department of English
Announcements
English Department Award Winners 2011-2012
The Proficiency
Award in Teacher Preparation
The Performance Award in Critical Analysis
Service Award in Professional Communication
Angie Sapp
The Service Award in Professional Communication recognizes outstanding work on service learning projects and peer collaboration. Angie Sapp is this year's recipient. Angie is a mom, a daughter, a worker, and a student, yet she consistently demonstrates her willingness to sacrifice her time in order to help fellow students succeed. In one class alone, Angie spent a great deal of time in the computer lab tutoring her peers, and she was always the first to respond to her peers' questions posted online. Equally, important, Angie has demonstrated her ability to work with clients on service learning projects and deliver quality projects.The Proficiency Award in Teacher Preparation
Vashelle Nino
The Proficiency Award in Teacher Preparation recognizes exceptional promise as a teaching professional. The recipient will be a student who not only knows her subject, but who also cares about students, strives to ensure each student's success, and demonstrates the qualities necessary to fit into the total culture of a school system. Vashelle Nino has demonstrated these qualities in her total performance at Texas A & M-Central Texas. Most particular, her enthusiasm for the classroom (as a student and a teacher), her dedication to the profession, and her willingness to let her enthusiasm and dedication benefit her classmates (and presumably her students) all make her a deserving recipient of this year's Proficiency Award in Teacher Preparation.The Performance Award in Critical Analysis
Margaret Harvey
The Performance Award in Critical Analysis recognizes research able to balance theory and description in support of an original argument. The recipient will be a student who utilizes some part of one specific theoretical framework in such a way that the text being explored becomes reconstituted. Margaret Harvey accomplished this difficult task in the Senior Seminar class she took in the spring of 2011. Her final paper introduced critical ideas from cultural studies to promote a reappraisal of the marginalized in three plays from August Wilson's Century Cycle. The end result was the type of project one would hope might emerge in a senior seminar, one that balanced the experiences of several classes into one extended project.Secondary Students Pass State Exam
The English Department is pleased to announce that Kenia Chacon, Vashelle Nino, and Angelo Rilleria all successfully passed their 8-12 ELA TExES exam this semester. We are proud of their performance on this test and the steps they took to realize this success. Each of them has taken advantage of the opportunities education presents. We say to all three, "Job well done!"
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