Edward Anderson - resume - professional training and curriculum development
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Edward J. Anderson 875 Oakhill Ave SW Atlanta, GA 30310 (610) 322-8079 [email protected] Experienced writing educator seeking to contribute to a positive, supportive business place as a professional training partner and curriculum developer. Highly adaptable, available to travel, and possessing strong communications, technological, and interpersonal skills. Full-time Professional Experience Instructor (Teaching Assistantship), Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 2011 - 2015 Revised curriculum to focus on the learner’s place in an rapidly-evolving communications landscape; this became a theme of my teaching and I subsequently delivered a number of presentations to colleagues and generated various pieces of instructional material Developed a strong social media presence in order to adapt to new tech-intensive instructional priorities and facilitate discussion beyond the classroom. Engaged with students via Twitter, Instagram, Face Book, and other outlets Continued to serve as a writing tutor, working one-on-one with learners of various backgrounds and needs to best develop the product required in the moment, as well as foster cognitive and communicative practices applicable in a wide range of settings Tutored inmates at Philips State Prison in Buford, GA: this was a wonderful, deeply enriching experience that encouraged my desire to teach underrepresented learning groups, especially prisoners Assistant Professor, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD 2007 – 2011 In continuing to teach composition and business writing courses, redoubled efforts to make curriculum relevant to students’ experiences and practical needs In teaching Developmental Writing I & II, facilitated skill acquisition at the sentence and paragraph levels, including the development of grammar, spelling, and mechanics Came to recognize a personal desire to work with learners who have been under-served by traditional education, including returning students, those in the midst of a career change, ESL students, economically disadvantaged populations, and those with disabilities Continued to develop my skills as a one-on-one tutor: regularly commended for approachability, willingness to cover hours for colleagues, and overall efforts to improve the tutoring experience Continued to develop a Business Writing pedagogy: began teaching the course as an adjunct at a previous institution and recognized its practical benefit immediately. Developed a semester-long simulation strategy to show the specific importance of the skills being developed Information Technologies Graduate Assistant, Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center, University of Delaware 2005 - 2006 In consulting with faculty, familiarized myself with technologies beyond what I’d worked with in the classroom; regularly re-purposed non-educational resources to good effect linkedin.com/in/profanderson79 profanderson79.wordpress.com twitter.com/profanderson plus.google.com/+EdwardAnderson
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Edward J. Anderson 875 Oakhill Ave SW Atlanta, GA 30310 (610) 322-8079 [email protected]
Experienced writing educator seeking to contribute to a positive, supportive business place as a professional training partner and curriculum developer. Highly adaptable, available to travel, and possessing strong communications, technological, and interpersonal skills. Full-time Professional Experience
Instructor (Teaching Assistantship), Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 2011 - 2015
Revised curriculum to focus on the learner’s place in an rapidly-evolving communications landscape; this became a theme of my teaching and I subsequently delivered a number of presentations to colleagues and generated various pieces of instructional material
Developed a strong social media presence in order to adapt to new tech-intensive instructional priorities and facilitate discussion beyond the classroom. Engaged with students via Twitter, Instagram, Face Book, and other outlets
Continued to serve as a writing tutor, working one-on-one with learners of various backgrounds and needs to best develop the product required in the moment, as well as foster cognitive and communicative practices applicable in a wide range of settings
Tutored inmates at Philips State Prison in Buford, GA: this was a wonderful, deeply enriching experience that encouraged my desire to teach underrepresented learning groups, especially prisoners
Assistant Professor, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD 2007 – 2011
In continuing to teach composition and business writing courses, redoubled efforts to make curriculum relevant to students’ experiences and practical needs
In teaching Developmental Writing I & II, facilitated skill acquisition at the sentence and paragraph levels, including the development of grammar, spelling, and mechanics
Came to recognize a personal desire to work with learners who have been under-served by traditional education, including returning students, those in the midst of a career change, ESL students, economically disadvantaged populations, and those with disabilities
Continued to develop my skills as a one-on-one tutor: regularly commended for approachability, willingness to cover hours for colleagues, and overall efforts to improve the tutoring experience
Continued to develop a Business Writing pedagogy: began teaching the course as an adjunct at a previous institution and recognized its practical benefit immediately. Developed a semester-long simulation strategy to show the specific importance of the skills being developed
Information Technologies Graduate Assistant, Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center, University of Delaware 2005 - 2006
In consulting with faculty, familiarized myself with technologies beyond what I’d worked with in the classroom; regularly re-purposed non-educational resources to good effect
linkedin.com/in/profanderson79 profanderson79.wordpress.com twitter.com/profanderson plus.google.com/+EdwardAnderson
Edward J. Anderson - 2 (610)322-8079 [email protected]
Developed projects with educators from a wide range of disciplines, including Hospitality
& Hotel Management, Music, and the STEM fields
Regularly commended for interpersonal skills, professionalism, and patience with faculty and staff who were, themselves, often in the midst of learning new and complex systems
Instructor (Teaching Assistantship), University of Delaware, Newark, DE 2004 - 2005
Taught developmental and main-track Composition I & II; quickly adapted to higher education priorities that often did not resemble the compulsory settings in which I had gained prior experience
Attended and participated in pedagogical workshops and other training to continue developing effective instructional strategies for college learners
Began service as a writing center tutor; I would continue to develop my one-on-one pedagogy both in private practice and as a faculty member at subsequent institutions
Language Arts Teacher, Perkiomen Valley High School, Collegeville, PA 2003 – 2004
Developed instructional skills, pedagogy, and began to tailor my classroom ethos
Taught Sophomore English to college-prep and developmental students: closely tailored curriculum to the specific needs of these distinct learning groups
Taught Creative Writing and Public Speaking as electives
Helped to re-establish the PV Creative Writing Club and served as faculty facilitator Part-time Professional Experience
Driver, Uber, Atlanta, GA 2014 - Present
Private Writing Tutor 2006 - Present
Adjunct Instructor, Atlanta Metropolitan College, Atlanta, GA 2014
Adjunct Instructor, Georgia Highlands College, Douglasville, GA 2013
Adjunct Instructor, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA 2006 - 2007
Adjunct Instructor, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA 2006 - 2007
Delivery Driver, Domino’s Pizza, Norristown, PA 2006 - 2007
Delivery Driver, Papa John’s Pizza, Hockessin, DE 2005 – 2006
Service & Volunteering
Fundraising assistant, New Voices 2012 Conference 2012
Associate Editor, Potomac Review literary magazine 2007 - 2011
Management assistant, F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, Rockville, MD 2008 - 2010
Management assistant, Conversations and Connections Conference, Johns Hopkins University 2008 - 2010
Edward J. Anderson - 3 (610)322-8079 [email protected]
Education & Enrichment
PhD in English, Georgia State University 2016 (anticip.) Concentration: Critical Literary Theory Dissertation: ‘Superman Takes Off His Underwear’ and Other Adventures in Subjective Identity Construction GPA: 3.85
Johns Hopkins University Writing Craft Conference 2009, 2010
Smithsonian faculty fellow, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD 2009
MA in Literature, University of Delaware 2006 GPA: 3.73
BS in Secondary English Education, West Chester University 2002 Minor: Special Education GPA: 3.55 Magna Cum Laude Dean’s List, six semesters
Publications and Presentations
‘FPS & Identity’, PlayTest, Georgia State University Communications Dept., Spring 2015
‘Pedagogy, Not Platforms’, Atlanta Connected Learning, Fall 2014
‘Racing Up to Meet New Media’, Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project Literary Conference, Kennesaw State University, Fall 2014
‘“Time Keeps on Tickin’…”: Building Critical Information Literacy for an Unknowable Media Future’, Graduate English mentoring session, Georgia State University, Fall 2013
‘A View from the Outside: Autobiography and the Negotiation of Systemic Power Structures in the Commentaries of Bayard Rustin’, Schuylkill, Spring 2012
‘If You’re Seeing This, I’m Probably Dead: Discovering the Literary Heritage of Found Footage Horror’, South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2011 Convention
‘Underground America: Comics in Our Culture and in Our Classrooms’, 2011 Spring Seminar Series, Montgomery College
‘Survivor-Authors: Defining a Literary Identity of Holocaust Memoir and Memoirists in American Media’, College English Association: Middle Atlantic Group, Spring 2008 Conference, Montgomery College
