Greg Askew
Appointed 2010
Language Arts
Undergraduate Degree
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University of Vermont, B.A. in English with a minor in Russian/East European Studies
Graduate Degrees
- University of Vermont, M.A. in English with an emphasis in Psychoanalytic Theory
Activities
- Organizing and reading poetry at an open-mic venue.
- Graduate Teaching Fellow, UVM English Department, September 2003-May 2005
Honors / Awards
- Graduated Magna Cum Laude, December 2002 and May 2006
- Journal Publication: "Envy, Ambivalence, and the Culture of Consumption in Nella Larsen's Passing," Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, winter 2005.
- Recognized as a Highly Qualified Teacher (HQT) by the Vermont Deparment of Education based on my performance in the Praxis II content knowledge exam for English language, literature, and composition, January 2007.
Best VCS moment
- Walking through the door my first day!
Quote
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.”
Shunryu Suzuki
Hobbies
- Birding, hiking, fishing, reading, writing the odd poem, watching movies, tinkering about the house, hanging with my family and friends.
Personal Statement
Over the past six years as an educator, I believe that what has made me the most successful, what has helped me forge the most positive and productive rapport with my students and has reinforced time and again a sense of real commitment to the fullness of my profession, is the belief that a teacher should enter the classroom as the Socratic student-eternal, enflamed with a passion for learning and ever open to the possibilities of a world yet truly to be known. Not only does this attitude in the classroom model the skills and modes of engagement we desire for our students; it also fosters an atmosphere of openness and collaboration-a sense that we are fellow travelers, mutually engaged in a common culture of learning, sharing, and growing. As long as I teach, I desire to maintain what Shunryu Suzuki called a "beginner's mind" and share joys of discovery and learning with my students and hopefully inspire a greater degree of inquisitiveness about the world and a sense of true engagement in them as well.