Elementary Art Integrations

I have 33 years of teaching experience in Elementary Art Education. My lessons are written for kindergarten through fifth grade students. Each product is labeled by grade level and detailed preview slides are provided that you can see what each lesson includes before making your purchase. My elementary teaching career began when I was hired to teach "Art on a Cart" in the Wichita Public Elementary schools, which consisted of Kindergarten through Fifth grade. I travelled between three different schools, teaching over 900 students each week. Students received one forty-minute Art class every week. Art was included on the grade card and every child was graded. This was a very time-consuming task, which usually filled the bulk of most of my evenings at home. The school district didn't provide a teaching curriculum to the Elementary Art teachers. I created and authored all of my own lesson plans and was monitored by the school district to ensure that the lesson plans met the district Visual Arts standards. In the beginning the Art teachers were allowed to assess student work based on lesson goals. The last few years the district switched to standards-based grading. The grade card was accessed through the district portal and there was very little deviation from the district grading set-up. A few years after working for Wichita Public Schools, I obtained my Master of Fine Arts from Wichita State University. After having taught around 10 years, the district adopted a teaching curriculum for the Elementary Art teachers. I received three teacher's manuals, a few art prints, and a couple of "Big Books." I still leaned heavily on my own self-created curriculum. I went on to participate in the ESOL endorsement program and obtained my endorsement from Newman University in Wichita, Kansas. I finally worked my way up to securing a position in a larger school, by the end of my teaching career. That made it possible for me to stay in the same building all week, without having to travel between schools. There were times when I had to go back to teaching room-to-room on the pushcart, or share my classroom with other educators, due to building maintenance projects, and such. However, I usually got to teach from an art room those last few years. My last year of teaching in the public schools was 2020 - 2021, so I have also experienced teaching Remote from home, and Remote from school. The Elementary Art Teachers also had to teach both Remote and Face-to-Face in the classroom from the pushcart during 20-21. I have had a lot of variety in my teaching experience. Along with teaching in the public schools, I have also taught an evening undergraduate level Elementary Art for Classroom Teachers class at Wichita State University.