Teaching MacGyver to Write

Authors

  • Victoria Opalewski Wichita State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62704/nkcgz006

Abstract

When I started my career, I was positive I would be flawless and effective. English was really one of the only things I loved and was good at, so my students would easily pick it up as I taught.

Sounds pretty on paper, doesn't it?

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Author Biography

  • Victoria Opalewski, Wichita State University

    Victoria Opalewski is a Clinical Educator for the School of Education at Wichita State University, specifically working with the middle/secondary team. Previously, she taught English and public speaking at the high school level and coached forensics and Academic Decathlon speaking and
    interviewing; she also directed plays in Wisconsin, substituted in Iowa, and taught at Hutchinson Community College. Writing and reading are two of her favorite pastimes, but family, cooking, and traveling,often all three at once,are the biggest part of her life. Obnoxiously optimistic is the way she most often describes herself. She can be reached at victoria.opalewski@wichita.edu.

Kansas English Journal Volume 98, Number 1

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Published

2018-07-19

Issue

Vol. 99 (2018)

Section

Reflective Essays