelor of Science Degree in English and Speech from Bowling Green State University . She taught for many years in the Ohio Public Schools as earned her Master's in English. After a move to Rockford , Illinois where she worked in the Rockford Schools and raised three children, she returned to Ohio and began teaching part-time at both Kent State University and the University of Akron .
In 2000, she began teaching full-time at Kent State in literature and composition. She was the Assistant Writing Program Coordinator in AY 2003-04. Presently, she teaches five writing courses a semester. These courses include College Writing I Stretch (a 2-semester version of College Writing I for students with writing weaknesses), College Writing I, College Writing II, Advanced Expository Writing, and Advanced Business and Professional Writing. The literature courses she has taught are Great Books I, Great Books II, and Major Modern Writers – British and American. She has also been the Director of a number of Senior Writing Portfolios required for the Writing Minor.
Her most recent work involves technology and multi-modal composing. Since 2002, she has researched and piloted freshmen and sophomore courses as a member of a Provost's Committee which resulted in a new Kent State Tiered English Writing Program. She has also attended various classes and workshops on technology and multi-modal issues in composition such as Computers in the Writing Classroom (CIWIC) at Michigan Institute of Technology. The new program includes requirements in written, digital, and visual with options for audio and video composition.
She is currently a member of a learning community which received a 2007-2008 Ohio Learning Network Grant to revision one of the Tier III courses, Expository Writing, into an online and service learning course. She has shared her research and practice at presentations at CCCC in San Francisco and Chicago , various Ohio colleges, and the Ohio Digital Commons for Education in Columbus , Ohio in addition to running many workshops at Kent State Campuses.
See Bev's: Course Usage | Teaching Tips | Syllabus (.pdf)
Sharon Rinkiewicz, Broward Community College-Central
"I was born and raised in New Jersey until I moved to Florida when I was fourteen years old. I struggled academically most of my life. When I started college, I had to take every single prep class in existence, and had there been more, I’d have been in those too. But I was bound and determined to succeed, no matter what it took. Years later, I graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s in English. Today, I teach the very course I started off in. It is my experience as a student that drives my passion to help other prep students. In many of my students, I see a part of me, so I work extra hard to make sure they learn the fundamental skills and prepare them for college level work."
"My hobbies include reading, writing, swimming, and watching movies."
See Sharon's: Course Usage | Teaching Tips | Syllabus 1 (.pdf) - Syllabus 2 (.doc)
Elizabeth Rumschlag, Baker College
Photo and bio to come.
See Elizabeth's: Syllabus (.doc) | MWL Assignments (.doc)
Anna Schmidt, North Harris Montgomery Community College
Anna Schmidt was born in Nalchik , a city in Southern Russia. Since early childhood, her career aspiration has been to be a teacher. The first lesson in a foreign language - English - in fourth grade “sealed the deal” for Anna. She fell in love with English and decided to become an English teacher. Valedictorian of her graduating class in High School, Anna was accepted into the local State University in 1987. She graduated with a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English and a 4.0 GPA 5 years later. Anna Schmidt began teaching English at a magnet school with in-depth studies of English.
In 1994 Anna won a contest sponsored by the United States Information Agency and came to the United States as a visiting professor to teach ESL at Graceland University , IA. Upon completion of the program, she returned to Russia and immediately began working on her dissertation in Comparative Education with the focus on the United States and Russian higher education and curriculum. In 1998, Anna Schmidt had defended her dissertation and was awarded a Candidate of Science degree, which is equivalent to the U.S. Doctor of Education. In 1998 Anna moved back to the U.S. and began teaching Senior English at Katy ISD. At the same time, she worked as an adjunct instructor at Houston Community College System teaching Comp I, Comp II and Literature courses. Anna Schmidt is currently a Department Chair of Developmental English at Cy-Fair College , Cypress , TX where she has been happily employed for the last 4 years.
On a personal note, Anna is a new mom with an 11 months old adorable little girl Sophia. Most of her time Anna spends with her husband, their daughter and their black cat Olive. Anna's hobbies include reading, window shopping, and playing with Sophia.
See Anna's: Course Usage | Teaching Tips | Syllabus 1 (.pdf) - Syllabus 2 (.doc) - Syllabus 3 (.doc)
Ona Seaney, Southern Methodist University
1992: M.A. in English Literature from the U niversity of New Mexico in Albuquerque , New Mexico .
1990: B.A. in Creative Writing & Philosophy from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth , Texas
For the past ten years Ona Seaney has taught as a lecturer in the Rhetoric program of the English Department at Southern Methodist University, specializing in teaching Rhetoric I and Rhetoric II to English as a Foreign Language (ESL) students (mostly international students). Previous to that, she taught as an adjunct at several area community colleges, including the Brookhaven College campus of the Dallas County Community College District and the Spring Creek campus of the Collin County Community College District. She has also taught as an adjunct professor at the DeVRY Institute of Technology.
See Ona's: Course Usage | Teaching Tips
Kathy Tyndall, Wake Tech Community College
Photo and bio to come.
See Kathy's: Syllabus 1 (.doc) | Syllabus 2 (.doc) | Syllabus 3 (.doc) | Syllabus 4 (.doc) | Syllabus 5 (.doc) | MWL Assignment Chart (.doc)