NAN VOLINSKY
Summary
I am a certified PREK-12 Spanish Teacher through the year 2030, focused on maximizing student learning potential through diverse, age- and developmentally appropriate instructional strategies and classroom management techniques. Examples of strategies: Story telling and story "asking," Total Physical Response, and participation in the composition and performance of simulated conversational skits.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
Spanish Language Teacher
Daniel Morgan Middle School
08.2009 - 06.2023
- Exploring Foreign Languages: Spanish for grades 5 and 6
- Spanish I and Spanish II, high school-credit courses for grades 7 and 8
- World Travelers for 5th Grade: Cultures of Russia, Spain, Israel, Japan, and Peru
Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology
Shenandoah University
09.2007 - 01.2009
- Introduction to Ethnomusicology
- Methods of Ethnomusicology
- Survey of World Music: Asia; The Americas
Spanish Language Teacher
Powhatan School
09.2004 - 01.2007
- Developed, implemented, and taught the Spanish language curriculum for grades K-4, 6, and 7
Instructor, Advisor, and Academic Programs and Outreach Coordinator
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
09.1998 - 05.2004
- I taught Introduction to Latin America for six spring semesters. This was a large, interdisciplinary undergraduate course with approximately 180 students enrolled. I took the students through a wide range of disciplinary approaches to the study of this region of the world, from geography and history to economics, politics, and performing arts.
- Served as Academic Advisor for BA undergraduate and MA graduate students in Latin America and Caribbean Studies.
- Contributed key data for successful annual proposals for Title VI funding from the Department of Education.
- Coordinated a wide set of outreach activities for K-12 educators and the general public.
- Coordinated weekly lecture series open to the university and local communities.
Teaching Assistant, Anthropology Department
University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
09.1989 - 05.1997
- Time periods: 1989-1992, 1994-1997
- Courses: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Peoples and Cultures of South America, Introduction to Social Anthropology and Ethnology, Spanish Speakers of the United States, Introduction to Latin America.
- Partnered with teacher to plan and implement lessons following school's curriculum, goals, and objectives.
- Facilitated activities in small groups to reinforce concepts taught by class teacher.
- Tutored struggling students individually and in small groups to reinforce learning concepts.
- Evaluated student performance through regular assessments, tracking progress and adjusting instructional strategies as needed.
- Designed graded assignments and tests, providing constructive feedback to students based on results.
- Handled class records for attendance, assignment grades and course participation scores.
Education
Ph.D. - Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology with a specialization in the Ethnomusicology of the Andean region
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
01.1998
M.A. - Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology with a specialization in the Ethnomusicology of the Andean region
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
01.1992
B.A. - Double Major in Anthropology and Music Theory and History
Indiana University, Bloomington
01.1987
Skills
- Possess High Mastery of all modalities of the Spanish language
- Lively, funny, upbeat personality
- Maintain positive rapport with all students
- Creative, interactive, and age- and developmentally appropriate pedagogical strategies for fluency in writing, reading, speaking, and listening
Research and teaching interests
Second language acquisition; the transmission of knowledge across generations; the ethnomusicology of violin practice in Andean countries; cultural transformation and continuity with a lens on ethnicity, class, age, and spatial geography; bodily movement; festival; ritual; cosmology, and classical and folk violin traditions.
Ethnomusicology Field Research Experience
- Countries: Peru and Ecuador
- Time periods: 1984-85, 1992-1994, and the Summers of 1989, 1991, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2022
Fellowships and Grants
- Institute of International Education (IIE) Fulbright Fellowship for Ph.D. dissertation research in Saraguro, Ecuador, 8/93 - 7/94.
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Graduate College Dissertation Research Grant, UIUC Anthropology Department, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies for preliminary field research in Ecuador during the Summers 1989, 1991, 1992
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (Title VI) to study the Quechua language of the Inca Empire and of contemporary Andean countries, UIUC, 88-89, Spring 90.
Conference poster
Ethnicity and Patterns of Bodily Movement Across Generations: Violin Performance Technique and Ethnic Resurgence in Saraguro, Ecuador, 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 11/19/2003, 11/23/2003
Publications
- 2003, Standing Up: Violin Performance Technique and Ethnic Resurgence in Saraguro, Ecuador, Visual Anthropology, 16, 2
- 2001, Poniéndose de pie: Técnica de interpretación del violin y resurgimiento étnico entre los quechuas de Saraguro, Ecuador, Identidades representadas: Performance, experiencia y memoria en los Andes, Gisela Cánepa Koch, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Fondo Editorial, 117-147
- 2001, La danza navideña de los saraguros y la cuatripartición del movimiento humano, Identidades representadas: Performance, experiencia y memoria en los Andes, Gisela Cánepa Koch, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Fondo Editorial, 213-279
References
Sally Hovermale (Powhatan School, Retired)
Matt Roark (Daniel Morgan Middle School)
Beth O'Donnell (Daniel Morgan Middle School)
Timeline
Spanish Language Teacher
Daniel Morgan Middle School
08.2009 - 06.2023
Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology
Shenandoah University
09.2007 - 01.2009
Spanish Language Teacher
Powhatan School
09.2004 - 01.2007
Instructor, Advisor, and Academic Programs and Outreach Coordinator
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
09.1998 - 05.2004
Teaching Assistant, Anthropology Department
University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
09.1989 - 05.1997
Ph.D. - Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology with a specialization in the Ethnomusicology of the Andean region
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A. - Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology with a specialization in the Ethnomusicology of the Andean region
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A. - Double Major in Anthropology and Music Theory and History
Indiana University, Bloomington
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