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.
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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.
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Pat Leverentz, Pima Community College
Pat Leverentz currently teaches writing and literature at a community college in Tucson , Arizona , where she's been teaching for six years. She serves as Chair for the Department of Written and Oral Communication and teaches online writing as well as traditional classroom courses. She previously served as Lead Writing Faculty in the Alternative Learning Center , a self-paced program offering writing, math and reading to students in one-hour modules, providing one-to-one work with instructors and tutors within the center.
Prior to moving to Tucson , she taught developmental writing and reading in the undergraduate school at Life University in Marietta , Georgia for five years. She has also taught as an adjunct at numerous colleges, including online teaching for ITT Technical Institute and traditional classroom teaching at Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne , Indiana . She earned a B.S. in English from Manchester College and an M.S. in Education at Indiana-Purdue University and will be on sabbatical during fall semester 2007 to begin post-graduate work at University of Arizona.
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Teri Maddox, Jackson State Community College
Teri Maddox has taught developmental writing, COMP I, COMP II, literature, technical writing, and speech classes at Jackson State Community College for 20 years. In her spare time she likes traveling, performing in community theater, gardening, and playing the guitar. She is currently taking ESL classes through the University of Memphis . She is active in her church's sanctuary choir and handbell choir.
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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.
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Sharon Rinkiewicz, Broward Community College-Central
Sharon Rinkiewicz has a BA in English and has been teaching college prep writing for about four years now at Broward Community College . Because her classes are in a traditional classroom setting, she uses My Writing Lab for homework. Students enjoy working with the program because it gives them multiple tries to get the passing score; they know immediately if they are understanding the skill taught. Because of the constant editing practice they wouldn't otherwise receive, this makes them more prepared to proofreading and editing their own work later on. It fosters independent learning thereby weaning them off me as their editor.
The first papers her students write in the course are done through My Writing Lab, so she can give them more one-on-one feedback to improve their writing skills. Her students go through three drafts, the first two done through My Writing Lab and the final polished version, which is done on Microsoft Word.
Her students also submit one paper through the tutoring center and another paper through smarthinking. After this, she allows them to choose which service they would like to use for writing assistance.
She also loves the fact that this program has cut her grading time in half. No longer does she have to correct each and every single answer to a homework assignment; the computer does it for her.
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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.
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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.
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Susan Taylor, North Florida Community College
Susan Hogle Taylor is an English educator at North Florida Community College (NFCC) in Madison , Florida . Mrs. Taylor has been a classroom instructor since 1985. Her teaching experience has been in the state of Florida at the middle school, high school, and college levels. At each level, her career has been devoted to working primarily with at-risk and developmental students. In 2002, she took a hiatus from classroom teaching for three years to work with the Florida Department of Education as a Program Director in the Office of School Improvement and as a Program Director at the Test Development Center for the 10 th grade reading Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). Taylor 's present NFCC instructional focus has been on developmental writing students. She is working towards a Ph.D. in reading at Florida State University , and she was appointed to the board for the Florida Developmental Education Association (FDEA). Mrs. Taylor plans to concentrate on effective practices that will benefit students in developmental programs.
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Michelle Williams, Dallas County Community College
Bio to come.
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