EDUCATION:Washington Teaching Certificate - Endorsement in K-12 Visual Art
& CTE Professional Production Arts Graduate Studies in Teaching the Gifted and Talented Learner from the University of Maine at Farmington Maine Teaching Certificate - Endorsement in K-12 Visual Art Pennsylvania Teaching Certificate - Endorsement in K-12 Visual Art Dual Baccalaureate - Bachelor of Science in Education (Art Education & Art Studio) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania Graduated Summa Cum Laude, May 2011 from IUP's Honors College |
Mrs. Ramey's Halloween costume, 2015. Inspired by Rene Magritte's Surrealist painting.
"Everyone experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience and not understanding that influences our behavior." |
PERSONAL INTERESTS:
"Assiduous and frequent questioning is indeed the first key to wisdom." |
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY:My goal as an art teacher is to model and provide opportunities for students to engage in meaning making while practicing the critical and creative thinking habits and work skills that help them to develop as imaginative, moral, and capable individuals. I encourage students to discover and refine their own unique approach to the artistic process, and I give them ample opportunities to do so through the exploration of multiple media and processes in both modern and traditional disciplines. I encourage all of my students to develop a growth-mindset by promoting their processing skills, allowing them to play with the ideas and problems at hand. I provide opportunities to ask good questions, practice healthy risk-taking, and apply useful brainstorming and problem solving techniques which they can then apply in all sorts of circumstances.
The high school art curriculum is aligned to our state visual arts standards and CTE Frameworks in order to help students develop an ongoing and meaningful understanding of the art discipline. Through various hands-on and cross-disciplinary lessons, students and I explore both the content of the art discipline as well as the underlying artistic mindset that helps to generate curious, self-directed, and life-long learners. As a Career Technology Education course (CTE), our art students will engage in rigorous learning opportunities relevant to design-based careers which include learning about brainstorming and ideation techniques, design theory, Elements of Art & Principles of Design, reflection, critique, craftsmanship, creative and critical thinking, problem-solving, presentation, and Visual Culture theory. Check out this slide show of photos from my work as the middle school art teacher in Ellsworth, Maine:"The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." |