Erik Huber
Brooklyn NY, 11222
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EDUCATION
Iowa Writers Workshop 1989 - 1991
MFA in Fiction, James Michener Teaching and Writing Fellowship
Center For Advanced Film Studies, American Film Institute
1985 - 1987
MFA in Screenwriting
Brown University 1980 -
1984
BA, Magna cum Laude, in American Studies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
English Department Chair
SAR High School, New York, NY
9/10- 6/13
. Coordinated and directed grade level teams for curriculum
development
and tuning, vertical alignment, review of student work and best
practices
. Conducted teacher observations, hired new teachers, managed
teachers
. Shepherded department through NYSAIS accreditation process
Founding English Teacher
SAR High School, New York, NY 9/02 -
present
. Designed curriculum and taught ninth and eleventh grade English,
AP Literature and Composition, Writers Workshop, Middle Eastern
Film, and Advisory
. Advisor to Literary Magazine, Coach of Debate Team
Yeshiva University High School for Boys, New York NY
9/97 - 6/02
New York University, School for Continuing and Professional Studies
9/92 - 8/97
. Planned and taught Developmental Writing, Writer's Workshop, Creative
Writing, and Screenwriting to adult undergraduates.
Sacred Hearts High School, Touliu, Taiwan
9/91- 6/92
. ESL and writing teacher, all grades
Education Instructor
New York City Teaching Fellows and Teach For America (Pace campus)
9/04 - 6/06
. Guided three cohorts of new teachers through their first year in the
classroom
. Oversaw students' unit and lesson planning, classroom instruction and
assessment
. Guided students through reflections on their first year of teaching,
pushed
them to believe in student abilities and helped them find imaginative
ways to
engage students, locate proximal zone of development, and promote
achievement.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
AP Annual Conference, 2006, 2010, 2013
College Board One Day Intensive AP Lit and Comp Workshops, 2010, 2013
Great Books/Socratic Seminars, 2007, 2010, 2013
Shakespeare Teaches Teachers, 2011: Folger Theater
Adolescent Study Group, 2006-8: led by Cecilia Traugh, Dean of
Education, LIU