Subjects
History, Spanish, Writing Composition
Background
- Tutoring and teaching since 2012
- Writing composition and essay technician
- Studied international affairs and educational theory in Washington D.C.
As a Scholar
I teach a wide range of subjects in the languages and humanities including English, History, Geography, and Spanish. Most of all, I enjoy teaching essay composition and enriching my students’ vocabulary. I notice that often students have a great capacity to express their ideas on paper but they need the right tools to do so. I have experience teaching ESL students from all over the world as well as college students working on advanced-level writing assignments.
Courses Taken
CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults)
The course enables candidates to:
• acquire essential subject knowledge and familiarity with the principles of effective teaching
• acquire a range of practical skills for teaching English to adult learners
• demonstrate their ability to apply their learning in a real teaching context.
Candidates who complete the course successfully can begin working in a variety of ESOL teaching contexts around the world. - Certificate, August 2017
HUMA 50000 Pedagogies of Writing is a course for new University writing instructors; it teaches both writing techniques and writing pedagogy. It's designed to help writing instructors in the University's common core meet the needs of University of Chicago first-year undergraduates. These students emerge from high school with a strong foundation in writing and argumentation; their university writing instruction must build on this foundation to help students write well-structured, sophisticated arguments that make valuable contributions to a field or profession. In this course you will learn and practice a suite of writing and editing techniques that have proved useful to advanced academic writers. In paper comments, micro-teaching sessions, and mock seminars, you will practice a pedagogy that helps students internalize these techniques. Throughout, we focus on writing instruction for first-years undergraduates taking their mandatory Humanities Common Core sequence, but the techniques and pedagogy that we discuss may be applied in other university writing-intensive courses as well. - The University of Chicago- Summer 2017.
Courses Taught
HUMA 19100. Humanities Writing Seminars. These seminars introduce students to the analysis and practice of expert academic writing. Experts must meet many familiar standards for successful writing: clear style, logical organization, and persuasive argument. But because they work with specialized knowledge, experts also face particular writing difficulties: they must be clear about complexities and specific about abstractions; they must use uncomplicated organization for very complicated ideas; they must create straightforward logic for intricate arguments; they must be concise but not incomplete, direct but not simplistic; they must clarify the obscure but not repeat the obvious; and they must anticipate the demands of aggressively skeptical readers. The seminars do not repeat or extend the substantive discussion of the Humanities class; they use the discussions and assignments from those classes as a tool for the advanced study of writing. We study various methods not only for the construction of sophisticated and well-structured arguments but also for understanding the complications and limits of those arguments. These seminars also address issues of readership and communication within expert communities. As students present papers in the seminars, we can use the reactions of the audience to introduce the techniques experts can use to transform a text from one that serves the writer to one that serves the readers.