IIPTS Standard 1 – Teaching Diverse Students – The competent teacher understands the diverse characteristics and abilities of each student and how individuals develop and learn within the context of their social, economic, cultural, linguistic, and academic experiences. The teacher uses these experiences to create instructional opportunities that maximize student learning.
CLinical Experience
2024
Fieldcrest Highschoool
Minonk IL
CT: Tim Kowalczyk
Intro To Art
Freshman and Sophomore Students Age 14-16
IPTS (2013) STANDARD 2 – Content Area and Pedagogical Knowledge –
The competent teacher has in-depth understanding of content area knowledge that includes central concepts, methods of inquiry, structures of the disciplines, and content area literacy. The teacher creates meaningful learning experiences for each student based upon interactions among content area and pedagogical knowledge, and evidence-based practice.
Description:
This artwork contains photographs of someone in a hazmat suit spraying plants. There are figures who are consuming foods that are colored red. There is a sign that reads, “danger pesticides” and a figure holding a can of pesticide
Rationale:
This is an example work for culture jamming. The content of this artwork is focused on pesticide use on American food. The artwork uses collaged printed images, stenciling, calk and oil pastels to communicate the intent of the project.
Unit PLan
IPTS (2013) – STANDARD 1 – Teaching Diverse Students – The competent teacher understands the diverse characteristics and abilities of each student and how individuals develop and learn within the context of their social, economic, cultural, linguistic, and academic experiences. The teacher uses these experiences to create instructional opportunities that maximize student learning.
Description: What are you teaching and how are you teaching it?
Description:
The intent of this unit plan is to teach students how to use various materials to create a mixed media artwork. Intro ducing students to stenciling and using pastels to develop artworks, this unit focused on the topic of culture jamming.
Rationale:
The goal is for students to begin to think about that images seen in popular culture and to subvert their message in some way.
211 STUDIO ASSIGNMENT ASSESSMENT
IPTS (2013) -STANDARD 7 – Assessment – The competent teacher understands and uses appropriate formative and summative assessment for determining student needs, monitoring student progress, measuring student growth, and evaluating student outcomes. The teacher makes decisions driven by data about curricular and instructional effectiveness and adjusts practices to meet the needs of each student.
Description:
This assessment is to gague student’s understanding of the objectives for this unit plan.
Rationale:
Students are expected to create an artist proof of the stencil, an artists proof of a pastel drawing, and a final work that combines both stencil and pastel to communicate a message of culture jamming.
ARTIST HANDOUT AND POWER POINT
IPTS (2013) STANDARD 6 -Reading, Writing, and Oral Communication – The competent teacher has foundational knowledge of reading, writing, and oral communication within the content area and recognizes and addresses student reading, writing, and oral communication needs to facilitate the acquisition of content knowledge.
Description:
Presentaiton that inclues objectives and artists that are refered to in this unit plan. Handouts are included.
Rationale:
The presentation and handouts contain Conceptual Frameworks that use historical and critical information, websites, questions, vocabulary, and suggestions for further study and art making.
PROFESSIONALISM, ADVOCACY & LEADERSHIP: PAL 1 (2 submissions)
IPTS (2013) STANDARD 9 – Professionalism, Leadership, and Advocacy – The competent teacher is an ethical and reflective practitioner who exhibits professionalism; provides leadership in the learning community; and advocates for students, parents or guardians, and the profession.
Description:
This is the outline document for a printmaking workship hosted by the Saint Louis Artists Guild in Saint Louis. The workshop was led by artist Lisa Lofgren.
Rationale:
I assisted Lisa during the workshop, trouble shooting techniques and compoisiontal issues with those who attened the workshop.
Description:
This artwork is a mixed media print that I submitted to the Student Annual Juried exhibition at Universirty Galleries of Illinois State University. This print won the Normal Editions Workshop Outstanding Graduate Print Award
Rationale:
I am participating in exhibiting my work and maintining a studio practice.
PROFESSIONALISM, ADVOCACY & LEADERSHIP: PAL 2
7N: advances his or her knowledge of current developments in the field by participating in professional development activities (e.g., coursework, professional organizations, and workshops).
Description:
This is an educator handout that engages with the art work of artsits James Welling and Chris Welsby. The handout was made for University Galleries at Illinois State University.
Rationale:
I created and developed this handout with the guidence of Tanya Scott, Curator of Educator at University Galleries.
Description:
Listed below are the Spring 2024 events that occured at the University Galleries.
Rationale:
I assisted in creating example artworks for the workshops held on saturdays at the gallery. I also worked and assitsted Curator of Education, Tanya Scott, in leading the workshops.
Original Lesson Plan and Powerpoint Before Revision
Why were there revisions?
To accommodate schedule changes with Fieldcrest’s testing dates and to give student more time on stenciling; this lesson plan was adjusted to what would be accomplished in the time remaining in our clinical experience.
T. Murphy 
