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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching: CV

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
 

  • Pre-service and in-service Teacher Educator

  • Academic Advisor

  • Pre-service teacher Program Supervisor​

  • Arts Integration Specialist

  • Veteran art educator, children through adult studio arts

  • Massachusetts and New York, Certified K-12 Art Teacher

  • Curriculum Developer-online and in-person

  • International Educator

  • Founder and Director of a non-profit community-based art center in Amherst, Massachusetts

EDUCATION

•Doctorate in Education, Teacher Education and School Improvement Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 2012
•Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
•Bachelor of Science in Art Education, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, New York. 

ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Engaged Mindfulness Institute-Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training & Certification

  • Parsons School of Design, New York  Ceramics & Photography

  • Parsons in West Africa, Ceramics & Photography

COLLEGE TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Boston University, Boston MA, 

  • Faculty and Fieldwork Coordinator

 Courses:

  • Arts Integration: Interdisciplinary Approaches that Support Holistic Learning

  • Pre-Practicum Seminar

  • Master’s Research Project: Arts-Based Research and Practices

 

Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA. Part-Time Faculty  2020-2021

Courses :

  • Design for Disabilities

  • Graduate Seminar​

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Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts. Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Education, 2007-2020
Courses designed and taught:

  • Innovations for Change-Problem Solving for the Future

  • Arts Integration Across Cultures

  • Introduction to Art Education

  • Methods for Teaching Art to Children

  • Teaching Art in the Elementary School

  • Arts and Activism


Western New England University, Springfield, MA, Online Graduate Course Developer and content specialist, 2010-2014
Courses:

  • Infusing Content Area with Art - Elementary.

  • Infusing Content Area with Art - Secondary

  • Western New England University, Springfield, MA, Online Graduate Course Facilitator, 2010-2013

Courses:

  • Infusing Content Area with Art – Elementary.

  • Infusing Content Area with Art - Secondary


University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate, and Undergraduate, 2007-2008
Courses:

  • Visual Arts and Human Development

  • Arts Integration Graduate and Undergraduate Workshops


Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, Adjunct Instructor, 2005-2007
Courses:

  • Introduction to Art Education


Mount Wachusett Community College, Gardner, Massachusetts. Adjunct Instructor
1998–1999
Courses:

  • 2-Dimensional Design

  • Introduction to Studio Art

  • Painting


University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Instructor. 1993 – 1996
Courses:

  • 3D Design Foundations

  • Ceramics Handbuilding

  • Ceramics Wheel Throwing

  • Multicultural Ceramics

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