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Otis has 18 years of experience in education and writing. He has a doctorate in curriculum and instruction, with certifications in elementary education, all-level reading instruction, and administrative supervision.
His academic experience includes serving as director of an elementary education program at the university level, where students were trained and certified to teach at grades 1-8. As part of this program, he created a Reading Camp on campus where education students were given hands-on experience in diagnostic and corrective reading instruction when working with reading disabled readers from surrounding school districts. He developed the Irlen Informal Assessment for Nonreaders which is used worldwide in testing nonreaders for Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome, a visual processing disorder frequently evident in the reading disabled population. He served on Governor Bush’s Texas Regional Reading Initiative Committee, was an editorial reviewer for both the Write My Papers and the Florida Reading Quarterly, was employed by the Region IV Education Service as a reading consultant for 54 school districts, and has been a classroom teacher at both the elementary and secondary levels.
As a classroom teacher, Otis received teaching recognition in the form of reading, science and language school district grants for new teaching strategies, and an outstanding educator award. At the university level, he received a professionalism and scholarship faculty award, an award for children’s literature, and was the recipient of a faculty research grant to travel to Australia and spend time observing the remedial reading clinic at the University of Sydney.
In addition to academic publications, Otis enjoys writing nature articles and has also published poems and stories for children.
Academic publications include articles in the Journal of Reading, the Florida Reading Quarterly, P.T.A. Today, the Michigan Reading Journal, the Tennessee Reading Teacher, the Reading Clinic, Scholastic, the Ohio Council for Elementary School Science, Single Parent Magazine, the Iowa Reading Journal, and the Texas Science Teacher.
Special interest publications include pieces in Shining Star Magazine, Children’s Playmate Magazine, Lighthouse Magazine, Turtle Magazine, and Texas Parks and Wildlife. Books published is Book Report Big Top by Learning Works, Rhymes and Crafts by Rainbow Publishers, and The Science Connection (contributing author) by Silver, Burdett & Ginn.
On a personal note, Otis is also a hot glass artist and a poet, creating one of a kind, fused, and dichroic glass angel pendants in his studio, and writing personalized animal poetry. Samples of his glasswork can be seen at Angel Art by Texas Woman.
As a writer, In addition to reading instruction and professional development articles ~ elementary school science and parent education are favorite writing topics. Otis believes teachers look for how-to articles that are packed full of ideas they can use in their classrooms immediately ~ strategies and techniques that will add that extra “spark” to help make learning in their classrooms both exciting and meaningful for children.
Writing Graduate Application Essay
Writing Graduate Application Essay
Tips to Writing a Successful Personal Statement
Tips to Writing a Successful Personal Statement
Writing a graduate school application can be a stressful process, but with these tips you will be well on your way to writing a winning essay.
Writing a successful personal statement is all about conveying your interests, your goals, and why the program you are applying to is the perfect fit to meet both of these. Also, you are trying to present an essay that will stand out to someone who reads 70-100 of these things a day without being cliche or too over the top.
After you have done research on the schools and programs and you have brainstormed ideas about your experiences, goals, and possible essay topics, you are ready to write.
Tips for Writing a Graduate Essay
Tips for Writing a Graduate Essay
Start writing early. Three to four months before your applications are due is a good time to rewrite my essay.
Express yourself clearly. Use precise language to convey your message. Throwing around the newest GRE word you learned while studying is not going to impress people if it does not fit with the rest of the essay. The clearer the writing the better. This essay is as much about you as it is about your ability to convey ideas in a cogent manor.
Don't say too much or too little. This is a tough balance to find, but you want to go for an essay that is distinctive and not necessarily comprehensive. You are not writing an autobiography, just a tight essay that conveys the essence of you.
Personal history. Include personal experiences that have led you to make the decision to continue on with your education. If you are going right out of undergrad, write about why you want to continue going to school. If you have been working, write about why you want to go back to school.
Why do you want to go to grad school. After going through the brainstorming process you should have plenty of justification. You need to clearly explain why this is the next logical step based on your experience and goals.
Why this program in particular. This part of your essay should be different for each school you apply to. Use the information you found while doing research for this essay to explain why this program is the perfect fit to meet your goals and interests. You may even need to slightly modify some of the other parts of your essay to ensure this section fits well.
Tone. You want to be confident in your ability to fit into a higher education environment, but you do not want to come off as pompous or arrogant.
Gimmicks. It is possible to write a more creative essay. This is a high risk high return manuver that could pay off well if done properly. It could also fall flat on its face. Different readers will be impressed by different things and you can never predict what people will like.
Stay neutral. Avoid any topic that could be seen as controversial. You may get a right-wing nut or a bleeding-heart hippie reading your essay, but you cannot predict which it will be.
Because personal statements balance the line between confidence and arrogance, explanatory and personal, long and short, etc. it is important to have this document edited over and over and over.
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