The Official Art Specialist for Dilworth Elementary

Big news in our part of the world. I am the new "Art Specialist" for Dilworth Elementary School in SLC; My neighborhood school.

I am fairly stunned at the prospect of teaching 530 K-6 and disabled students, but I also can't believe the opportunity. The idea that I'll be able to help a lot of children develop their creative selfs in their most formative years is really exciting and I have been doing a lot of research on various learning models, arts-based teaching methods, and ways to integrate the rest of the curriculum with art. There are a handful of key assessment points that are required, but I am faced with designing seven slightly different levels of concurrent curricula for the entire year.

Anyway, I start teaching on September 8 and I'll spend the next week laying out a schedule and putting my art room together and trying to get over the shock that I will be spending the next nine months walking the halls of elementary school once again.