My Philosophy in Art Education.
I tell my students, "Not everyone can draw. Not everyone is good at painting. Not all students are good at art... and that is ok! I am here to teach you how to think creatively, and how to problem solve."
As an open minded, patient, cheerful teacher, I wholeheartedly enjoy working as an art instructor with children of all ages. I am confident, experienced, and comfortable in teaching – with healthy classroom management practices. I welcome and embrace diversity and am a well-rounded professional artist with much experience to share with my students.
It is my philosophy that art making can support confidence and self-empowerment though creative expression, self-exploration, I seek to tailor projects and facilitate motivation as students take ownership of their learning.
I work with a wide variety of mixed media paired with the National Arts Standards, and widely differentiate, allowing children the freedom to explore various project styles and integrate them with core curriculum subjects (tying art curriculum to classroom themes). The arts can play a critical role in reinforcement and assimilation of prior knowledge across all areas, and the expansion of opening student-minds to new concepts. To reinforce learning from core-subject curricula, I incorporate art from diverse cultures and influential artists, and seek to expand upon lessons with interdisciplinary collaboration. In addition to teaching artistic foundations, principles, and elements of art, I believe that cross-subject learning serves to spur the creative processes while reinforcing lessons gained in other classrooms – making the school experience more unified. I also strongly feel that student-driven lessons and student-choice are pivotal to engagement.
I teach equal parts foundational art methods (via Discipline Based Art Education) coupled with student-centered studio methods (Teaching For Artistic Behavior). This facilitates student connection to individualized projects and invests in the students’ self-confidence – empowering them to choose based on passion, interest, and curiosity. My differentiated and highly individualized instruction meets each student where they are at, and I seek to align lessons with student desire. My PBIS and Responsive Classroom style honors diversity and inclusion, emotional intelligence, and is driven by developing holistic learners. These are our designers and problem solvers of tomorrow.
As an open minded, patient, cheerful teacher, I wholeheartedly enjoy working as an art instructor with children of all ages. I am confident, experienced, and comfortable in teaching – with healthy classroom management practices. I welcome and embrace diversity and am a well-rounded professional artist with much experience to share with my students.
It is my philosophy that art making can support confidence and self-empowerment though creative expression, self-exploration, I seek to tailor projects and facilitate motivation as students take ownership of their learning.
I work with a wide variety of mixed media paired with the National Arts Standards, and widely differentiate, allowing children the freedom to explore various project styles and integrate them with core curriculum subjects (tying art curriculum to classroom themes). The arts can play a critical role in reinforcement and assimilation of prior knowledge across all areas, and the expansion of opening student-minds to new concepts. To reinforce learning from core-subject curricula, I incorporate art from diverse cultures and influential artists, and seek to expand upon lessons with interdisciplinary collaboration. In addition to teaching artistic foundations, principles, and elements of art, I believe that cross-subject learning serves to spur the creative processes while reinforcing lessons gained in other classrooms – making the school experience more unified. I also strongly feel that student-driven lessons and student-choice are pivotal to engagement.
I teach equal parts foundational art methods (via Discipline Based Art Education) coupled with student-centered studio methods (Teaching For Artistic Behavior). This facilitates student connection to individualized projects and invests in the students’ self-confidence – empowering them to choose based on passion, interest, and curiosity. My differentiated and highly individualized instruction meets each student where they are at, and I seek to align lessons with student desire. My PBIS and Responsive Classroom style honors diversity and inclusion, emotional intelligence, and is driven by developing holistic learners. These are our designers and problem solvers of tomorrow.