David Miller: AP Literature Chief Reader

David Miller -- Episode #87

An insightful thinker, an incredible scholar and well-respected English teacher at Mississippi College for more than two decades, David Miller received accolades as MC’s Distinguished Professor of the Year in 2013.

Miller graduated summa cum laude graduate at 3,400-student Nyack College that’s known as New York’s Christian college. Founded in 1882 in New York City as a training school for missionaries, the school bills itself as the first Bible college in North America. The Mississippi resident also received a master’s degree and doctorate from Baylor University in Waco, Texas.David also serves as the Chief Reader for the AP Literature and Composition exam.

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David has taught at Mississippi College for 26 years

graduate school is when he realized that the classroom is where he belonged

David recognizes the two types of mentors -- those we choose and those that are formally assigned to us

He admires the adaptability of high school teachers in comparison to higher ed

What David did when his students did not do the reading

How David puts himself out there and places him in situations to interact with students

Why it is so important to take risks

How texts are tools not entities in and of themselves

Why literature is a verb, not a noun

The goals of the AP Literature and Composition exam

How David plans a unit or a novel

What happens in the process of reading a complex text

Two books that teachers should read are:

Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

Kylene Beers and Robert Probst's Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters

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