PERSONAL
Experienced College Instructor With Excellent
Student And Peer
Reviews; Personable And
Articulate; Team Player Familiar With
Group Teaching Techniques; Skilled In Handling Classes
Composed Of Students Of
Varying Skills And Motivation;
Sincere Pride In My Teaching Abilities; Knowledge
Of
Latest Teaching Techniques
EDUCATION
2001
MA in Spanish
College of Arts and Sciences
State University of New York
University at Albany, NY
1995-1997
SUNY College at
New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Graduate
Courses in Spanish Literature
GPA:
3.9 on a Scale of 4.0
1984-1990
Università di
Urbino (Italy), Faculty of Modern Languages;
July
1990 Dottore in Lettere e Filosofia (Doctorate in
English,
French and Italian)
GPA: 110 on a Scale of 110
1980-1984
Liceo Linguistico di Urbino (Italy), Maturità Linguistica
(Bachelor of Arts Degree in Foreign Languages).
EMPLOYMENT
1999-Prsent
Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Languages
1993-1999 Dutchess County Community College,
Poughkeepsie, NY
Adjunct
Professor of Italian, French and Spanish Languages
1995-1999
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Adjunct
Instructor of Italian
1995/1997
SUNY College at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Adjunct
Instructor of Italian Language
1994-1997 The Academy High School, New Platz, NY
Foreign
Language Instructor - French, Spanish,
Latin and German
1988-1991
SUNY College at New Paltz; New Paltz NY
Tutored
Italian, French and Spanish
1988-1989 SUNY College at New
Paltz; New Paltz, NY
Italian
Language Teaching Assistant
1985-1988 Tutored Italian High school students in
written Italian,
English, French, German and Spanish
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Windows - Class Handouts
and Test Generation - Experienced User
Netscape Communicator - Class
Material Research - Experienced User
E-Mail - Various Systems -
Communication With Students/Peers - Experienced User
LANGUAGES
Italian -
Native Speaker
English -
Fluent
Spanish -
Fluent
French -
Fluent
German -
Conversational
Professional
Memberships
AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish
and Portuguese)
AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian)
HCC (Highland Cultural Center)
NIDO
(Noi Italiani D’Oggi / We Italians of Today)
Technology and
Pedagogy
Completion of a professional Web Page set up
to help DCC students and community.
The page is complete with syllabi of classes, a self-test bank for
students taking the telecourse Destinos in Spanish, links related to
grammar and cultural topics and a multi-media page.
Professional Papers
Presented
Jan. 1996
NIDO Cultural Series, Poughkeepsie, NY :
Introduction to Italian Modern Writers: Paolo Volponi.
Apr. 1996
Ulster BOCES, New Paltz, NY :
BOCES Sponsored Cultural Awareness Series: The Italian School System.
Nov. 1998
ACTFL Convention, Chicago, IL:
Paolo Volponi:
Alienation and Eschatological
Process in the
Narrative Structure and as Mirror Image of Social Realities.
Nov. 1999
ACTFL Convention, Dallas, TX:
Francesco Leonetti:
Poet and Prose Writer of Transgression.
Nov.
2000
ACTFL Convention- Boston, MA :
“Let’s go to Italy”: A Web Resource Program for students of Italian.
The presentation involved demonstration on the computer of the usage
of the virtual itinerary of the program made by students in their first year
of learning Italian. The project,
developed in the Department of Italian at Vassar College for its students, will
be accessible to anyone once on the WWW.
Nov. 2001
ACTFL Convention- Washington, DC.
Construct a Personal Web Page that Allows your Students to Develop Language
Skills Through Virtual and Interactive Practive Sections
