Utica College - English
English Composition, Spanish, Linguistics, Teacher Education, and ESL.
Higher Education
Andrew
King
Syracuse, New York Area
Education - in whatever form its seeker chooses - is the single greatest asset any person can take into the world. An educator's job is to help stimulate students' interests (and find new ones they didn't know they had), and to try provide context for their new knowledge as they gain it, to help them see how it all fits into their journey, into the bigger picture. It is NOT merely to get students to some arbitrary end-point: a diploma/degree, a passing grade, or a standardized test score. We have become a nation of pure data, of test scores and dropout rates, lazily simplified abstractions of critically important ideas. But any educational process or notion that has at its heart the notion that it is the DATA that needs to be treated, and not the STUDENTS, is fundamentally flawed.
Post-probationary Adjunct Professor (English Composition, ESL)
Regular professional responsibilities: Design and develop curricula, and teach Composition courses to ESL, non-ESL and mixed populations, as well as ESL "four-skills" courses; administer and score new student intake diagnostics, both ESL and non-ESL; tutor students in writing at the campus Learning Center
Special duties, responsibilities, and appointments: Contribute to and participate in best practices research with ESL faculty and other professional development activities; mentor newly hired ESL adjunct(s); OCCFTA (Onondaga Community College Federation of Teachers and Administrators) Campus-wide VP for Adjuncts, and member of union Executive Board; member, Student Affairs Committee; adviser, Geek Club
Courses Taught:
ALP (Accelerated Learning Program: ENG 099/103 cohort)
ENG 099 (Developmental Composition)
ENG 103 (Freshman Composition I)
ENG 104 (Freshman Composition and Literature II)
ESL 098 (Basic Grammar, Writing and Speaking)
ESL 114 (Academic Speaking and Listening)
ESL 115 (ESL II)
ESL 116 (ESL Composition)
ESL 118 (College Reading and Vocabulary for ESL Students)
Adjunct Instructor (English, Communication)
Courses taught:
ENGL 102 (Research and Writing in the Workplace)
ENGL 202 (Advanced Research and Writing)
COMM 104 (Learning Communities)
Spanish Teacher - High School
Excited to start my new role on August 28, 2019!
Adjunct Associate Professor (ESL)
Regular professional responsibilities: Recurring Summer appointment: Teach intensive summer English to college-aged exchange students, mostly from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Courses Taught:
ESL 110 (Writing and Grammar II)
ESL 111 (Reading and Vocabulary II)
ESL 112 (Speaking and Listening II)
ESL 120 (Writing and Grammar III)
ESL 121 (Reading and Vocabulary III)
ESL 122 (Speaking and Listening III)
Adjunct Instructor (English, ESL)
Regular professional responsibilities: Teach both "regular" and ESL-designated sections of freshman Composition courses; teach research writing; teach one or both courses of upper division level ESL Methods course sequence for future teachers.
Courses Taught:
ENG 100 (Writing Skills)
ENG 101 (Freshman Composition)
ENG 102 (Composition and Research Writing)
ENG 135 (Introduction to Literature)
ENG 316 (ESL Theory and Practice for Teachers)
ENG 317 (ESL Across the Content Areas)
Teacher Education Graduate Program leading to Secondary Certification
State licensure in Spanish (grades 7-12), English (grades 6-9), ESL (grades K-12)
Master of Arts (M.A.)
English, TESOL Option
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Linguistics
Minor Concentration: Cognitive Studies
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