Anne Maxham
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Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
Core Faculty, School of Education
Summary of Education and Relevant Experience
B.A., Montclair State College; M.A., Utah State University; Ph.D., University of Idaho.
Anne Maxham is the founding Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Antioch University Seattle, where she synthesizes her expertise in writing support, writing instruction, and pedagogy for adult learners. She coordinates and leads faculty development workshops and programs for teaching excellence as well as administers the writing course offerings and academic support available at the Academic Support Lab.
Maxham is an educator with over 30 years of teaching experience: she has taught writing, literature and literacy courses at the high school, community college and university levels. She joined Antioch Seattle in 2000 as a founding faculty member of the Bachelor of Arts with Teacher Certification Program (BATP), a program that acutely reflected Antioch’s social justice mission in educating para-educators in the Puget Sound region. While teaching in this program, she developed a writing center for all Antioch Seattle students and later designed writing classes and writing assessments for entering students on both the undergraduate and graduate level. As the writing support and writing classes became successful, the next iteration of the Center materialized in faculty workshops and programs supporting teaching excellence. These initiatives became the three-fold features of the Center for Teaching and Learning: the Academic Support Lab, writing class offerings, and faculty development support. The CTL is one place that fosters teaching and learning excellence and provides weekly workshops, monthly book club and “open mic” for the AUS community.
Maxham is now working on another project in developing a Virtual Writing Center (vwc.antioch.edu) for the five campuses that comprise Antioch University. As Director of Writing for AU, she has also supported the development of writing centers at other campuses. Maxham has served on the executive branch of the Washington Association of Teachers of English. She also has other educational administrative experience as Associate Director of Composition at Washington State University in Pullman. Her research interests are in faculty development support, adult learning and writing apprehension, writing communities and qualitative research methodology.
Affiliations
Professional Interests
- Writing Support and Learning
- Faculty Development Support
- Adult Learning
- Literacy across the Curriculum
- Critical literacy
- Women in transition
- Teacher preparation
On Interest Area
“Through my professional career, I have realized the intensely rewarding experience of working with students and teachers around literacy learning and how writing empowers the learner in developing and expressing understanding. Regardless of the teaching situation, a GED Program to a graduate writing class, I’ve found that students earnestly want to find their voice as writers and that faculty strive to be empathic readers of student texts. I know fundamentally that the most rewarding classroom experience is one that actively supports that learning. At Antioch University, where writing is so essential and visible to learning, the conversations have been among the most invigorating. My hope in creating the Center for Teaching and Learning is to provide a dynamic space for that conversation around teaching and learning excellence. And that by doing so, I help instill a healthy learning environment for all writers, faculty and students, at Antioch University.”
On Teaching at Antioch
"There is nothing more invigorating than the dialogue among educators about the transformational power of education."
Contact Information
Center for Teaching and Learning
206-268-4417
Anne Maxham
206-268-4620
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