With Haley Belsher: MA, RPC and Quang Nguyen: MA, TESL
What one teaching tool will we always find you with?
Haley: You will always find me using improv, dance, theater, or otherwise embodied teaching tools.
Quang: PowerPoint.
If you could share one sentence of advice with newer teachers, what would it be?
Haley: If you are quiet, either practice shouting and projecting or use a microphone.
Quang: Read the Repository carefully, understand the rationale of students’ reading requirements, prepare lesson plans carefully, use PowerPoint and don’t hesitate to ask for help if you don’t understand anything.
What’s something you are passionate about (outside of ISUCOMM)?
Haley: I’m really passionate about making things, especially artistic things. I would only call myself particularly skilled in writing, of these, but I connect to different media at different times, so make lots of different things. Soon, my office will have drawers with paintings on them!
Quang: Teaching pronunciation.
What is your most frequently used emoji?
Haley: ❤️
Quang: 😄
If you had your own late-night talk show, who would you invite as your first guest?
Haley: I think Will Wood would make for a very interesting conversation.
Quang: Professor John Levis
If you had to sing karaoke, what song would you pick?
Haley: I love karaoke. If I’m warmed up, “Happier than Ever” by Billie Eilish. If I’m not warmed up, probably one of her easier songs, like “My Future.”
Quang: Depend on the audience (always remember the “who” question).
What is your teaching philosophy, at present?
Haley: Right now, I believe that students will be best equipped to write in higher level scenarios if they learn to trust their instincts. So, I plan to teach students to view revision as starting right after the first shoddy draft, and I plan to teach them skills that they can find by moving.
What are you excited to teach in 150/250?
Quang: Everything! I enjoy every moment and every aspects of the teaching. It is a completely new experience for me after 20 years being a teacher.
