This document contains a teaching portfolio summarizing Lesa Brosky's experiences with various art lessons and projects from her time as a student teacher and substitute teacher. It provides examples of lessons she taught on bubble wrap dinosaurs, patriotic prints, train prints, still life drawing, ceramic vessels, mosaic mirrors, abstract painting, and math-integrated art. It also highlights ways she displayed and shared student artwork with the community through volunteering and community engagement projects.

1. LesaBroskyTeaching Portfolio

2. A collection of drawing, ceramic, mosaic and painting lessons from my student teaching and long-term substitute teaching experiences.Student Examples

3. Bubble Wrap DinosaursGrandview Elementary School2nd GradeGeneral Goals: Students will use recycled objects to create a textured illustration of a dinosaur in its natural habitat.Grade2 :Dinosaurs

4. After researching and choosing a dinosaur, students sketched a dinosaur of their choice.Then, students cut out the drawings and traced the image onto recycled bubble wrap.Grade2 :Dinosaurs

5. Students used paint to add color and design to their dinosaurs.Students also ripped paper to depict a natural habitat.Grade2 :Dinosaurs

6. Bubble Wrap Dinosaurs:FinishedExamplesGrade2 :Dinosaurs

7. Patriotic PrintsGrandview Elementary School3rd GradeGeneral Goals: Students will create block prints of historical United States buildings or monumentsGrade 3: Prints

8. Introduction: historyUsing a PowerPoint, students identified a number of U.S. monuments and their importance.Grade 3: Prints

9. Introduction: Basic shapesUsing Smart Board technology, the entire class broke these monuments and buildings into basic shapes.Grade 3: Prints

10. Preliminary sketchesStudents used basic shapes to create sketches of an important US building or monument of their choice.Grade 3: Prints

11. Students copied their sketches to foam board to create block prints.Grade 3: Prints

12. Patriotic Print display during the Presidential InaugurationGrade 3: Prints

13. Derry TrainsGrandview Elementary School5rd GradeGeneral Goals: Students will create and critique prints that represent the history of their community. Grade 5: Ink Prints

14. Student Examples:Train Prints Inspired from the Local Train Industry.Grade 5: Ink Prints

15. Student Examples:Train Prints Inspired from the Local Train Industry.Grade 5: Ink Prints

16. Student Examples:Train Prints Inspired from the Local Train Industry.Grade 5: Ink Prints

17. The Lesson Ended with a Critique GameThis game gave students an opportunity to give and receive constructive criticism.

18. Still Life DrawingIndiana Junior High School 7th GradeGeneral Goals: Students will become knowledgeable of the techniques used to draw an image realistically.Grade 7: Still Life

19. Contour and gestureFirst, students practiced drawing using contour and gestural lines. They chose their best work to reproduce on a larger scale.Grade 7: Still Life

20. Before CritiqueStudents were taught how to use tones and shading.After CritiqueStudents critiqued each other in order to make one final drawing.Grade 7: Still Life

21. Student ExampleGrade 7: Still Life

22. Student ExampleGrade 7: Still Life

23. Student ExampleGrade 7: Still Life

24. Student ExampleGrade 7: Still Life

25. Ceramic VesselIndiana Junior High School 7th GradeGeneral Goals: Students will become knowledgeable of the techniques used to create a coil vessel that demonstrates shape, form, balance, pattern and repetition.Grade 7: Ceramics

26. CeramicVocabulary DisplayGrade 7: Ceramics

27. Display I created for the color/design portion of the lessonGrade 7: Ceramics

28. After the color and design lesson, students designed their own ceramic vesselGrade 7: Ceramics

29. Then, students coiled clay into these vessels and painted themGrade 7: Ceramics

30. Side ViewAerial ViewGrade 7: Ceramics

31. Side ViewAerial ViewGrade 7: Ceramics

32. Side ViewAerial ViewGrade 7: Ceramics

33. Mosaic MirrorsIndiana Junior High School 9th GradeGeneral Goals: Students will become more familiar with the history of mosaics and radial design and incorporate that knowledge in creating their own piece of mosaic artwork.Grade 9: Mosaic

34. Every Student:Created their own radial design

35. Cut their own glass pieces

36. Glued tesserae to recycled ceramic platesGrade 9: Mosaic

37. Student Examples (before wiped clean)Grade 9: Mosaic

38. Student ExampleGrade 9: Mosaic

39. Student ExampleGrade 9: Mosaic

40. Student ExampleGrade 9: Mosaic

41. Abstract PaintingIndiana Junior High School 9th GradeGeneral Goals: To introduce the students to the history and production of abstract painting by creating an abstracted self portrait.Grade 9: Abstract

42. Students were required to draw a proportionate self-portraitBEFOREDrawing an abstracted self-portrait

43. Students then used acrylic paint to paint their drawingsGrade 9: Abstract

44. Students then used acrylic paint to paint their drawingsGrade 9: Abstract

45. Math Integrated Art Lessons Some learning support teachers requested I integrate a few art lessons to help reiterate math conceptsIntegration

46. Math Integrated Art Lessons Some learning support teachers requested I integrate a few art lessons to help reiterate math conceptsAn AM and a PM clock drawingdemonstratingtime specific activitiesIntegration

47. Math Integrated Art Lessons Some learning support teachers requested I use a few art lessons to help reiterate math concepts (measuring, counting, geometry, telling time) in our art classesDrawing with measurementIntegration

48. Math Integrated Art Lessons Some learning support teachers requested I use a few art lessons to help reiterate math concepts (measuring, counting, geometry, telling time) in our art classesA Jasper JohnsInspired MultiplesDesignIntegration

49. Math Integrated Art Lessons Students created a book about counting by 5’sIntegration

50. Displaying Student ArtworkI find it important to beautify the school by showcasing student workDisplaying Work

51. A student art display I created for Open HouseDisplaying Work

52. “Cutting, soldering and coiling! Oh My!”9th GradeStained Glass/Ceramic Display CaseDisplaying Work

53. Displaying Work

54. My 9th graders’ stained glass windows decorated the windows around the school.Displaying Work

55. Beautiful 7th Grade shoe drawings filled the hallwaysDisplaying Work

56. Patriotic Printmaking DisplayDisplaying Work

57. Bringing Art into The CommunityVolunteer Work

58. While pre-teaching in Philadelphia, I was privileged to volunteer with the Urban Garden Organization.We converted litter filled vacant lots into beautiful and useful community gardens.

59. While student teaching at Grandview Elementary,I created this backdrop for the school musical.Volunteer Work

60. As part of CALM (Children and Artists Linked Through murals), I was able to help create this mural in the Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital cafeteria.

61. Volunteer Work

62. With the help of a few of my talented learning support students, we created this festive banner for a local business in Tidioute, PA.Volunteer Work

63. As part of the IUP NAEA, we created a children’s alley during an arts festival.At no expense, children could create fun, multi-cultural art projects!Volunteer Work