2017-462-E Arts - New Hope Elem. School - 2017-18 Arts Grant Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:B3B563FD-6D63-4031-A74C-538395FA5A15 I am skilled at differentiating lessons to meet the needs of all learners and have four years of experience teaching students with mild to severe special needs in self-contained classroom settings as well as in integrated, regular education settings. Iltroughout,my career, I have created a number of interdisciplinary art units utilizing and collaborating with community resources and institutions (e.g. The Buffalo Liolocaust Museum, ,Albright Knox Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame Kellogg Institute for International Studies, South ,Bend Museum of Art, Duke University's Literacy Through Photography, Carolina Ballet, Marbles Kid's Museum,. etc.) often in colia.boration with teacher colleagues in other disciplines. I maintain a solid understanding of theories in art education, pedagogy, child development, art history and criticism, learning models and child psychology and often attend national conferences to improve my teaching craft. While in public and private schools, I created ongoing, rotating displays of student art throughout the school year in the school halls, entryways, school administrative offices, and district administrative offices. At the end of each school year, I organized and put on an all-school art show involving at least two to three pieces of art per student and open to the entire school community. (On more than one occasion local television and newspaper crews were in attendance and made public our school's event.) While at The Carrboro ArtsCenter and the NCMA., I created end-of-program art shows for parents and artists, including two large format art shows at Marbles Kids Museum. While teaching full-time in public and privates schools I created and ran after school Art Clubs meeting one day a week for an hour. Every year this club was filled to capacity.. During my years teaching at a K-8 school, I entered middle school students in the annual Scholastic Art and Writing competition. Each year, a munber of my students were accepted into the regional, juried art show and each year at least one of my students .won gold and went on to compete nationally in New York City. Twice, my students have won national gold prizes and their art was displayed in Carnegie Hall. While at public/private schools, I participated in all-school projects and publications such as: poetry/art anthology, set-design for school plays/musicals, author visits, fund-raisers and charity projects, art for assemblies and special events. In schools settings, I designed and maintained an art teacher website which included homework. postings, monthly newsletters, a digital art gallery of student. work and was utilized regularly by students, parents and teachers. In addition to continuous, one-on-one feedback during projects, I have developed a rich battery of methods for evaluating student performance including project rubrics, concept building exercises, sketchbooks assignments, self/peer evaluations, reflective post-project exercises, and small-group and whole-class critiques (both mid and post-project). My experience training teachers includes mentoring first and second year art educators; providing professional development workshops at the North Carolina Museum of Art's Educators' Night Out events; running smaller workshops to teach teachers how to include more fine art and art history in their curricula; and contributing to larger retreat-type workshops focused on teaching educators to develop art-rich, interdisciplinary lessons for use in their classrooms. 2