ARTS INSTRUCTOR Summary Motivated teaching professional 22 years' experience addressing student needs ensuring proper student development formative assessments student-centered innovations curriculum implementation art across multiple content fields. Highlights Creative lesson planning Adept classroom manager Differentiating instruction specialist Data-driven curriculum expertise Learning disabilities expertise Assessment techniques documented growth Kind empathetic Urban public schools background Experience Arts Instructor 08/1990 05/2012 Company Name City State Planned, implemented, monitored, assessed classroom instructional program consistent Tempe Arizona Board Education Art standards Taught visual arts, specializing photography, serigraphy, ceramics, mural painting, mask making, glass mosaics commercial graphic arts applications. Recognized success art curriculum. Curriculum Designed, developed implemented daily lessons 150 students daily Effectively motivated students interactive teaching audio visual aids stimulation creative imagination. Good working relationships parents resolve conflicting educational priorities issues. Successful experience positions leadership demanded flexible problem solving skills organizational abilities. Participated regular training courses keep up-to-date new teaching methods developments field. Used variety teaching methods lectures, discussions demonstrations.Presented class material policies accurately clearly 8 classes semester. Arts Instructor 01/1998 01/2012 Company Name City State Designed Implemented 10 individually focused programs arts school programs including claymation, ceramics, mask making, drawing, photography, silk screening painting. Methods Applied Curriculum Design: designed, developed implemented daily lessons 150 students daily. Education Strategies: employed special educational strategies techniques instruction improve development sensory/perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, memory. Plan Development: planned conducted activities balanced program instruction, demonstration, work time provided students opportunities observe, question, investigate. Goal Setting: established clear objectives lessons/projects communicated students, achieving total understanding grading rubric overall class expectations. Technology Integration: increased student participation test scores introducing relevant computer programs exercises encourage student interest enjoyment. Education 2002 Arizona State University City State USA Masters Education Masters Degree Secondary Education Curriculum Development 1973 Arizona State University City State USA Bachelor Fine Arts Photography Graduated high honors; specialized photography printmaking. Arizona Board Education State Certifications Structured English Immersion K-12 Secondary Education 7-12 Certification Art Certification K-12 Interests 1995 2000 National Art Education annual conference presenter; Chicago, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco. AFFILIATIONS National Education Association National Art Education Association Arizona Education Association Arizona Art Education Association; President (2000-2002); Middle School Division Chair (1992-1994); Stanford Accelerated School participant. Arizona Alliance Art; Created interactive art website Arizona Alliance Arts, help provide Arizona Visual Arts Standards achievement rural Arizona schools without certified art teacher. Tempe Elementary Education Association International Non-Government Organization Education Through Art. Additional Information Accomplishments Awards 2013 Implemented designed claymation Artist-in Residency project Piaute Middle School, Paradise Valley Arizona 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, presented Tempe Diablos Grady Gammage, Arizona State University 2011-2012 Lead artist implementing international INSIDE OUT art project. Guadalupe Arizona Documented online HBO documentary J.R. project 2005 Art Writing: Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Discovery Meaning Making; published National Art Education Association, Reston Virginia. 2005-2006 PTA Recognition Service Teaching Award. Fees Middle School, Tempe Arizona 2004-2005 Tempe Diablos Excellence Education Award. Wrote award winning cross-content curricular adventures combining visual arts computers, home economics, science, history, graphic arts, creation functioning restaurants serving 300 family, friends teachers. Fees Middle School, Tempe Arizona 1997 Art Education Magazine: Rites Passage Middle School Children. Focus research use humor classroom. 1996 Focus participant research published Middle School Division National Art Education publication: A Participant Observation Study Middle School Art Teacher Integrates Multiculturalism. 1995 Pacific Region 11 states/territories Secondary Art Educator Year, National Art Education Association. 1995 Excellence Education Award writing Southwest Cultures Art. Tempe Diablos, Tempe, Arizona. 1995 Implemented NBA/Coca Cola's "Stay School" Mural All Star program, Phoenix Arizona. 1995 2000 National Art Education annual conference presenter; Chicago, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco. AFFILIATIONS National Education Association National Art Education Association Arizona Education Association Arizona Art Education Association; President (2000-2002); Middle School Division Chair (1992-1994); Stanford Accelerated School participant. Arizona Alliance Art; Created interactive art website Arizona Alliance Arts, help provide Arizona Visual Arts Standards achievement rural Arizona schools without certified art teacher. Tempe Elementary Education Association International Non-Government Organization Education Through Art. Skills Art Education Curriculum Design development, Goal Setting leadership organizational skills Instructional skills mural painting, photography, hand built ceramics, claymation, computer animation, serrigraphy, graphic arts, drawing, Lesson Plan Development utilizing Creative Problem solving skills,