Massey creative writing teacher wins national teaching award
Massey creative writing teacher Dr Bryan Walpert has been awarded a tertiary teaching excellence award of $20,000. Massey creative writing teacher Dr Bryan Walpert has been awarded a tertiary teaching excellence award of $20,000.The award was presented by Tertiary Education Minister Dr Michael Cullen at a function at the Beehive on 12 June 2007.
Walpert has been at Massey for three years, teaching creative writing and specialising in poetry.
From Baltimore, Maryland, he has a BA majoring in international relations from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, a Masters in fine arts from the University of Maryland and a PhD in English from the University of Denver, Colorado. He spent more than a decade working as a newspaper and magazine journalist in the United States.
"What's really important is helping students to see the excitement that I feel about the material," says Dr Walpert.
"Helping them to discover what they are capable of, to discover they are capable of more than think that they are."
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