Teaching Experience
2009 – Present
Selected Workshops/Papers
2011
2010
2008
2007
2009 – Present
- Art Educator, 9th - 12th Grade, Art, Advanced Art, Photography & Ceramics, Ygnacio
Valley High School, Mt Diablo Unified School District, Concord, CA
- Art Educator, 6th - 8th Grade, Art & Advanced Art & Computer Technologies, Oak
Grove Middle School, Mt Diablo Unified School District, Concord, CA
- Art Educator, 6th - 8th Grade, Art & Advanced Art, Bret Harte Middle School, Oakland
Unified School District, Oakland, CA.
- Student Teacher, 9th - 12th Grade, Art, Sierra High School, Manteca Unified School
District, Manteca, CA.
Selected Workshops/Papers
2011
- Teaching American History for All [TAHG]: American Democracy: In Word and Deed..
Co-Created Lesson on Economics of sharecropping during Reconstruction Grade 8:
Including Art Inquiry and lesson on the quilt-making process.
2010
- Teaching American History for All [TAHG]: American Democracy: In Word and Deed..
Co-Created Lesson on Washington Irving & James Fenimore Cooper Grade 8: Including
Art Inquiry and printmaking process.
- Presented Art Inquiry to peer group [60+ Teachers, professors and Grad students],
demonstrated how Art Inquiry could be used in their history classrooms. - Modified and added to Grade 8: Art Inquiry specific to this lesson
- Focus Question: How do you look at art to discover its meaning?
- Unit/Lesson Working Thesis: How do Washington Irving and James Fenimore
Cooper reflect and influence American writing and artists in the new republic?
- Created lesson about relief printing to accompany the main lesson.
Demonstrated to peer group.
- Teaching American History for All [TAHG]: Changing Definitions in Citizenship in
American History. Revised Grade 8: Art Inquiry and added a Teacher Guide.
- Wrote Teacher Guide specific to 5th, 8th & 11th grade standards for U. S. History.
[In progress] Created format to add other grades. - Modified and added to Grade 8: Art Inquiry
- Focus Question: How do you look at art to discover its meaning?
- Unit/Lesson Working Thesis: Reading a work of art can involve considering the
artist’s creative intent, its historical context and its intended audience. Other
considerations might include the artwork’s place in the artist’s oeuvre and its place
within an art movement.
2008
- Teaching American History for All [TAHG]: Changing Definitions in Citizenship in
American History - a project of MDUSD and UC Berkeley.
- Wrote Grade 8: Art Inquiry
- Focus Question: How do you look at art to discover its meaning?
- Unit/Lesson Working Thesis: Reading a work of art can involve considering the
artist’s creative intent, its historical context and its intended audience. Other
considerations might include the artwork’s place in the artist’s oeuvre and its place
within an art movement.
- Building Blocks for Kids at Peres Elementary School in Richmond, CA organized by
the Richmond Art Center. I taught a week long workshop on bookmaking for 25 2nd &
3rd grade students.
2007
- Books Arts Demonstration at Alameda Literati I showed and discussed my nearly
complete book The Last Monkey.
Papier-Mâché Sculpture at the Paper Art Workshop to accompany Paper Cuts (a
traveling exhibition) at the Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College of California. [1 day
workshop - 50 students - Ages 8 to 70]
- California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA.
Teaching Credential Program.
- -Preliminary Teaching Credential, Single Subject: Art.
-CLAD Certificate.
-Governors Teaching Fellowship.
- California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA.
Bachelor of Art, Art Studio.
- -Course of Study: Painting and Printmaking.
- Modesto Junior College, Modesto, CA.
- -Course of Study: General Education.
- Art Institute of Seattle, Seattle, WA.
Associate of Art, Visual Communications.
- -Course of Study: Graphic Design and Advertising.
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