MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHIES
Student Driven
I discovered my love of learning through
student-led programs.
I think that everyone has the right to forge their
own path by pursuing
things that matter
to them.
Well Being
My first priority is always the health and safety
of my students.
This includes mental health. My students'
well-being comes before anything else.
Creativity + Flexibility
I think that the best kind of teaching is fluid. I welcome new ideas, new directions, and unexpected twists.
I LOVE graphic design and art, and I'm excited to get my students excited, too.
Diversity
I believe that diversity is a great boon. Art Education is a powerful tool for widening one's worldview. Art is the best way to share culture, and it's a language we all speak.
STUDENT TEACHING
I conducted my student teaching at Hilltop High School in
San Francisco's Mission District. I observed and taught full time for one semester, from February to May. I taught Arts & Entrepreneurship, a digital arts course focused on building business skills in the online space.
Challenges
The students at Hilltop are either pregnant or parenting, and needed their time outside of school to care for their children. Attendance was a big challenge, as I had to develop curriculum with small projects that enabled students to catch up.
Successes
At Hilltop, I was able to successfully engage students with the content of the course by connecting it to their life experiences. During our poster-making unit, some students made posters for their baby showers and baby birthday parties, after completing the skill-building exercises.
Students created these find-the-difference puzzles using their own photos or their favorite celebrities. This was part of our intro to Photoshop unit, where students learned the basics of photo editing.
These are self portraits the students created using transparent sheets of plastic, sharpies, paint, and photos for tracing. This was part of our unit on layers in Photoshop. Students learned that creating digital art is the same process as painting on these transparent sheets. After creating these portraits, they completed exercises where they had to reorder a similar portrait done digitally