Profile
I am a licensed visual art teacher, with a strong background in
“big idea” art making, visual culture and integrated
curriculum. I have the ability to guide students into
explorations of art production, criticism, aesthetics, art
history and multiculturalism. Through my innovative art lessons,
which concentrate on relevant issues, students achieve the
skills of critical analysis, aesthetic inquiry, objective
reasoning and creativity. My lessons are technologically
presented to compete with the electronic media-driven world of
the students and to enhance student learning on all levels. I
tailor my lessons’ objectives to improve students’ achievement
on the OAT.
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Sample Lesson & Student Artwork
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Power in the Olympics
8th grade students studied the big
idea of power exhibited during the Summer Olympic Games.
They studied political power, performance power,
architectural power, protest power, and advertising
power by looking at Olympic Ceremonies, architecture,
protest posters, movies, promotional posters, print
advertisement and TV commercials. They then chose to
create an Olympic promotional poster, protest poster,
advertisement or drawing of an Olympic building.
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Future City - 1
Point Perspective
7th grade students worked on the
big idea of a future city after studying traditional one
point perspective and looking at other artists who use
the big idea of the future city in their artwork.
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Part I of my lesson.
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Part II of my lesson.
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Humans in Nature
8th grade students studied the big
idea of humans in nature. Students look at a
chronological view of artists' portrayal of human
involvement in nature. Students also looked at the
artwork of Judy Pfaff, an installation artist. Students
chose to construct an installation of a tree with leaves
highlighting humans environmental impact.
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Alter-Ego
7th grade students had been
studying the big idea of identity and with this lesson
they branched off into exploring their alter-egos.
Students studied several artists that deal with this big
idea in their work.
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Watch my Video
Awarded Shiloh
Middle School Teacher of the Year 2009!
~ by Phyllis Spears,
Principal "for his excellence in
educational technology" |
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