I have been hired on this year to be the art teacher at Mountain Peak private school located in Longmont, Colorado. It is a one day a week position on Tuesdays starting next week (September 6th, 2011). I am very excited to start - so much so that I actually wrote out all of my lesson plans for the ENTIRE year!
During the summer months I have the honor and privilege of working with some wonderful people at the Longmont Museum and Cultural Center. That job ended this year on August 5th. Both St. Vrain Valley and Boulder Valley School Districts did not start school until the 18th. So, being a substitute teacher for both districts, this meant that I was out of a job for about 2 weeks. I decided to spend my time preparing a curriculum for my position at Mountain Peak. It is a 16 unit plan, set in (roughly) chronological order on what can be considered art of the Modern Era. We will be starting with the Impressionists and working our way through the years up through Pop Art of the 1960-70s. This blog will chronicle that journey.
While I was looking for lesson plans to help me develop my curriculum, I noticed that there were very few choices for projects from some of the movements that I wanted to cover. It was then that I decided to start this blog to help art teachers who are in need of some "spicing up" of lesson plans, or some really fun sub plans that I have done in the past 3 years as a district sub. I hope this helps some and entertains many of you.
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