Teaching

Collegiate Forensics

After having competed for four years with the George Mason University Forensics Team I then became a coach and had to teach many of the skills I had mastered: sounding naturally while informing or explaining, boiling down concepts and arguments to accessible barest essentials, even learning how to appreciate what each student or speaker might bring to the table.

George Mason Institute of Forensics

If Collegiate Forensics proper was learning about teaching, GMIF was about refining that. There was no real teacher training to this: it was about learning how to transmit any skills you had and lessons learn, and tailor them to students. It was about working, from a Lab Floater, to Lab Assistant in two different curricular areas, to Co-Running Lab Minors... and all the while having fun?

Korea International Speech Competition

I was part of a group from George Mason University that was sent to South Korea  to judge the Second International Speech Competiton and to also deliver lectures on public speaking for the participants.

Learning Through LEGO

Be it through my time at the LEGO Store, my time manning tables at BrickFair, or. even my efforts to portray essay structures, LEGO has allowed me to use one of my lifelong passions as a way to develop another one of my lifelong callings.

Willard Intermediate

My first year as a teacher forced me to become a student in so many ways, but a mix of a creative curriculum and nurturing style meant that I was able to look upon that year at Willard fondly enough to share with newer teachers the lessons I learned.

Seneca Valley

Seneca Valley became home. I taught almost all grade-levels, assigned and then broke from specific projects, and ultimately left with many students thanking me - as I thanked them for changing me for the better.