LESSON HIGHLIGHTS

COLLABORATIVE "MURAL"

This collage-based "mural" was a project completed with my students at Centerpoint Martial Arts' EduCamp program. EduCamp provided a safe and stable full and half-day learning environment for 50+ K-5 students during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
In this project we looked at examples of murals in our communities, and worked together to design something that would transform and add joy to our learning space. 
The use of collage helped younger students practice their fine-motor skills to cut and glue, and gave full and part-time students equal opportunity to participate.

SYMBOLIC SELF PORTRAITS

During my elementary school student teaching placement, I implemented a painting lesson with three fourth grade classes based on the work of Maine artist Katherine Bradford. In the lesson, students were asked to think about what made them unique. Components of the lesson included demonstrations on basic human proportions, painting techniques, and the steps of making a painting. 
This lesson was also part of a larger Reflective Action Research cycle, in which I identified a need for more student voice and participation in demonstrations, and implemented changes over the course of the lesson.

ADVENTURES IN ART

During Adventures in Art, I worked together with a member of my cohort to design and implement a two-part lesson with the Gifted and Talented students at Brunswick Jr. High, surrounding DesignInquiry: Futurespective in the Institute of Contemporary Art. In order to make the conceptual side of exhibition more accessible to our students, we built off our students’ knowledge of contemporary pop culture and used our own knowledge of the dadaist movement to start a conversation about how art from the past can inform us in the present. During the workshop we gave students a chance to immerse themselves in the exhibition with gallery games and time to walk around, then presented them with a multitude of different mediums tied to a collaborative multimedia art challenge.