Jodi Watkins is an art educator with over 15 years of experience teaching elementary art in Minnesota and currently at the International School of Kenya in Nairobi. She plans and implements standards-based art curriculums, exercises creative problem solving, and increases her focus on the design cycle and teaching artistic behavior. She has held various leadership roles within art departments and started elementary art programs at multiple schools.
Jodi Watkins is an art educator with over 15 years of experience teaching elementary art in Minnesota and currently at the International School of Kenya in Nairobi. She plans and implements standards-based art curriculums, exercises creative problem solving, and increases her focus on the design cycle and teaching artistic behavior. She has held various leadership roles within art departments and started elementary art programs at multiple schools.
Jodi Watkins is an art educator with over 15 years of experience teaching elementary art in Minnesota and currently at the International School of Kenya in Nairobi. She plans and implements standards-based art curriculums, exercises creative problem solving, and increases her focus on the design cycle and teaching artistic behavior. She has held various leadership roles within art departments and started elementary art programs at multiple schools.
Elementary Art Teacher Leadership Phone 320-220-0603 International School of Kenya • Elementary Specialist Head (ISK), Nairobi, Kenya of Department (4 years) Skype 2014-Current • Responsible for proposing jodimwatkins2 Classroom Teaching budget, ordering all • Plan and implement a supplies, materials and Email standards-based art equipment within budget jodiwatkins2@gmail.com curriculum inclusive of parameter for the Website academic, socio-emotional elementary art department Home of Record and learning needs of • Served as a supervising https:// 540 Hwy 104 NE jodiwatkins2.weebly.com/ students in grades 1-5. teacher for a teacher in Sunburg, MN 56289 United States • Exercise creative problem training solving and decision making skills though visual art Additional Teaching Experience • Increase of focus on the EDUCATION & LICENSURE Design Cycle and T.A.B Art Teacher LICENSURES (Teaching Artistic Behavior) Grey Cloud Elementary School Minnesota Teaching License • Collaborate with core subject Cottage Grove, Minnesota K-12 Visual Art area teachers to reinforce 2007-2014 K-6 Elementary Education classroom content • Kindergarten - Fifth Grade • Develop a variety of • Started and help develop GRADUATE STUDIES assessments to record the elementary art program. Saint Mary’s University, Winona, student's growth Minnesota. Master of Education: Teaching & • Create a safe and Art Teacher (Long-Term Learning, 2009 welcoming environment to Substitute) encourage kids in creativity. Chaska Elementary School Hamline University, St. Paul, Community Chaska, Minnesota Minnesota • Collaborate with the 2006-2007 Additional Licensure Program: elementary arts teachers to • Kindergarten - Fifth Grade Elementary Education, K-6, 2013 organize elementary art shows and develop an Art Teacher (part-time) UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES elementary Arts Week Bayview Elementary School University of Minnesota-Duluth, • Work with an artists-in- Waconia, Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota residence to enhance 2005-2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Art Education, student experiences and • Pre-School - Fourth Grade 2001 make community • Started and help develop connections the elementary art program. ADDITIONAL ART TRAININGS • Teach after school art based SCAD Educator Forum activities Art Teacher (part-time) Savannah College of Art and Design, 2019 • Co-Lead Middle School and Pioneer Ridge Freshman Center High School Service Chaska, Minnesota Teaching For Artist Behavior (TAB) Learning program working 2005-2006 Summer Institute with the Autism Support • Ninth Grade: Painting, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Center Kenya Ceramics, and Drawing 2018 • Facilitated elementary student leadership group Connecting Collections Summer Institute • Co-direct all-school musical MOMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Guggenheim, 2016