I am a current high school English teacher and a former college English instructor. I have a Bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University in English with a focus on Creative Writing and a Master's degree from Southeastern Louisiana University in English Literature. At both Southeastern and at Baton Rouge Community College, from 2014-2016, I taught primarily English 101-level classes and one remedial English course, with the focus being English Composition. Currently, I hold a position at...
I am a current high school English teacher and a former college English instructor. I have a Bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University in English with a focus on Creative Writing and a Master's degree from Southeastern Louisiana University in English Literature. At both Southeastern and at Baton Rouge Community College, from 2014-2016, I taught primarily English 101-level classes and one remedial English course, with the focus being English Composition. Currently, I hold a position at a Christian High School as an 11th and 12th grade English teacher, teaching both regular and honors/college dual enrollment classes.
In my current position, I balance engaging discussions of American and British Literature with essays of various genres, instilling in my students the skills they need to progress on to college and the college-level essays they will write, with focus on grammar, quality content, and securing outside sources and citing them in proper MLA format. My experience teaching those college level classes allows me the knowledge of what students can expect and what teachers both look for and what teachers do not like to see.
I genuinely enjoy seeing students becoming engaged in the material they are learning. When working on literary analysis, I love seeing their responses to what we have read and much of the time gain new insight on said reading because of what they see and interpret. There is a collaboration there that can only happen in the classroom. When working on essays, I love being able to guide these young men and women to become better writers and I take joy when I see that progress from the first day I meet them to the last day. I also care about my students, as I will go to bat for them, whether that means praising them for a good job to other teachers or fighting for them when they've earned an unjust grade.
My time teaching at the college level gives me insight on what college instructors look for in a quality essay, which is a skill I can pass on to my high school students and an
