Post by kjgooden on Feb 17, 2016 22:28:08 GMT -5
Zachary M Stoltzfus is a graduate of Millersville University (BA, History) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (MA, European Studies). He is currently in his second year as a doctoral student in History at Florida State University, where he is a fellow of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution. He has served as a Research Assistant at Florida State University, and as a Teaching Assistant at Penn State University, Berks Campus. He has presented at several academic conferences and contributed to the academic blog “Age of Revolutions.” He studies the legal and political discourse of the French Revolution, as well as theory and its relation to the discipline of history. His fields of study include, but are not limited to, the History of Science, the British Empire and Atlantic World, and Modern European History. He is interested in the relationship between historical writing and other fields of discourse, such as literature and science. Contact Zach at zms14@my.fsu.edu
David Bedsole holds a BA in English from Huntingdon College, and a MA in Professional Communication from Clemson University. He is currently a doctoral candidate in English (Rhetoric and Composition) at Florida State University. In his nine years of college teaching, he has developed and taught courses in communication theory, visual communication, and all kinds of writing and editing, but has extensive experience in first-year writing. He studies technology, professional communication, multimodality, ethics, and writing assessment, and writes about those things. He co-edits, with Bruce Bowles, Jr, the Journal of Writing Assessment Reading List. Contact David at dbedsole@gmail.com
Hannah Hiester writes:
I would like to participate in the peer mentoring opportunity in the Literacy Across the Content Areas class. Through my academic studies, work as a researcher and teaching experience, I have participated in many different discourse communities, in particular developing strong scientific and academic literacies. Furthermore, my teaching experience in the UK, USA and China has introduced me to students with diverse needs and helped me develop a teaching approach that aims to both nurture and empower students. In addition, as I will be participating in the class, I will be developing my knowledge of literacy and means of realizing literacy practices in the classroom alongside my peers. The challenges, therefore, will be fresh in my mind placing me in a good position to help peers identify both obstacles and pertinent questions. Overall, I believe I have a strong foundation of experience and a supportive philosophy that would help me provide good mentorship to my peers. I would look forward to working with and learning from my peers as we explore their ideas and my own, and foster their unique perspective on literacy. Contact Hannah at hhiester@fsu.edu
Jenn Schellinger writes:
I am a PhD student in the School of Teacher Education’s Curriculum and Instruction program with a concentration in science education. I have a background in biology and art. I received my MS from FSU’s Department of Biology before enrolling in the PhD program. I have taught biology courses at FSU and the course you are currently taking. Additionally, I teach middle school math and engineering and am a 3rd grade teaching assistant at a local private school. For my dissertation, I am interested in investigating the science and engineering practice of developing and using models. Specifically, I am interested in the ways that young students engage in the process and language of modeling and the ways that this engagement provides opportunities for students to draw upon multiple disciplines. My background in art comes from art school and graphic arts work. I worked for many years as a comic book colorist, managed a coloring house, and worked as a graphic designer. As a colorist, my main goal was to use color, shading, texture, and special effects as tools to create meaning. I have enjoyed working with past students in art to help them think more deeply about what the literacy practices are in their content area. Additionally, having taught the course multiple times, I have thought about the practices associated with other content areas and am happy to help you in any way you need. Please contact me at schellingerjennifer@gmail.com to arrange a meeting or communicate via email
Yiyi Wang writes:
I am a PhD student at the Foreign and Second Language Education program. I have a bachelor degree in biological sciences, a Master degree in sociology, and a PhD degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities. I have taught the course Multicultural Film: American Culture/American Cinema at FSU for five years. In addition, I taught instrumental music at FSU School of Music for three years. My dissertation for the PhD degree in Humanities is on Cultural trauma and American/European war films. It explores the formation of the collective unconscious at the interception of ritual, narrative, and visual practices. My current research project, which is to be developed as a dissertation project for my second PhD, is on measuring second language learners’ syntactic transfer as an unconscious cross-linguistic influence. This current project is designed to match my first dissertation project: the first one is a qualitative research on the formation of the collective unconscious in cultural practices, while the second is a quantitative research on the reconstruction of the [collective] unconscious in a cross-linguistic context. As for the peer mentoring, I am very interested in it. Currently, I am tutoring for FSU’s athlete students on a variety of subjects including French, Spanish, Multicultural Film, Theater, Classical Mythology, Ancient Mythology, Psychology, and Humanities courses. I believe that being a peer mentor will further enhance my experience on how learning takes place at the level of specific individuals. Contact Yiyi at yww5975@my.fsu.edu
David Bedsole holds a BA in English from Huntingdon College, and a MA in Professional Communication from Clemson University. He is currently a doctoral candidate in English (Rhetoric and Composition) at Florida State University. In his nine years of college teaching, he has developed and taught courses in communication theory, visual communication, and all kinds of writing and editing, but has extensive experience in first-year writing. He studies technology, professional communication, multimodality, ethics, and writing assessment, and writes about those things. He co-edits, with Bruce Bowles, Jr, the Journal of Writing Assessment Reading List. Contact David at dbedsole@gmail.com
Hannah Hiester writes:
I would like to participate in the peer mentoring opportunity in the Literacy Across the Content Areas class. Through my academic studies, work as a researcher and teaching experience, I have participated in many different discourse communities, in particular developing strong scientific and academic literacies. Furthermore, my teaching experience in the UK, USA and China has introduced me to students with diverse needs and helped me develop a teaching approach that aims to both nurture and empower students. In addition, as I will be participating in the class, I will be developing my knowledge of literacy and means of realizing literacy practices in the classroom alongside my peers. The challenges, therefore, will be fresh in my mind placing me in a good position to help peers identify both obstacles and pertinent questions. Overall, I believe I have a strong foundation of experience and a supportive philosophy that would help me provide good mentorship to my peers. I would look forward to working with and learning from my peers as we explore their ideas and my own, and foster their unique perspective on literacy. Contact Hannah at hhiester@fsu.edu
Jenn Schellinger writes:
I am a PhD student in the School of Teacher Education’s Curriculum and Instruction program with a concentration in science education. I have a background in biology and art. I received my MS from FSU’s Department of Biology before enrolling in the PhD program. I have taught biology courses at FSU and the course you are currently taking. Additionally, I teach middle school math and engineering and am a 3rd grade teaching assistant at a local private school. For my dissertation, I am interested in investigating the science and engineering practice of developing and using models. Specifically, I am interested in the ways that young students engage in the process and language of modeling and the ways that this engagement provides opportunities for students to draw upon multiple disciplines. My background in art comes from art school and graphic arts work. I worked for many years as a comic book colorist, managed a coloring house, and worked as a graphic designer. As a colorist, my main goal was to use color, shading, texture, and special effects as tools to create meaning. I have enjoyed working with past students in art to help them think more deeply about what the literacy practices are in their content area. Additionally, having taught the course multiple times, I have thought about the practices associated with other content areas and am happy to help you in any way you need. Please contact me at schellingerjennifer@gmail.com to arrange a meeting or communicate via email
Yiyi Wang writes:
I am a PhD student at the Foreign and Second Language Education program. I have a bachelor degree in biological sciences, a Master degree in sociology, and a PhD degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities. I have taught the course Multicultural Film: American Culture/American Cinema at FSU for five years. In addition, I taught instrumental music at FSU School of Music for three years. My dissertation for the PhD degree in Humanities is on Cultural trauma and American/European war films. It explores the formation of the collective unconscious at the interception of ritual, narrative, and visual practices. My current research project, which is to be developed as a dissertation project for my second PhD, is on measuring second language learners’ syntactic transfer as an unconscious cross-linguistic influence. This current project is designed to match my first dissertation project: the first one is a qualitative research on the formation of the collective unconscious in cultural practices, while the second is a quantitative research on the reconstruction of the [collective] unconscious in a cross-linguistic context. As for the peer mentoring, I am very interested in it. Currently, I am tutoring for FSU’s athlete students on a variety of subjects including French, Spanish, Multicultural Film, Theater, Classical Mythology, Ancient Mythology, Psychology, and Humanities courses. I believe that being a peer mentor will further enhance my experience on how learning takes place at the level of specific individuals. Contact Yiyi at yww5975@my.fsu.edu
