High School Arts and Humanities Teaching
• Cumberland County High School • Burkesville Kentucky • August 2013-2016
• West Jessamine High School • Nicholasville Kentucky • August 2016-2017
• Ramstein Airbase High School • Ramstein Germany • January 2019-2021
• International Student Teaching • Melbourne Australia • Spring 2013
Courses Taught:
•Art I: This class involves instruction in both 2D and 3D processes such as drawing painting, printmaking, calligraphy, recycled art, ceramics, and more. Students learn the fundamentals of the elements and principles of design as well as art history.
•Art II: Students get to experiment with a variety of processes while they practice independence and creativity in designing and creating their own projects. Students learn the process of art critique along with the history of modern art.
•AP and Advanced Art: Students have the opportunity to work independently on their own projects with guidance from the teacher. AP students put together portfolios for college credit.
•Arts and Humanities: Students learn fundamentals in dance, music, drama, and visual arts. They are given the opportunity to create, perform, and respond in each of these areas.
• Dance: Students learn about the elements of dance, dance styles and dance history. Students get the opportunity to learn and perform cultural and historical dances from around the world as well as choreographing their own dances.
Accomplishments:
• My school allowed me the incredible opportunity last fall to travel to Australia and do a collaborative Instagram photography project with my art students and the students at Maranatha Christian Academy in Melbourne. Students exchanged images that reveal life and culture while inspiring an appreciation of art and photography. Through the creation and exchange of digital images on Instagram, students were given an opportunity to connect and vicariously experience a life half a world away. You can see documentation of this project at the end of my teaching video
•My dance students put on a collaborative community event with the school Jazz Band this past year. It was a Valentines swing dance and dinner show. The Jazz band played and my students performed some swing dance numbers. Then the community was given the opportunity to learn how to dance.
•My classes have been involved in creating the sets and props for our community theater productions the past three years for The Wizard of Oz , Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, and Seussical the Musical.
