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Katie Lynn Walker
2541 North Garfield Ave · 970-889-1880
[email protected] · https://katielynnwalker.weebly.com/
Education:
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Graduation Date: January 2020
Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration art education and painting
- Bookstaber Scholarship for Art Education
- Evalyn Prouty Hickman Scholarship
- Dean’s List
Student Teaching Experience:
Rocky Mountain High School, Fort Collins, CO. August 2019-October 2019
- Designed emergent curriculum aligned with Colorado Visual Arts Standards with a focus on creating engaging lessons that offered opportunities for intrinsic motivation amongst students.
- Planned lessons that accommodated for varying student needs in access and expression and appealed to interdisciplinary literacy.
- Managed jewelry, pottery, and 2D art classrooms in an independent and co-teaching format accounting for daily interactions with individual students and pacing for the success of the class as a whole.
- Designed lessons with the intent of teaching students to think and work like artists through authentic ideation, planning, creation, reflection, and assessment.
- Developed lessons that provided students with an opportunity to explore ideas related to identity, social justice, dichotomy, and biomimicry while introducing students to important techniques and materials within each artistic medium and managing materials such as metal, clay and various artistic tools.
- Lessons and pictures of student art can be found here: Teaching Portfolio
O’Dea Elementary School, Fort Collins, CO. October 2019-December 2019
- Developed lessons that challenged students to think and work like artists through authentic idea generation and fabrication using multiple artistic studios while aligning with Colorado Visual Arts Standards.
- Designed curriculum that provided students with varying educational needs opportunities to reach learning targets through high levels of student choice and accommodations for skill level in artistic process and product.
- Created an engaging and inclusive environment for students to explore the relationships between science, literacy, numeracy and art.
- Provided students with opportunities and instruction needed to explore the tools and materials of various artistic studios including fibers, collage, painting, drawing, and architecture. Introduced contemporary and historical artists to provide students with inspiration and opportunities to transfer their artistic knowledge to areas outside the classroom.
- Lessons and pictures of student art can be found here: Teaching Portfolio
Related Teaching Experience:
Educational Standards and Assessment: January-May2019
- Created and taught lessons for high school students that posed an artistic question and facilitated students in finding the answer through authentic artistic idea generation and expression. https://katielynnwalker.weebly.com/introduction.html
- Facilitated tutoring sessions in which students aided their peers in solving complicated math problems through authentic questioning aimed towards solutions.
- Designed curriculum for a fifth-grade art class with the focus of introducing scientific topics and modes of thinking. Responsible for creating a newsletter and art show for students to showcase their artistic endeavors. https://katielynnwalker.weebly.com/polaris-newsletter.html
- Planned and created activities that taught students how to interact with, appreciate, and make art in a museum setting. Taught young artists the value of exploring historical and contemporary works of art to relate to world cultures and perspectives through a new lens.
- Developed a full semester of curriculum designed to facilitate students with varying educational needs in creating works of art that explored their ideas about the world around them. https://katielynnwalker.weebly.com/art-325-concepts-in-art-education.html
Work Experience:
Wild Roots Art Studio, Fort Collins, CO. June 2015-Currently Employed Nature Guide and art instructor
- Planned activities for K-5 students to create artwork with nature as their subject and medium in order to strengthen their connection to the environment.
- Link to Wild Roots Studio Webpage: http://www.wildrootsstudio.com/
Nanny
- Designed educational and imaginative adventures for Lawson (age 4) and Grant (age 2) throughout the summer and school year.
- Designed art curriculum for pre-school aged children based on Waldorf pedagogy.
- Guided and instructed students in basic survival as well as plant and animal identification.
Childcare Assistant
- Organized day activities, meals, field trips and learning opportunities for students K-5 in after school and summer camps.
Laura Cronen: 970-231-1397, [email protected] Art Instructor, Rocky Mountain High School.
Rosalie King: 970-310-5216, [email protected] Art Instructor, O’dea Elementary School.
Alie Rich: 970-412-4523, [email protected] Art Instructor, Wild Roots Studio.