Merry Wanderer Teaching Supplies

|| Teaching Experience: -Grade 8 ELA -Grade 11 ELA -Mythology -High School Theater- Current -Public Speaking- Current
|| Long-term sub experience: -Grade 9 ELA -Grade 11 US History -Grade 9 World History -World Religions
|| Internship: -Grade 12 AP Literature

I bring my enthusiasm and love of the performing arts into my classroom. I'm an unabashed nerd, and that enthusiasm is contagious. It's important to me as a teacher to never stop learning, especially in the performing arts where I have to be a jack-of-all-trades. I believe that theater arts training helps students no matter what they want to be in life.

I believe that learning is the most effective when it is rooted in passion, and I give my students as many opportunities as possible to tie their learning to something they care about. I try to tell funny stories during lectures and keep history connected to the present. I have been known to rap Shakespeare.

-International Thespian Society: Troupe Director -Member of Tackling the Gap: A Teachers' Conversation, a group of teachers organized by the Alabama Media Group to discuss solutions to the racial disparities in education.

|| Degrees: -2008 B.F.A. Performing Arts from The Savannah College of Art and Design -2013 M.Ed. Secondary Education, ELA from The University of Montevallo || Retreats: -2017 SCAD Educator Forum

Amy Strickland is a transplant from Massachusetts who lives and teaches drama in Alabama. @iamthatmerrywanderer on Instagram.