I embrace teaching as an opportunity to inspire and empower.
As a teacher, it is my goal to enhance student learning by creating a welcoming, safe and comfortable learning environment.
I encourage students to become personally engaged with art and perceive art to be directly relevant to their own lives.
Understanding the diversity of learning styles and student experiences is key to improving this engagement.
While students must ultimately take responsibility for their own learning, a teacher can often inspire their need to learn.
Learning about the students I teach and their life experiences has helped me to consider ways to make art more relevant and foster critical thinking skills.
Learning is a complex process that is individual, content and context specific.
I am attentive to these factors and am flexible in adapting my approaches according to the needs of students, art content and setting.
Teaching is empowering students to take responsibility for their learning, inspiring them to grow intellectually, encouraging curiosity, providing opportunities for developing relationships, clarifying values, uplifting the spirit and igniting action.
Teaching is a privilege that demands humility as much as respect.
In my teaching, I work to model the example of learning I strive to promote among my students.