Hi everyone! My name is Emily Ziegler. I am a high school art teacher at Glens Falls HS in upstate New York. At my school, I teach Digital Art 1 & 2, Cartooning &Illustration, Animation, Fashion Design, 3D Digital Art, Fibers and Studio Art. I am also one of my school's NHS advisors. This is my third year teaching, second year at this school. This is also my first semester at SUNY Empire in the Curriculum and Instruction masters program. Prior to my teaching career and degrees, I graduated from SUNY Buffalo State College with a double B.F.A in Jewelry and Fibers in 2019 and then again with a Post-Baccalaureate Certification in Art Education in 2021.
I have completely fallen in love with teaching after my meandering pathway to this career. I got the opportunity to create all of the current classes I teach from the ground up which was an amazing experience and am currently in the process of assessing how well the classes work from semester to semester in order to improve them for next year, but I am very excited for the challenge. Career wise, I am looking to continue to expand the offerings of art classes at the school I work at, I really want to get a jewelry class going in the next few years as well as work with my colleagues to further develop our IAAP program. Curriculum and instruction appealed to me for my masters program as I enjoyed learning about crafting curriculum in my Post-Bacc Art Ed. program and with the restructure of our school's art program, felt that this particular masters would provide me with invaluable information on how to best create, modify and refine the 7 new course curriculums I wrote. The goal being to develop and refine the line between learning and engaging with art processes, developing new skills, integrating arts with life and balancing creative physical work with upper level content.
I was interested in taking this course to continue to develop and learn new strategies to apply in my classroom. Majority of my classes are digital, but there is a still a large disconnect for students to move between the chromebook space to non-chromebook assignments, programs, and helping them navigate the digital world outside of school and also their phones and social media. I also hope to get out of this class new methods and strategies to engage students through alternative digital methods since I think they can get inundated with the same digital programs that if there was variation and alternatives would help their engagement.
I love to cook, make art, read, camp, boat, ski and a plethora of other things that I can't pull to the forefront of my mind at the moment! Can't wait to work with you all!
I have completely fallen in love with teaching after my meandering pathway to this career. I got the opportunity to create all of the current classes I teach from the ground up which was an amazing experience and am currently in the process of assessing how well the classes work from semester to semester in order to improve them for next year, but I am very excited for the challenge. Career wise, I am looking to continue to expand the offerings of art classes at the school I work at, I really want to get a jewelry class going in the next few years as well as work with my colleagues to further develop our IAAP program. Curriculum and instruction appealed to me for my masters program as I enjoyed learning about crafting curriculum in my Post-Bacc Art Ed. program and with the restructure of our school's art program, felt that this particular masters would provide me with invaluable information on how to best create, modify and refine the 7 new course curriculums I wrote. The goal being to develop and refine the line between learning and engaging with art processes, developing new skills, integrating arts with life and balancing creative physical work with upper level content.
I was interested in taking this course to continue to develop and learn new strategies to apply in my classroom. Majority of my classes are digital, but there is a still a large disconnect for students to move between the chromebook space to non-chromebook assignments, programs, and helping them navigate the digital world outside of school and also their phones and social media. I also hope to get out of this class new methods and strategies to engage students through alternative digital methods since I think they can get inundated with the same digital programs that if there was variation and alternatives would help their engagement.
I love to cook, make art, read, camp, boat, ski and a plethora of other things that I can't pull to the forefront of my mind at the moment! Can't wait to work with you all!
Welcome, Emily! I think this class should provide some great theoretical grounding for making and sharing the wonderful representations of learning you're already creating with your students. Welcome!!
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