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- Creative Writing
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- Literature
- Classic Literature
- Comparative Literature
An English Composition and Literature teaching professional who is involved in all phases of educational services, curriculum development, reporting, and analysis from Las Vegas.
- Creative Writing
- Redaction
- Literature
- Classic Literature
- Comparative Literature
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About Riley
I am an English teacher with a Master's degree in Creative Writing and Literature. I have been teaching at the college level for the last 3 years, and been giving private and small group tutoring lessons for the past year.
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- Compulsory School
- Secondary School
- Higher Education
- +2
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Compulsory School
Secondary School
Higher Education
Adult Education
MBA
- English
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English
Teaching—especially in the humanities—should always strive to move beyond the simple expression of facts or even the training of certain skills (other than such skills like critically analyzing a text). Instead, teachers in the liberal arts have the responsibility of serving as guide and mentor on an intellectual journey, opening and broadening curious minds by exposing them to new thoughts and ideas. As liberal education helps expand the students’ horizon, challenging them to critically examine their values, goals, and ideals, they learn to sympathize and empathize with others of different backgrounds or ideals. This charge of creating self-aware, self-reliant, and empathetic citizens is the underlying philosophy in my teaching.
Therefore, not only do my classes strive to teach students various ways of acquiring, analyzing, and evaluating information, they also provide the opportunity for students to confront new ideas and different points of views, all the while increasing their ability to discuss and defend their own positions both in discussions and in writing. In my composition and creative writing classes this has translated to an interactive, group-oriented classroom that focuses on critical thinking, reading, and writing. I emphasize peer workshops, group work, sometimes partner papers, and using example student essays as reading material in an attempt to sharpen the students’ critical reading skills and create a more comfortable and open class environment. In a literature course, I believe that highlighting different approaches of interpretation will train students to generate and defend their own critical readings of literary texts. By analyzing their peers’ essays, students learn to detect rhetorical and creative structures, basic rhetorical appeals, and the importance of language, as well as learning to become better readers of their own work. I believe there is no such thing as a good writer, only a good re-writer. So, by continually writing, revising, and rewriting, students learn to translate their thoughts into a reader-friendly argument that is coherently structured, well argued, and aware of its audience. Furthermore, through interrelated paper assignments and revisions, I aim to also be present through students’ writing processes, serving as mentor in helping students to rework their arguments and improve their writing skills. Alternating informational lectures, student-driven class discussions, and guided work in small groups produces a learning situation in which the students can comfortably share and discuss their ideas and literary interpretations and findings.
My plan to approach literature courses is somewhat similar to my composition and creative writing classes, as I would teach students to read closely, analyze, and interpret so as to learn reading literature as a skill rather than simply see it as a body of information to be imparted by the teacher. Through a mixture of lectures, close readings (at times via group work with specific assignments or a reading journal), and general class discussions, I aim to introduce the students to important authors and texts within the context of larger literary movements. My use of directed group work gives the students the opportunity to engage with the text on their own, forcing them to interact with one another and share ideas. This also allows me to observe the quieter students at work and creates a class situation in which the students feel comfortable with one another and are less hesitant to speak up in a large class discussion. My overall goal is to situate the specific literary texts in a historical, philosophical, and social framework in order to show the interactions between literary culture and society at large. To do so, I give brief historical overviews, expand the classes with smaller background readings, and relate the literature to other art forms such as paintings or film.
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- 5h: US$100
- 10h: US$250
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