What you will find in this portfolio
This is a course-based teaching portfolio and a living document of my experiences as a teaching assistant in the Art + Design Department at North Carolina State University. It is also includes an overview of my professional and volunteer teaching previous to my graduate career working with elementary students and high school students. I am using the portfolio as an opportunity to show a sample of the breadth and strength of my teaching, most of which I accomplished over a number of years prior to my time at NCSU.
The highlight of creating the portfolio was reviewing and documenting the appreciable improvements and the skill sets the Certificate of Accomplishment in Teaching (CoAT), the Fundamentals in Teaching (FIT) workshop series, and other specialty program workshops added to my teaching. Looking back through my notebook of workshops, I clearly see the influence these have had on my current style and philosophy. Not the least of which was the value of interacting with a cross-disciplinary group of graduate students. I found there were many similarities between teaching art to young children and teaching art to young adults. The similarities outweighed the differences. My elementary art background was definitely the foundation for success with planning and working with university students.
Creating an online portfolio is the only way to present oneself as a contemporary member of the teaching community. The majority of positions include a requirement for at least some level of proficiency in a number of computer applications. In today’s teaching world there is no way to ignore the reality of receiving most communication online, the research value of the Internet, nor the ecological implications of using less paper.
My goal as a teacher differs from the other students I met in the CoAT program. I am preparing to teach children in an elementary school setting as well as to facilitate small group creative and technical workshops. As I continue to research I anticipate writing more and publishing gallery and museum show reviews as well as continue exhibiting my own work. I also hope to participate on panels and lecture in my field of expertise.
The highlight of creating the portfolio was reviewing and documenting the appreciable improvements and the skill sets the Certificate of Accomplishment in Teaching (CoAT), the Fundamentals in Teaching (FIT) workshop series, and other specialty program workshops added to my teaching. Looking back through my notebook of workshops, I clearly see the influence these have had on my current style and philosophy. Not the least of which was the value of interacting with a cross-disciplinary group of graduate students. I found there were many similarities between teaching art to young children and teaching art to young adults. The similarities outweighed the differences. My elementary art background was definitely the foundation for success with planning and working with university students.
Creating an online portfolio is the only way to present oneself as a contemporary member of the teaching community. The majority of positions include a requirement for at least some level of proficiency in a number of computer applications. In today’s teaching world there is no way to ignore the reality of receiving most communication online, the research value of the Internet, nor the ecological implications of using less paper.
My goal as a teacher differs from the other students I met in the CoAT program. I am preparing to teach children in an elementary school setting as well as to facilitate small group creative and technical workshops. As I continue to research I anticipate writing more and publishing gallery and museum show reviews as well as continue exhibiting my own work. I also hope to participate on panels and lecture in my field of expertise.