Michael D. Hall
I am an enthusiastic, dedicated and dependable individual who is goal-oriented and works well either alone or with others. I am neat, well organized and I set high standards for myself.
ACCREDITATIONS
Valid Texas Life Provisional Secondary Teachers License in English, English Language Arts, journalism, History and the Gifted and Talented.
EMPLOYMENT
The Brownsville Herald, Brownsville, Texas. Copy editor, 10/2000 - present
University of Texas-Brownsville, Brownsville, Texas. Adjunct English instructor. 8/2000 – present . Teaching a Writing Lab II class for one night a week and a Writing Skills II class, which meets twice a week, in the English Department.
Los Fresnos Consolidated ISD, Los Fresnos, Texas . English/Language Arts teacher. 8/1999 - 5/2000. Taught three eighth grade English classes at the Los Cuates Middle School campus. Instruction centered on preparation for the TAAS writing and reading tests. Also was UIL OneAct Play director.
University of Texas-Brownsville, Brownsville, Texas. Adjunct English instructor. 1/1993 - 12/1995 Taught Writing Lab II classes for two nights a week in the English Department. The classes prepared the students for the writing portion of the TASP test.
Brownsville ISD, Brownsville, Texas
* Faulk Middle School, 8/1992 - 6/1999
English teacher. The first two years at Faulk Middle School, I taught six classes of 8th grade English, with an emphasis on writing and the writing process, along with grammar incorporated. I moved to sixth grade when the school became a middle school. Taught Gifted and Talented class last five years. UIL One Act Play director and founder/sponsor of High Tech Zoomers GT Club. Twice nominated as a campus representative for Teacher of the Year.
* James Pace High School 8/1991 - 5/1992. English teacher/Yearbook Advisor. Also taught two sophomore English classes and one senior British literature class.
MSD of Southwest Allen County, Fort Wayne, Indiana 1/1991 - 5/1991, student teacher. George Dicken, Homestead High School's publications advisor. Worked with journalism related classes including newspaper and advanced photography. I taught three beginning photography classes and units of two English classes.
The Southern Sentinel, Ripley, Mississippi. 1/1987 - 2/1987, photographer/reporter
for 7,000 circulation weekly newspaper, and did most of the photography and darkroom
work. Other newspapers include:
Community Publishers, Inc., Bentonville, Arkansas, 2/1985 - 11/1986 chief photographer; Leesville Daily Leader, Leesville, Lousiana, 7/1984 - 8/1984, sports editor, chief photograper, reporter; The Holmes County Farmer-Hub, Millersburg, Ohio, 5/1980 - 11/1981, reporter/photographer for a weekly newspaper that also served as a bureau to the main daily publication; The Greensburg Daily News, Greensburg, Indiana, 5/1979 - 4/1980, began as sports editor, moved to reporter/photographer, and chief photographer.
EDUCATION
Present - Institute of Children's Literature, West Redding, Connecticut. Certification. I am currently taking a correspondence class for writing and publishing children's literature.
8/1996 Texas A& M University –Galveston, Galveston, Texas.
Certification. In two summers, I completed five week - long classes equivalent to a semester each to earn my Gifted and Talented teaching endorsement.
5/1991 Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Certification
Journalism as major and English as a minor.
5/1983 Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Masters Degree.
Completed a two-year masters program with a major in electronic Journalism.
5/1979 Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Bachelors Degree.
Finished a bachelors degree program in photojournalism with minors in history, general business administration, and natural resources.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS/
ORGANIZATIONS
12/1998- present . Have a web site of my poetry called “A World of Words with Elias Tobias”, with 10 collections on line so far. See "Eliastobias.tripod.com" for detailed biography and other links.
1/2001 - Began first Internet business-Mike's Book Cafe, a distributor of books, cassette tapes and CD-ROMs designed for personal and business success. Created all web sites, including a newsletter web site, to link to sales web site established by Future World, the parent company.
2/1998 - Outstanding Young Men of America, biography in 1998 edition.
1999, Marquis Who's Who in the World, 16 th edition ; April 1998, Dictionary of International Biography, 26th edition; 1/1997 - Marquis Who's Who in the South and Southwest, biography in 25th anniversary edition.
Started the High Tech Zoomers GT Club at Faulk Middle School, and had it three years. Sixth grade GT class published book of Brownsville history, Brownsville, Yesterday and Today in spring of 1998 through BISD.
Placed first place in UIL One Act Play competition 1997-98, third place in 1999-2000.
Spring, 1995, published second limited printing of A Poetry Sampler-100% Natural Words, by Elias Tobias.
2/1/1994 – Present, International Society of Poets, Distinguished member.
9/1/1993 – Present, Association of Texas Professional Educators, Convention delegate, 1999 in Austin, Texas. Former campus representative.
9/1/1989 – 5/1991, Ball State Literature Foundation Founder and first editor. A computerized on-line poetry and story magazine on the VAX system at BSU.
The Associated Press Managing Editors Association of Arkansas, second place, Division 1, photojournalism, May 1986. Arkansas Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, third place and honorable mention, feature photograph, July 1986.
2/1/1984 – Present, Kappa Alpha Tau Journalism Honorary, BSU Chapter.
6/1/1980 - 10/1/1981, Millersburg (Ohio) Area Jaycees, Secretary, Jaycee of the Year, 1981.
Feature Editor of The Triangle, the Columbus North High School (Columbus, IN) newspaper 1974-75; named Most Improved Journalist, 1975; member of Quill and Scroll, an international high school journalism honorary society.
Co-editor of Write-On, literary supplement to The Triangle, 1973-74. Attended a two-week journalism workshop at Western Kentucky University, summer of 1974.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
Interests include cowboys and the West, music (pop, rock, jazz, country, cowboy), photography, camping, computer internet use and desktop publishing/graphics and gardening.
