Services I Provide :
Educator/Inservice Lecture. School Visits. Manuscript Critiques.
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Online Class
I teach online classes (available to anyone) through the Mississippi Bend Area Education Association. The classes are offered as an online instructor-led course or in a self-paced structure. The classes are entitled: (click title to register)
Picture Books to Augment Your Curriculum and Writing Exercises to Boost Creativity
Creative Writing: Crafting Better Stories While Having Fun.
The classes aim to make reading and writing fun for children!
School Visits
Rates for School Visits: (Negotiable)
My goal is to help kids open their imaginations to create fantastic worlds and relatable characters.
I offer classroom discussions and tutorials on character development, storytelling, and story structure.
I am a practicing physician with an MFA in creative writing for children. I enjoy engaging students and seeing their eyes light up with new ideas.
Options for classroom education/presentations include:
- Using picture books to help with anxiety, diversity issues, combat gender bias, and sexual orientation. This would involve reading well known picture books and looking at them from a different point of view and reviewing how a fun book can also influence the way we treat others.
- Teaching writing craft techniques and structure – Educating young writers on the principles of character development, voice, setting, plot, or theme and how to fine-tune these principles. May involve writing exercises and examples from common picture book or middle grade texts.
Contact me for more school visit information.
Educator/
Inservice Lecture
Rates:
1-2 hour lecture: $200
Educator based lecture: Specific discussions on anxiety in children and how teachers/counselors/educators can help students through books. This was the topic of a critical thesis I have researched and presented, and I feel this is an outlet that would be an excellent topic for a teacher in-service. Finding other tools outside of formal counseling to help children in an education environment is essential and needed when anxiety and stress prevails in so many. A formal power point presentation is available to educators to highlight literary options with a medical background to help with other resources.
Contact me if you are interested in setting up an Educator/Inservice Lecture.
Manuscript
Critiques
Rates:
Prices would be $100 for 10 pages of writing or one picture book manuscript.
Manuscripts critiques now available. I can help to fine tune your essays, short stories, novels, or picture book manuscripts. I have my Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and would use these skills to help make your writing stronger. Line edits as well as an overall typed page of comments included.