User:JohnPMcCartney

I am a retired educator, having taught print, broadcast and photo journalism from 1980-2005. I also taught religion classes (New Testament, Old Testament, World Religions, Catholic Church history, Catholic dogma, Social Justice, Prayer, Christian literature) from 1979-1988 at St. Francis de Sales High School, an all-boys Catholic college prep high school in Toledo, Ohio.

When I moved from parochial to public education, I taught whatever classes I was assigned in Texas schools; everything within my specialty as well as classes in English grammar and literature, special education content mastery, drama and speech.

I taught news reporting and desktop publishing for a semester @ Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas (1995).

I spent my summers between 1982 and 2004 teaching print and photo journalism classes at workshops at university campuses across the nation, campuses in cities and states from Rhode Island and New York City to Oregon and Idaho, from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to southeast Texas.

I earned a Bachelor of Science (1977) and a Master of Science and Education in Public Health (1979) from the University of Toledo; 12 hours of graduate coursework in theology from St. Meinrad School of Theology (1980), 40 hours of graduate coursework in journalism and mass communication from Bowling Green (Ohio) State University (1988-1990), and Ohio and Texas public education teaching certificates.

Otherwise, I'm just an ordinary kind of guy trying to learn/expose myself to as much as my brain can hold.