RobertDowden

Hello fellow peers and pears!

My name is Robert Dowden, though most people know me as RJ. I am a first year student at Kent State pursuing a Master’s in Higher Education Administration, as well as two certificates: College Teaching and International Education. I serve as a graduate assistant in the Gerald H. Read Center for International & Intercultural Education and as an intern in the Office of Global Education.

I will be co-teaching a course titled Academic Orientation to the Discipline (EVAL 68795/88795) in spring 2013, a course designed to acclimate graduate-level international students to higher education in the United States. The other instructor is Elizabeth Bosworth. Over the duration of this course, students and instructors will collaborate to develop skills pertaining to making formal presentations, utilizing library resources, English writing, and reading comprehension. This course is also meant to serve a comparative function, in which students will learn to identify academic standards, perceptions of plagiarism, classroom etiquette, and classroom culture here in the United States.

Please feel free to contact me with questions. And my teaching portfolio can be viewed at []