Brent W. Baggaley

2750 Wallingford Dr., Apt. 1612

Houston, TX 77042

(713) 783-8013

OBJECTIVE: To obtain a full-time English teaching position at the community college or high school level in Composition or Literature to teach critical thinking skills.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Community College English Teacher

Houston Community College System: 2002-Present

  • Adjunct English Faculty
  • Teach Composition I and II and American Literature
  • Prepare original syllabi, lesson plans and composition assignments.
  • Use original evaluation rubrics to grade writing assignments
  • Integrate computer technology into the curriculum, including a Learning Web page.

Lone Star Community College: 2006-Present

  • Adjunct English Faculty
  • Teach Composition I and II, American and World Literature
  • Prepare original syllabi, lesson plans and composition assignments
  • Use original evaluation rubrics to grade writing assignments

High School English Teacher

Katy High SchoolKaty, TX2008-Present

  • Prepare, teach and evaluate 3-4 Dual Credit (college-level) Composition I and II classes.

Spring Woods High SchoolHouston, TX2007-2008

  • Prepared, taught and evaluated Dual Credit (college-level) Composition I and II classes.

Shotwell Middle SchoolHouston, TX1998-2000

  • Taught and evaluated 8th grade English and Computer classes.

College Teaching Assistant

University of Houston 2000-2003

  • Prepared and evaluated Distance Education website for Shakespeare classes.
  • Taught Composition I and II courses and Graduate ESL Workshop.

English Tutor

Sylvan Learning Center 2001-2002

Kids Hope, USA 2006-2007

EDUCATION:

Master of Arts in Literature: University of Houston; 2006. (85 hours)

  • Courses and Research Topics: English Romanticism I and II; Blake Seminar; Rhetoric; Teaching ESL; Latin (3 semesters); American Realism and Naturalism; Sociolinguistics; Early American Literature; Post-Colonial Literature

Master of Arts in Teaching: Sacred Heart University, 1996. (42 hours)

  • Courses: Multicultural Education; Computers in Education; Special Needs Students; Solving Discipline Problems

Bachelor of Arts in English: Bates College, 1994.

HONORS, AWARDS AND CERTIFICATES:

  • Graduate Assistant Teaching Fellowship (2000-2003)
  • Stella Ehrhardt/Cullen Fellowship (2000)
  • Texas Educator Certificate:Secondary English (1999-Life)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

  • “Landscape and the Environment: New Approaches to Teaching Cooper.” (February 2002) Texas Tech GES Conference, Lubbuck, TX.
  • “Lighten Up, Hank! Romance and Repression inn Henry James’ Fiction.” (March 2003) University of South Carolina Conference: Repression and Subversion in the 19th Century. Columbia, S.C.

REFERENCES:

Houston Community College System

Stafford Campus, 10141 Cash Rd.

Stafford, TX 77477

  • Marie Dybala(713)
  • Genevieve Coogan(713)

Lone Star Community College

CyFair Campus, 9191 Barker Cypress Rd.

Cypress, TX 77433

  • Heather Mitchell(281)

Katy High School

6331 Highway Blvd.

Katy, TX 77494

  • Dr. Alton Royer(281)

INTERESTS and HOBBIES:

Volunteer work for church, Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity

Drama, both film and theater

American Literature and fiction especially after World War II

Teaching English as a Second Language