Sentences with phrase «english literature teacher»

My first exposure to Jane's work was a BBC TV production of «Pride and Prejudice,» which my English literature teacher, Mrs. Jones, had advised the class to watch.

English Literature Teacher amongst other things is what she is!

The majority of heads surveyed were «philosophers» (51 per cent)-- mostly former English literature teachers with no experience outside education — who saw their role as enablers of better teaching rather than prioritising staff management, revenue and better working environments.

Not exact matches

They're both high school teachers: Grant takes on English / literature while Bonnie tackles math.

I read a lot of Calvinist literature in English and literature classes and in history class the closest thing I saw to anti-Christian sentiment was a comment about how Islamic scholars in West Africa criticized Christian teachers for doing exactly what the Islamic scholars had been doing (the hypocrisy was clearly pointed out).

A recent seminar in Religion, Drama and Literature at Drew University, held with the help of the Danforth Foundation under the auspices of the Commission on Literature of the National Council of Churches, attracted a good number of teachers of English.

As a bookish kid struggling to find a place in a world of hunting, fishing, and athletics, I was offered refuge in art, literature, and music my ninth - grade English teacher.

Social workers, psychologists, English teachers, raconteurs, and lovers of drama and literature bring special talents to the process.

As a teacher of English literature, I also tend to think of George Herbert and Nicholas Ferrar, William Cowper and John Newton (an asymmetrical friendship, thanks to Cowper's profound mental and spiritual afflictions and Newton's attentiveness to them), Flannery O'Connor and several of her correspondents.

In English Literature from McGill University, an MA in Art Theory and Criticism from Art Center of Pasadena, a Multiple Subject Credential, a Single Subject Credential in English from Chapman, and she is currently enrolled in the Waldorf Teacher Training Program at the Waldorf School of Orange County.

Chris Sekely CWS Kindergarten teacher since 1996 Penn State University, BS in Human Development University of Pittsburgh, MS in Public Health Antioch College, MEd Waldorf Certification & Gradalis Therapeutic Certification Returning Board Member in 2016 Connie Davis CWS Class teacher since 2003 University of the South, BA English Literature 1985 Manufacturing Management 1986 - 1998 Antioch University, Waldorf Teacher Certification 2008 CWS Faculty Chair 2007 CWS Grades Chair 2012 CWS College Chair 2017 Returning Board Membteacher since 1996 Penn State University, BS in Human Development University of Pittsburgh, MS in Public Health Antioch College, MEd Waldorf Certification & Gradalis Therapeutic Certification Returning Board Member in 2016 Connie Davis CWS Class teacher since 2003 University of the South, BA English Literature 1985 Manufacturing Management 1986 - 1998 Antioch University, Waldorf Teacher Certification 2008 CWS Faculty Chair 2007 CWS Grades Chair 2012 CWS College Chair 2017 Returning Board Membteacher since 2003 University of the South, BA English Literature 1985 Manufacturing Management 1986 - 1998 Antioch University, Waldorf Teacher Certification 2008 CWS Faculty Chair 2007 CWS Grades Chair 2012 CWS College Chair 2017 Returning Board MembTeacher Certification 2008 CWS Faculty Chair 2007 CWS Grades Chair 2012 CWS College Chair 2017 Returning Board Member 2017

She is a teacher by profession with Masters Degree in English Literature and also a makeup enthusiast.

Vivian Maguire is an English teacher with an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Texas at El Paso.

English teachers need to convince the student who wants to play the blues guitar that reading Charles Dickens is relevant because Dickens is the blues in Victorian literature.

I married and moved to Tallahassee, FL, where I completed the Language Arts Teacher Certification program and obtained a Bachelor's degree in English Literature.

He is currently the lead English teacher at a high school on Long Island, where he teaches AP Literature and Composition, Creative a Writing, and Public Speaking.

«When I was 14, in our first class of Literature in English, I remember our teacher saying, rather solemnly, that our subject is called Literature in English, rather than English Literature,» writes Bonnie Chiu.

She makes sure her students not only leave high school versed in writing and English literature but also «come away with a great deal of self - knowledge,» says fellow English teacher Allen Cleveland.

With a background in literature, some academic editing experience, and limited exposure as a teacher of English as a foreign language, Sherman was thrust into teaching high school English without any formal training whatsoever.

Lecturer Sarah Leibel, a master teacher in charge of the English / language arts strand and overall recruiting for the Ed School's new Harvard Teacher Fellows (HTF) Program, mentions how, in literature, students need «mirrors and windows,» meaning they can see them themselves in stories and also experience unfamiliar teacher in charge of the English / language arts strand and overall recruiting for the Ed School's new Harvard Teacher Fellows (HTF) Program, mentions how, in literature, students need «mirrors and windows,» meaning they can see them themselves in stories and also experience unfamiliar Teacher Fellows (HTF) Program, mentions how, in literature, students need «mirrors and windows,» meaning they can see them themselves in stories and also experience unfamiliar worlds.

As a high school English teacher in Prince George's County, Maryland, my students and I used literature as a lens through which we explored the realities of the world around us.

After all, Bennett has a master's in English literature from Columbia University, exactly the kind of academic attainment we supposedly want more of from our teachers.

He holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Whitman College, a Masters in Teaching from the University of Washington, and is a National Board Certified Teacher.

Pam Chandler, a sixth - grade English, reading, and social studies teacher at Sequoia Middle School in Redding, California, defines the roles her students take on in literature circles in this way:

My choice to pursue this field of study and my love of writing was heavily influenced by several exceptional English & Literature teachers who inspired and encouraged me throughout my schooling.

Literature graduate and Secondary School English Teacher looking for (and hopefully to share!)

At the recent launch event for the CUNY Institute for Education Policy, David Coleman, now known as the «architect» of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards, was asked by a member of the audience why a teacher, who cited the Common Core standards emphasis on «informational texts,» would claim that she was told to «put away her literature books and photocopy microwave instructions» for her eighth - grade students.

Longtime English teacher and technology - integration coordinator Jerome Burg always looks for ways to bring students close to the action when teaching literature's great travel tales.

English teachers are typically literature lovers, so it's natural for them to share their passion for reading with their students by introducing them to great books.

Rosemary Johnston is Professor of Education and Culture at University of Technology Sydney, a former English and history high school teacher who's written several books on literacy for teachers and has a forthcoming book on Australian children's literature.

Author and teacher Jon Seal and Lisa Wrenn of Cambridge University Press looked at «Digital solutions for GCSE Maths and GCSE English Literature».

Alongside lesson plans, these resources will allow students and teachers to prepare with assurance for their English Literature exams.

This does not mean English teachers need to cut literature from their syllabi; it means that, across all of their high school classes, students should be spending 70 percent of their time reading nonfiction texts.

Discovery Education Secondary's English resources are created by experienced teachers and curriculum specialists with a passion for language and literature like you.

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 18 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 95 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (9 sheets) * Homework project (7 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills * A copy of the key scene, with original version on the left and space for students to «translate» into modern English on the right * End - of - unit reading / writing exam * End - of - unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 3 - 6, with GCSE 1 - 9 conversion) Unit's lessons include: * Quiz on the life and times of Shakespeare * Group «collective memory» activity on the Globe Theatre * Activities focused upon «translating» Shakespearean language * Storyboarding the play * Reading and translating Act 3 Scene 1 * Analysing characters in the key scene * Structing an essay response * Designing costumes for Puck and Titania * Designing a set for the key scene * Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level) * SPaG starter activities * Crosswords * End - of - unit reading exam (GCSE English Language / Literature style) * End - of - unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style) * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 24 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 116 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (20 sheets) * Homework project (7 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills * End - of - unit reading / writing exam * End - of - unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 4 - 7, with GCSE 1 - 9 conversion) Unit's lessons include: * Contexts match - up activity * Reading and discussing the whole play * Exploring Salem society in the 1690s - power and influence * Exploring key characters * In - depth analysis of characters - John Proctor and Reverend Hale * Essay writing skills - writing about characters * In - depth analysis of themes - relationships, jealousy, respect, religion * Exploring tension across the play * Linking the play to the 1950s McCarthy Era * 2 huge 60 - question revision quizzes * Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level) * SPaG starter activities * End - of - unit reading exam (GCSE English Language / Literature style) * End - of - unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style) * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 21 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 77 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (7 sheets) * Homework project (7 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills * End - of - unit reading / writing exam * End - of - unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 4 - 7, with GCSE 1 - 9 conversion) Unit's lessons include: * Contexts match - up * Exploring working class vs. middle class stereotypes * Shared reading and discussion of the whole play * Creating theatre publicity posters * In - depth analysis of key scnes (Act 1 Scene 1; Act 2 Scene 1; Act 2 Scene 5) * Writing to describe - script to prose * Features of writing to inform and explain * AfL - improving a sample application letter * Role play - creating and performing an extra scene for the play * Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level) * SPaG starter activities * Crosswords * Huge 60 - question revision quiz * End - of - unit reading exam (GCSE English Language / Literature style) * End - of - unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style) * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities

If English teachers are indeed abandoning literature in favor of non-fiction in a misguided attempt to comply with the new standards, shouldn't somebody be calling a staff meeting?

Teachers in social studies, science and math should require more reading, which would allow English teachers to continue to assign literature, Teachers in social studies, science and math should require more reading, which would allow English teachers to continue to assign literature, teachers to continue to assign literature, he said.

Absent from the literature, however, are measured directions for how teachers might develop technology literacy themselves, as well as specific plans for how they might begin to critically assess the potential that technology holds for them in enhancing their English language arts or methods instruction.

While the literature in the field of English education demonstrates the efficacy of computer technology in writing instruction and addresses its impact on the evolving definition of literacy in the 21st century, it does not provide measured directions for how English teachers might develop technology literacy themselves or specific plans for how they might begin to critically assess the potential that technology might hold for them in enhancing instruction.

English teachers aren't supposed to scrap much - beloved literature to make way for nonfiction.

If I totally lost my mind and any sense of why I actually became an English teacher, I could crank out students with great BS Tests scores who knew absolutely nothing about the literature, history and culture of their own country (or any other).

In our yearlong program, we further advance teachers» skills through graduate - level coursework in English literature and advanced instructional methods in English education.

We work to advance teachers» skills through graduate - level coursework in English literature, advanced instructional methods in English education, educational leadership, and other courses selected by the individual.

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Based on our experiences at Meadow Park Middle School and our knowledge of the literature, we formed a few strategies other schools can employ when looking to increase teacher collaboration to better serve students learning English.

English teachers can incorporate these maps of plot settings in American literature as informational texts in order to build student background knowledge.

Even English teachers teach literature, not reading.

Teachers also revealed that classics of English literature, such as those by Jane Austen, are putting boys off reading.