Cristofre D. Kayser
Tutor
Jacksonville,FL
Summary
Talented Tutor and Adjunct Instructor with 10+ years of experience, offering outstanding communication and problem-solving skills. Fosters positive learning environment by encouraging students to develop individual skills. Known for seminar style teaching with supporting materials and detail- oriented classroom management. Dedicated to individual student success and comprehensive understanding.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
Tutor
Wyzant Tutoring
01.2015 - Current
- Tutored college and high school students, both online and in person, in a variety of subjects, including philosophy, the humanities, writing, proof-reading, grammar, literature, psychology, ancient Greece and Rome, and American history. Through Wyzant, I have over 290 hours tutoring, with a 5.0 student rating (out of 5).
- Developed personalized learning plans to address individual student needs.
- Facilitated engaging tutoring sessions to enhance student comprehension and retention.
- Utilized various educational technologies to support remote learning initiatives.
- Assessed student progress through regular evaluations and feedback.
Adjunct Instructor of Humanities
Midwest Career College
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Develop and conduct an introductory course in the Humanities. The class offers an interdisciplinary, multi-perspective assessment of cultural, political, philosophical, literary, religious, and aesthetic factors critical to the formulation of values and the historical development of the individual and of society. The course investigates the interrelationships of cultural history, spiritual/religious traditions, philosophy, literature, and the arts using the course textbook, supplemented by readings provided by the instructor. Additional readings include excerpts from Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War (the Melian dialogue); the ‘Allegory of the Cave’ from Plato’s Republic; scenes from Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus; creation stories from the Qur’an and Genesis; cantos from Dante’s Inferno; excerpts from the works of Shakespeare; poems by Wordsworth and Poe; Federalist Paper number 10; and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story The Birth-Mark.
Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy (Ethics)
National Louis University
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Develop and conduct Philosophy of Values and Ethics course. Philosophy of Values and Ethics centers on ways students can apply ethical traditions to concrete large-scale ethical problems. The course explores the fundamental framework of ethical dilemmas of moral choice, the moral implications of decision making, and personal integrity. Students are challenged to create their own ethical point of view through essential examination of ethical theories, case studies, readings, and current world events. Major ethical theories taught come from the writings of Plato, Aristotle, John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, as well as readings on theories of rights and of justice. Case studies include Ursula K. LeGuin’s Those Who Walk Away From Omelas; the dilemmas facing contact with Amazonian indigenous tribes (along with a discussion of the Prime Directive as found in the Star Trek); Reinhold Messner’s ascent of Mt. Everest without oxygen (pertaining to Aristotle’s virtue theory of ethics); the Twilight Zone episode The Monsters are Due on Maple Street; the issues surrounding the beliefs of Christian Scientists over medical care; The Bill of Rights (1791), The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789), and the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948); and the 1957 film 12 Angry Men. In the online portion of the class, monitored and contributed to the online discussion threads via D2L.
Adjunct Professor of Humanities
Tribeca Flashpoint Academy
01.2010 - 01.2015
- Develop and conduct two Humanities Survey Courses: Humanities 101 and 102. Research, compile, and teach course material covering various aspects of the humanities as they relate to design, technology, and media studies. Materials taught include a unit on the creation of a villain, with No Country for Old Men as text; a unit on Artificial Intelligence, including the texts Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and The Most Human Human; and a unit on Heroes, using Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces. I have taught a variety of other material in this course, including A Whole New Mind by Dan Pink; a presentation on the cave paintings at Lascaux including excerpts from G. Bataille’s The Cradle of Humanity; The Biology of Fiction by Stephen Pinker; Aristotle On Memory; Thomas Nagle’s What Is It Like To Be A Bat?; the dvd Digital Nation; excerpts from F. Kittler’s Gramophone, Film, Typewriter; Staying off the Grid: The Anonymity Experiment; a media ethics project on Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast The War of the Worlds; a media ethics project on the censorship of horror comics in the early 1950’s; You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier; Frans de Waal on Morality; excerpts on self-identity from Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature; excerpts from The Artificial Ape by Timothy Taylor; Alone Together by Sherry Turkle; The Use of Knowledge in Society by F. A. Hayek; Cass Sunstein’s Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge; and The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. Devised course projects and assignments, tutored students, graded papers.
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy & Humanities
Strayer University
01.2012 - 01.2014
- Conducted both in-class and online courses in philosophy and the humanities. Courses taught include Humanities I, Humanities II, and Critical Thinking. Humanities I surveys the arts, literature, belief systems, and major events in the development of cultures around the globe from pre-history to the period of the European Renaissance ending at 1600. The Humanities II course surveys the cultural development of communities around the world in the modern period, from 1600 to the present. Critical Thinking aims to develop the student’s ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate reasoning in everyday discourse.
Adjunct Professor of Humanities
Colorado Technical University
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Taught online courses in Anthropology, under the rubric of the Humanities, called World Cultures & Values. Used the textbook: Culture Counts: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, with supplemental writings, including: The Pirahã by Daniel Everett; Malinowski on Science & Magic; The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language by Benjamin Whorf; and Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner. Monitor and contribute daily to discussion threads in various aspects of anthropological thought and prepare outside reading material relating to various aspects of the course.
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
Richard J. Daley College
01.2009 - 01.2011
- Developed and conducted an introductory course in philosophy. Compiled course material covering the history of philosophy (Plato, Aeschylus, Mill, Kant, Rousseau, Darwin, LeGuin, Golding, Founding American Documents, Martin Luther King, etc.), prepared syllabus, directed seminars, prepared bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments. Graded papers and tutored students.
Vice President
Chicago Humanities Festival
01.1997 - 01.2005
- As Vice President of the Chicago Humanities Festival (a nonprofit organization), I was responsible for a variety of initiatives, projects, and management.
- Director of Education - researched, developed, marketed, and expanded educational programs designed to enhance the curriculum in the areas of the humanities for teachers and students. Developed programs on fairy tales, the Roaring Twenties and The Great Gatsby, and Chicago & Chicago writers, among others.
- Director of the Children’s Humanities Festival - recruited speakers and performers and oversaw the production, marketing and advertising, audience development, and fundraising of all 25 Children’s Humanities Festival events. Instituted both a Children’s Advisory Board and a Parent’s Advisory Board. Served as media contact.
Education
Ph.D. - Philosophy
- Graduate Teaching Assistantship - Loyola University
- Graduate Tuition Fellowship - Loyola University
- Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship - Loyola University
M.A. - Philosophy
B.A. - Dual Major, Philosophy and English
Basic Program of Liberal Education - undefined
Illinois Alternative Teaching Certification - undefined
- As per Alternative Teacher Certification: Illinois School Code: 105 IL CS 5/21-5b:
- Graduated from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree.
- Employed for five years in an area requiring application of the participant’s education.
- Passed the Illinois basic skills and subject matter knowledge tests: basic skills test score, 262; Social Science; Sociology: Political Science subject matter score, 275.
Skills
Lesson planning
PUBLICATIONS
- ARTICLES
- “H. P. Lovecraft: The Science of Horror – Part 1,” and “H. P. Lovecraft: The Horror of Science – Part 2,” The Artifice, August 16, 2014 & September 9, 2014. This two part essay examines the writer H. P. Lovecraft and his views on science, scientific inquiry, and the decadence of the West. http://the-artifice.com/h-p-lovecraft-horror-part-1/ & http://the-artifice.com/h-p-lovecraft-the-horror-of-science-part-2/
- “Artificial Intelligence Goes to the Movies,” The Artifice, May 24, 2014. This article explores the issues surrounding artificial intelligence. http://the-artifice.com/artificial-intelligence-goes-to-the-movies/
- POETRY
- The Grind of the Knife, Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal, Fall 2012. This is found at: http://arseniclobster.magere.com/290401.html
- Do You Remember When the Day was Full of Stars? Collected Whispers, International Library of Poetry, 2008.
- Yesternight. The Best Poems & Poets of 2007, International Library of Poetry, 2008.
- DISSERTATION
- Law, Politics, and Morality: Dworkin’s Jurisprudence in an Hegelian Perspective.
- OTHER
- Words & Pictures. An illustrated book done in collaboration with the Chicago Humanities Festival and the Great Books Foundation. Edited by Dr. Cristofre Kayser and Dr. Peter Temes, 2001.
OTHER: TEACHING, EMPLOYMENT, MISC.
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology
- Roosevelt University 1998 - 2000
- Adjunct Professor of Humanities
- Harry S. Truman College 1996 - 1998
- Lecturer & Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
- Loyola University of Chicago 1991 - 1996
- University of Chicago – Basic Program 2007 -2009
- The Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults is a rigorous, noncredit liberal arts program that draws on the strong Socratic tradition at the University of Chicago and covers the foundations of Western political and social thought. Readings include philosophy, drama, fiction, poetry, politics, and history.
Timeline
Adjunct Instructor of Humanities - Midwest Career College
01.2017 - 01.2020
Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy (Ethics) - National Louis University
01.2016 - 01.2017
Tutor - Wyzant Tutoring
01.2015 - Current
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy & Humanities - Strayer University
01.2012 - 01.2014
Adjunct Professor of Humanities - Colorado Technical University
01.2012 - 01.2013
Adjunct Professor of Humanities - Tribeca Flashpoint Academy
01.2010 - 01.2015
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy - Richard J. Daley College
01.2009 - 01.2011
Vice President - Chicago Humanities Festival
01.1997 - 01.2005
Loyola University of Chicago - M.A., Philosophy
University of New Hampshire - B.A., Dual Major, Philosophy and English
University of Chicago - Basic Program of Liberal Education,
- Illinois Alternative Teaching Certification,
Loyola University of Chicago - Ph.D., Philosophy