smARTistic
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Mcdonough, Georgia, United States
About the store
This will be my 17th year teaching. I taught Middle School for 15 years.
My first 5 year were in Special Education and then switched to Visual Arts. I currently teach Middle and High school at our county's alternative school. I absolutely love it!
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Inspirational Testing Messages / Mini Desk Poster
Have parents write on the back of the card an inspirational message to their child for any assessment (Standardized test, state test, Unit test).
1st - 12th
Art History, For All Subjects
Sketchbook: Step-by-Step making a recycled sketchbook.
This is a Step-by-Step Power-Point and Video demonstration on how to create student sketchbooks using a binding machine. Materials needed: 1. Binding machine: Usually found in your library, media center or teachers lounge. 2. Binding spines: Your school may have them, or your can order them from an office supply store. 3. Empty Cereal boxes, Frozen Pizza Boxes. VA PR.4: Keeps a visual and verbal sketchbook journal to collect, develop and preserve ideas in order to produce works of art.a. Colle
1st - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Art, English Language Arts
Tessellations Step-by-Step Lesson and Worksheets
This lesson is a step-by-step approach to creating tessellations. It is designed for your ease and for students to be able to have Student Agency and come up with their own tessellation and create an interesting composition rather than tessellating boring shapes. This lesson contains 13 pages and comes with... 1. Standards 2. Learning Targets 3. Daily lesson plans 4. Visual step by step instructions 5. Student worksheets 6. Rubric 7. Key 8. Examples I recommend using empty cereal boxes fo
4th - 8th
Art, Math
CCSS
8.G.A.1
Value Scale Skills worksheet and Still Life Practice with samples
This is a great way to introduce skills in a value drawing project. It introduces values scales using the Blending, Stippling, Hatching and Cross-Hatching techniques. The other worksheet students can practice how to use value in a still life. Students can demonstrate where their light source is, casting shadows and to shade their background to show contract in the objects.
6th - 12th
Art
Texture Rubbing Scavenger Hunt
This is quick 2 day project using TEXTURE.
I have left a space blank where teachers can fill in the time that they want their students to complete the 2 Scavenger Hunts and 2 samples of texture rubbing projects. I've also attached the Standard to the Worksheet.
3rd - 8th
Visual Arts
Still Life Drawing Project
This is a Still Life Drawing Project
It contains Teacher Lesson Plans with Standards and Competencies.
Essential Questions and Learning Targets
Day by day suggested instructions.
Learning and Guided student worksheets for drawing practice.
2 Drawing Activities.
1 Still Life Drawing Assessment
Rubric for Drawing Assessment and Project Assessment.
Samples of Completed Worksheets and Drawings
6th - 12th
Visual Arts
Tessellation Worksheet
A step-by-step worksheet that that shows how to make a tessellation with fill in the black notes. It includes that standard, essential question and a short history of M.C. Escher.
5th - 8th
Art History, Math, Visual Arts
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About the store
Experience
This will be my 17th year teaching. I taught Middle School for 15 years.
My first 5 year were in Special Education and then switched to Visual Arts. I currently teach Middle and High school at our county's alternative school. I absolutely love it!
Teaching style
I believe that you have to teach students a skill set as a foundation so that they can create with success. Without skill there will be failure. Failure it good. You will learn way more from failure than you will ever learn through success. However, too much failure, or setting a student up for failure can lead to defeat. You don't want to lose them early in the game.
Awards & shining teacher moments
2011 Teacher of the Year for Henry County Middle School, McDonough, GA
Wrote a grant to Recycle Bank and had our school award as a Green School for 9 years in a row.
Awarded a Georgia House Resolution 1726
By: Representatives Jordan of the 77th, Davis of the 109th, Welch of the 110th, and Scott of the 76th for recycled art projects at Henry County Middle School
Toured the White House and Exhibited recycled art at the Lincoln Memorial on a Fine Arts Trip.
My own education history
B.F.A Georgia Southern University
Additional biographical information
My husband, John and I, have been in education for 16 going to 17 years now. We both teach Visual Arts and are very passionate about it. We opened a gallery and paint shop called Unchartered Creativity to showcase student art when the county started cutting the elementary art positions. We wanted our community and parents to see how important the arts are in education. We have since closed the brick and mortar establishment to spend time with our own two children. However, we offer 2 weeks of Fine Arts Summer Camp for grades K-8. It is hosted at Ola High School in McDonough, GA in the month of June.
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