Sean Trolinder's Portfolio
About
My name is Sean Trolinder
I graduated with my M.F.A. in Creative Writing - Fiction from Texas State University, where I was a W. Morgan and Lou Claire Rose Fellow. During my time there, I was mentored by Tim O'Brien, Tom Grimes, Debra Monroe, and Nelly Rosario. My fiction has been published in many journals, such as Louisiana Literature, Map Literary Review, Midwestern Gothic, Cagibi, and many more journals.
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For the past sixteen years, I've worked as a teacher in various capacities, including ten at the collegiate level. In my time teaching high school, I spent four years teaching IB HL Language and Literature, three years with AP Literature, one year in IB HL Literature, and one year in IB Theory of Knowledge. During my tenure five year tenure at Celebration High School, my students had a 100% overall pass success rate with a "4 out of 7" or higher.
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Also, my experience within instructional design happened in the classroom, since I developed interactive lessons with Nearpod, Kahoot, Edpuzzle, Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, Canvas, Blackboard, and Articulate Rise 360 before COVID-19 made technology normal.
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From 2014-2017, I served as Fiction Editor for Newfound, where I helped publish and select stories from David James Poissant, Adam O'Fallon Price, Kevin Grauke, and many others.
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Currently, I live in St. Cloud, Florida, where I enjoy the company of my family and dog, Layla.
Teaching Experience
Professional Instructor
IB Language and Literature Instructor
Celebration High School
July 2018 - August 2023
For five years, I taught at Celebration High School in the IB program, where I instructed HL Language and Literature, HL Literature, IB Theory of Knowledge, and AP Literature. I helped students understand assessments, clarified benchmarks, provided feedback and models for writing, and practiced critical thinking through language and literature types.
11th Grade ELA - Regular and Honors
Ocoee High School
August 2017 - July 2018
At Ocoee High School, I taught 11th grade ELA in regular and honors setting. Both classes learned close reading skills, critical thinking, how to format an essay, MLA citation, narrative writing, and oral presentation.
English Composition I & II
Valencia College
August 2012 - July 2017
Valencia College provided me an opportunity to teach writing about cinema and modern issues. Students learned how to dissect film, close read articles, conduct proper research, use MLA citation, understand essay writing, how to workshop, and critical thinking.
College Writing I & II
Texas State University
During my three years at Texas State University, students learned critical thinking, proper research, formal and argumentative essay writing, MLA citation, how to workshop, and scenario writing.
August 2009 - May 2012
Expository Writing I & II
Kansas State University
August 2007 - May 2009
Kansas State University required me to teach a "communities and identities" curriculum, where race, class, and gender were often addressed. Students learned critical thinking, understanding argumentation, ethnography writing, proper research, MLA citation, how to workshop, and formal essay writing.
Editorial Experience
Fiction Editor
Newfound
April 2014 - April 2017
For three years, I helped edit, publish, and solicit short stories for the Newfound an online journal. Some highlights of authors published during my time included works from David James Poissant, Adam O'Fallon Price, Kevin Grauke, and many others.