mind like a steel trap. not sure what that means, other than i’m cold, dangerous, and made of metal.

i am an educator and graduate from Madison College with my Associate Degree in Visual Communications (now known as Video Audio Design), a degree i earned after becoming disillusioned with the efficacy of my teaching methodology; essentially, the "read essays and write essays" method of teaching critical thinking to my all-age students was not helping them actually learn critical thinking.

while my main focus is critical thinking, i am interested in: process-to-product creation and the ethics of production; education, methodology, and instruction for general and discipline-specific knowledge; education through aesthetics-, play-, and fun-driven methodologies; and digital literacy and inclusion of all-age learning of the digital tools that shape our lives (kids and seniors need to understand the internet!).

curriculum vitae

  • Long Beach State University

    August 2016 to May 2018

    I teach students persuasion through composition; essentially, I teach my students how to use writing effectively to ethically persuade an audience.

    Relevant English Classes:

    300 → Advanced Composition
    380 → Methodologies and Approaches to English Studies
    405 → Creative Writing: Art of the Short Story
    411 → Research Methodologies in Rhetoric and Composition
    435 → Theories and Application of Teaching Composition
    459 → English Literature of the 20th Century
    474 → American Literature of the 20th Century
    510 → Theories of Writing and Literacy
    535 → Theories and Practices of Composition
    577B → Survey of the American Novel
    598 → Directed Studies, Watermark (an annual scholarly journal published by graduate students in the Department of English at California State University, Long Beach)
    681A → Geoffrey Chaucer
    683K → History of Composition Instruction
    684 → Seminar in Advanced Literary Theory
    685 → Seminar of the History of Rhetorical Theory
    696 → Seminar of Theory Research and Criticism

  • Long Beach State University

    August 2010 to May 2012

    I studied the foundations of Italian civilization using the evolving nature of language and the use of literature as a vehicle for that evolution (vernacular Latin to an infant language to complex written prose). My degree gave me a comprehensive look at all aspects of Italy: the political, the religious, the practical, and the theoretical.

    Relevant Italian Classes:

    101A → Fundamental Italian, Part I
    101B → Fundamental Italian, Part II
    201A → Intermediate Italian, Part I
    201B → Intermediate Italian, Part II
    310 → Introduction to Italian Literary Analysis
    312A → Advanced Italian, Part I
    312B → Advanced Italian, Part II
    335 → Survey of Italian Literature and Literary Analysis I
    336 → Survey of 19th and 20th Century Italian Literature and Literary Analysis
    340 → Survey of Italian Civilization
    411 → Advanced Italian Syntax and Grammar Stylistics
    414 → History of the Italian Language
    440 → Italian-American Culture
    454 → Survey of Italian Cinema
    478 → The Italian Novelistic Tradition

  • Madison Area Technical College

    January 2020 to December 2022

    I acquired this degree because I want to make English education, and education in general, a streamlined, visual language that engages students' critical thinking skills and offers the entirety of their systemic education all in one virtual realm.

    View my portfolio here.

educational philosophy:

i educate others to recognize the fear of authorship/finding one’s voice within themselves, and to combat that fear with critical thinking skills

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