High School English Teacher

Erik Huber

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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

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