Mr. Michael Gosman
Michael Gosman is a graduate of Western Maryland College (now McDaniel University), with a major in English
and a minor in Education; he did PhD work in English, Comparative Literature, and Italian at Indiana Universi-
ty, as well as completed diploma and certificate programs in Acting and Directing at the National Shakespeare
Conservatory and the Folger Shakespeare Library.
He has nearly twenty years of high school and middle school classroom teaching experience in the USA, and
another nearly ten years of university, college, and junior college classroom teaching experience in Japan.
Since 1989, he has also been a sought-after private teacher and tutor.
Over the course of his career, he has won numerous local, state, and several national awards for Excellence and
Innovation in Teaching. Dating back to the late 1970s, he was one of the original classroom teachers who
helped develop the test specifications (as well as the accompanying curriculum) for the standardized testing
and evaluation of writing in the public schools, as well as a long-time consultant to the Maryland State Depart-
ment of Education (MSDE) on other professional topics such as instructional design and teacher training and
certification. In 1989, in recognition of his contributions to the MSDE, he was the recipient of a departmental
Commendation.
Michael currently teaches full-time at the Triangle Collaborative School (http://www.trianglecollab.org), where he is Social Studies and Language Arts Master Teacher, as well as Director of the school’s one-on-one alternative education program. In his free time, he is a radio DJ at WXDU 88.7 FM (Duke University) and the curator of the station’s weekly jazz program. He has read and performed his creative work onstage at clubs and performance spaces in Tokyo, New York City, the Research Triangle, NC area, and in many other college and university towns in the USA.
and a minor in Education; he did PhD work in English, Comparative Literature, and Italian at Indiana Universi-
ty, as well as completed diploma and certificate programs in Acting and Directing at the National Shakespeare
Conservatory and the Folger Shakespeare Library.
He has nearly twenty years of high school and middle school classroom teaching experience in the USA, and
another nearly ten years of university, college, and junior college classroom teaching experience in Japan.
Since 1989, he has also been a sought-after private teacher and tutor.
Over the course of his career, he has won numerous local, state, and several national awards for Excellence and
Innovation in Teaching. Dating back to the late 1970s, he was one of the original classroom teachers who
helped develop the test specifications (as well as the accompanying curriculum) for the standardized testing
and evaluation of writing in the public schools, as well as a long-time consultant to the Maryland State Depart-
ment of Education (MSDE) on other professional topics such as instructional design and teacher training and
certification. In 1989, in recognition of his contributions to the MSDE, he was the recipient of a departmental
Commendation.
Michael currently teaches full-time at the Triangle Collaborative School (http://www.trianglecollab.org), where he is Social Studies and Language Arts Master Teacher, as well as Director of the school’s one-on-one alternative education program. In his free time, he is a radio DJ at WXDU 88.7 FM (Duke University) and the curator of the station’s weekly jazz program. He has read and performed his creative work onstage at clubs and performance spaces in Tokyo, New York City, the Research Triangle, NC area, and in many other college and university towns in the USA.