Archive for ‘Humanities’
Meet Lauren Freer
Lauren Freer will join Avenues as Middle School humanities teacher with a focus on English. She has taught English to grades seven and eight at Trinity School (New York) and The Dwight School (New York). At Trinity, she designed curriculum and taught English and More...
CATEGORY: People
Tags: Faculty, Humanities, Middle School, Teacher Bio, Teacher Video
Meet Erin Finn-Welch
Erin Finn-Welch will join Avenues as the head of grade for the fifth grade. She comes to us from Greenwich Academy (GA), where she has been teaching English for the last eight years. Most recently, she has been fifth grade team leader, overseeing the programmatic needs of the grade. More...
Tags: 5th Grade, Faculty, Humanities, Middle School, Teacher Bio, Teacher Video
Meet Jonathan Wang
Jonathan Wang will join Avenues as a humanities teacher with a focus on English in the Upper School. For the last four years, he has been an instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH. In addition to teaching grades 9-12, he has created a new elective course More...
Tags: Faculty, Humanities, Teacher Bio, Upper School
Meet Tiffany Trotter
Tiffany D. Trotter will join Avenues as ninth grade head of grade and a humanities teacher with a focus on history. She comes to us from Phillips Exeter Academy, where she has taught since 2003. Courses included U.S. history, 20th century world history and classical histories of Greece and Rome. More...
Tags: 9th Grade, Faculty, Humanities, Teacher Bio, Upper School
A Short Video Interview with Sharan Shah
Yesterday we introduced Sharan Shah, head of grade seven and a humanities teacher with an English focus. In this short interview Sharan talks about the challenges Middle School students face and the joy of watching them make connections. To see Sharan's bio, click here. More...
CATEGORY: People
Tags: 7th Grade, Faculty, Humanities, Middle School, Teacher Video
Meet Sharan Shah
Sharan Shah will join Avenues as the head of grade seven and a humanities teacher with a focus on English. She joins us from the Special Music School in New York City, a public school for musically gifted children from kindergarten through grade eight. In addition to teaching, she developed curriculum for More...
Tags: 7th Grade, Faculty, Humanities, Middle School, Teacher Bio
Congratulations to Mike Levy
Mike Levy, curriculum specialist for the World Course and humanities teacher, was honored earlier in March by Barnes & Noble. His book, Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Half Billion, won first prize in the non-fiction category for first works by an author in the Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” contest for 2011. More...
Tags: Faculty, Humanities, World Course
Meet Tiffany Reedy
In September, Tiffany Reedy will join Avenues as a Middle School humanities teacher with a history focus. For the past two years, she has been an associate fifth grade teacher at the Brearley School, a girls’ school in New York City, where she helps write and teach history, geography, English and advisory curricula. More...
Tags: Faculty, Humanities, Middle School, Teacher Bio
What if Willy Loman Were Chinese? Teaching Literature Across Cultures
Two summers ago I was teaching in Chaoyang, the throbbing district at the center of Beijing. Chaoyang literally means “facing the sun,” and any August day lets you know the name is depressingly apt; the short walk from the subway to the skyscraper that contained my classroom typically left me breathless and drenched with sweat. I was teaching a group More...
CATEGORY: Featured, School 2.0
Tags: Global, Humanities, Middle School
Teaching Grammar as Craft (Not Correctness)
I can still remember Mr. Schmunkler’s chalky hands diagramming sentence after sentence on the blackboard of my seventh grade English class. The chalk dust, a yellowish white, powdered the pockets of his pants and coated the tip of his tie. That was the first year that not only Warriner’s High School Handbook, with its orangey red cover, rarely left my side but also that I perched a pair of eyeglasses on the bridge of More...
CATEGORY: School 2.0
Tags: Humanities, Middle School, Upper School