User:Kdenn008

Kaitlin Dennehy

I am a Fine Arts Major at Old Dominion Unniversity in Norfolk. I currently live in Virginia Beach, but have lived all over the United States. I was born in South Carolina, Moved to Boston, Mass and then moved to Denver, Colorado in first grade and grew up there. I went to Colorado State University (CSU) for two years. I have struggled with what I wanted to do with my career, so when my parents moved to Washington DC I decided to take a year off, work and live with them. Needless to say, I never moved back. I enrolled at ODU last fall, and have found the area to be a bit of a culture shock...having never really been around the beach.

My passion is Art, I am a Painting Major, I also love ceramics and glass-blowing, but realized I would need a job after I finally graduated and decided to to teach. I see myself working in high school at the start, and working on my Masters in Fine Art, the ultimate goal to teach in college.

My teaching philosophy is centered around the idea that art is important in all aspects of education and should be an outlet for all children. I am passionate when it comes to talking about art, i hope to motivate, inspire and create a welcoming environment in my classroom. I want my classroom to expose my students to new art froms, techniques and artists. i want the environment to be condusive to self-expression as well as self-exploration.I am, honestly, intimated by the school of education at ODU, feeling as if my subject (art-education) dose not quite fit-in or apply to most of the education classes i am taking, so i am looking forward to observing and hands-on teaching to really get to know what I will be doing, and what will be expected of me as an art teacher.

Hi Kaitlin. It's nice to meet you. You have a great teaching philosophy, especially when it comes to art. I really like art myself, but I am certainly not good enough to be an art teacher! So I opted to teach everything else instead (Pre-K -3). I think you are right about ODU's education classes not really applying to art. However, I do think that art is an important way for children to learn to express themselves. I wish you luck!

Kmayx003 (talk) 22:12, 12 September 2008 (UTC)