Dr. Kia Jane Richmond

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Selected Courses I've taught at NMU since 2001

  •            English 110 Good Books

  •          English 111 College Composition

  •            English 200 Grammar and Usage for Teachers

  •            English 205 Introduction to Professional Writing

  •            English 211B Narrative and Descriptive Writing

  •            English 304 Teaching of the English Language (English Ed)

  •            English 309 Teaching of Writing (English Ed)

  •            English 350 Teaching of English (English Ed)

  •            English 462/Education 462 Literature for Young Adults

  •            English 498/598 Directed Studies

  •            English 510 Seminar in Composition

  •            Education 450 Seminar in Student Teaching

  •            Education 495 Portfolios and Pedagogy

  • "Using Literature to Confront the Stigma of Mental Illness, Teach Empathy, and Break Stereotypes," Language Arts Journal of Michigan (2014): Vol. 30: Iss. 1, Article 6.
    Available at:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.9707/2168-149X.2038

     

  • “The Look of Classic (YA) Literature.” (with Brown, A., Mitchell, J. F. et al.) The ALAN Review (2014): 41(2), 6-14.

     

  • "The Future of Writing Teacher Education," with M. Kilian McCurrie, Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 4.  (2012)

    Available at: http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wte/vol1/iss1/4

     

  • "Imagining Insects: Integrating the Fine Arts into Writing, Literature, and Science through Project-based Learning Activities," with Michael J. Letts, Language Arts Journal of Michigan: Vol. 28: Iss. 1, Article 9. (2012) Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.9707/2168-149X.1930

     

  • “Foreword” to Mary Anna Kruch’s Tend Your Garden: Nurturing Motivation in Young Adolescent Writers. (Equinox, 2011).

     

  • E-Met - Electronic Michigan English Teacher Newsletter. (September, October, December issues 2010; January, March, April, May issues 2011), “President’s Update.”

 

  • Language Arts Journal of Michigan (Spring/Summer 2010 Issue),”Difference Can Make a Differencewith Doug Baker.

     

  • Language Arts Journal of Michigan (Spring/Summer 2010 Issue), “Pam Munoz Ryan’s The Dreamer: Opportunities for Reflection and Extension” with Robert T. DeChambeau.

 

  • Language Arts Journal of Michigan (Spring/Summer 2009 Issue), “Possibilities and Challenges of Perspective(s)” with Doug Baker.

     

  • Language Arts Journal of Michigan (Fall/Winter 2009 Issue), “Multiliteracies and Writing” with Doug Baker.

     

  • E-Met (December 2009 issue), “Teacher Spotlight: Sal Barrientes, Jr.”

     

  •  “Preparing Students for Twenty-First Century Literacy.” With W. Douglas Baker. Language Arts Journal of Michigan Spring/Summer 2008 (4).

 

  • “Crossing Boundaries: English Education, Teaching Writing, and Connections to the Real World.” In Closing the Gap: English Educators Address the Tensions between Teacher Preparation and Teaching Writing in the Secondary School. Eds. Karen Keaton Jackson and Sandy Vavra. (Language, Literature, and Learning Series). Information Age Publishing. (September 2007).

 

  • “Composition Studies/English Education Connections.” 2007.  (with W. Douglas Baker, Elizabeth Brockman, and Jonathan Bush). The Writing Instructor. www.writinginstructor.com

 

  • "Becoming Centered: CEE Membership and Program Development" (by Jill Van Antwerp and Allen Webb with Tonya Perry, Kia Jane Richmond, and David Schaafsma).  English Education 38.4 (July 2006).

 

  • “Tapping Creativity in the English Classroom” in “What Works for Me.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 33.4 (May 2006): 462.

 

  • Introduction as Guest Editor. “Making Writing Matter.” Language Arts Journal of Michigan 21.1 (Spring/Summer 2005): 4-5. 

 

  • “Multiple Intelligences and Young Adult Literature: An Extended Conversation” (with Johanna

Delorey) Language Arts Journal of Michigan 20.2 (Fall/Winter 2004): 23-30.

 

  • Questioning Our Methods: Report on the Commission on English Methods Teaching and Learning” (with Alyson Whyte).  In “Conversations from the Commissions.”  Lynne Alvine, editor. English Education 36.4 (July 2004): 324- 28.

 

  • “An Unspoken Trust – Violated?” Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning 9 Winter 2003-2004): 58-63.

 

  • “Academic Service Learning in an English Methods Class: A Practical Approach.” Language Arts Journal of Michigan 19.1 (2003): 8-12.

 

  • “Repositioning Emotions in Composition Studies.” Composition Studies 30.1 (2002): 67-82.

 

  • “What a University Writing Course Really Looks Like.”  Illinois Association of Teachers of English

       Bulletin.  Spring 2000.  (Neuleib, Janice and Claire C. Lamonica (with Toni Castellon, Mike

       Martin, Killian McCurrie, Lee Nickoson, Petros Panoue, Kia Richmond, and Amy Ward). 

 

  • “Believing and Doubting and Dialectic in the First-Year College Composition Classroom: Elbow’s Influence on One Teacher’s Pedagogy.”  Issues in Writing 10.2 (2000): 135-51.

 

  • “The Ethics of Empathy: Making Connections in the Writing Classroom.”  Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning 5 (Winter 1999-2000): 37-46.




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