Ananda has loved teaching since she had her first job teaching English in Brazil as a 16-year-old. Below are some classes she taught and related teaching experiences: (For more on her background in language and linguistics, click here instead)
Mentorship:
NYFA Artist Mentor (Literary Arts), New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artists Mentoring Program: Newark, Spring 2019
Mentor (Fiction) – Adroit Journal’s Summer Mentorship Program, Summer 2018.
Instructor Positions:
Part-time Lecturer – Writers at Newark I and II (creative writing undergraduate course), Rutgers University, Newark, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
Adjunct Faculty – Portuguese, Montclair State University, Department of Spanish and Italian, Spring 2014
Photography Instructor – private group class for mothers and their children (article here and here), Spring 2014
Adjunct Faculty – English as a Second Language (ESL, ESL Comp), Union County College, Fall 2009 – Summer 2011
Adjunct Faculty – ESL, Hudson County Community College, Fall 2010
Instructor – Portuguese, Baruch College Continuing and Professional Studies (CAPS), Summer 2009
Instructor – Ling 5 (Languages of the World), UCLA Extension, Fall 2007
Instructor – Ling 20 (Introduction to Linguistics), UCLA, Summer 2007
Instructor – Ling 20 (Introduction to Linguistics), UCLA, Summer 2006
Instructor – English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Number One, Brasilia, 1998
Instructor – EFL, Latin American Institute of Languages, Brasilia, 1998 and 2000 (Brazilian Summer)
Instructor – EFL, Elite Institute, Brasilia 1997
Instructor – EFL, Mnemo System, Brasilia 1996
Teaching Assistant (TA) Positions:
TA – Ling 165B (Syntax II), taught by Prof. Hilda Koopman, UCLA, Spring 2007
TA – Ling 165B (Syntax II), taught by Prof. Dominique Sportiche, UCLA, Winter 2007
TA – Ling 20 (Introduction to Linguistics), taught by Prof. Bruce Hayes, UCLA, Fall 2006
TA – Ling 127 (Syntactic Typology), taught by Dr. Aaron Sonnenschein, UCLA, Spring 2006
TA – Ling 1 (Introduction to Language), taught by Prof. Philippe Schlenker, UCLA, Winter 2006
TA – Ling 120B (Syntax I), taught by Prof. Dominique Sportiche and Prof. Ed Stabler, UCLA, Fall 2006
Other Teaching Positions:
Online course director and content creator (Portuguese and ESL), Mango Languages, 2007- 2008
(Undergraduate) Academic ESL and Linguistics Tutor, UCLA Athletic Tutorials, Summer and Fall 2002
Relevant Conference Presentation:
“Student Created Assessment for Creative, Independent, Self-Motivated Learners.” Emerging Learning Design Conference, Montclair, NJ, 2014
Teaching Coursework:
ACUE’s Certificate in Effective College Instruction – curriculum and practice using researched-based teaching techniques – Rutgers-University Newark, Fall 2017
Teaching Assistant Consultant (TAC) qualification to train TAs, UCLA Instructional Development, Fall 2007
College teaching of linguistics (teaching methods for teaching assistants), UCLA Linguistics Department, 2005
In-house teacher training programs on ESL at Number One (1998) and Mnemo System (1996).
Other relevant teaching experiences:
Leading kick off training sessions and ongoing training of clients and employees on operating Oracle Knowledge language-based search, information manager and analytics as a Consultant Language Architect at Infogain (Summer 2013) and Language Engineer (InQuira, 2008-2009).
Member of the UCLA Linguistics Teaching Evaluation Committee, 2004-2005
Reading Group organizer and leader – Student and faculty reading group on Minimalist Syntax, University of Queensland, 2003
Private tutor (ESL, Portuguese, Photography, Linguistics) intermittently, 1998-2016