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Tim Myers
Tim Myers:
Teaching
Tim was a high-school and middle-school teacher for 14 years in the U.S. and overseas, teaching English and history/social studies as well as coaching. He's been a university lecturer for 23 years in both English and teacher education. He spent two years teaching at CSU Bakersfield, seven at SUNY Plattsburgh (NY), and is now in his fourteenth at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley, near San Jose, California, where he teaches in the English department as a senior lecturer. He's given numerous in-services and other educational presentations.
His current faculty webpage is at www.scu.edu/profiles/?p=4282.
At university level, he's taught the following courses:
Literature Across the Curriculum
Introduction to Teaching in the Secondary School
The Study of Teaching
Storytelling for Teachers
Writing for Teachers
Exploring Educational Issues through Writing
Writing in the Educational Community
Reading in the Content Areas
Composition and Rhetoric 1 & 2
Critical Thinking & Writing 1 & 2: Rock Pop Hip-Hop
General Methods, Secondary Education
Children's Literature
Adolescent Culture through Literature
Storytelling
Advanced Writing: Myth, Fairy Tale, Urban Legend, Etc.:
Exploring Transrealist Story
Language Arts/Literacy
Creative Writing for Children and Adolescents