Teacher As Artist

A place for thinking about the creative work of teaching.

Hello and welcome to my website, TeacherAsArtist.org.

This is a site to encourage teachers to think about themselves as artists, as creators of insight and even of artifacts to propel students forward in their own journeys to creativity, innovation, and happiness.

This year I was one of 80 recipients nationally of the Fulbright program’s Teachers for Global Classrooms. This site contains my capstone project which I hope will orient you to what global education is, what resources you may wish to use, and also to insights about my Fulbright experience, my approach to interdisciplinary education, and more.

Global education is a way of thinking about teaching and learning in a way that is cognizant about the complexity of the world beyond our front door. It is a mindset that centers our shared humanity, interconnectedness, and interdependence. It transcends the confines of a particular nation’s idiosyncrasies and tries to get at what humans are known to thrive at: reliable information, dignity, freedom, and action. It is the realization that we are all in this world together. Even if it’s a broad concept, this Global Education Guide will help you explore it and provides usable websites to discover and perhaps integrate this mindset into your practice.

The site is divided into four main sections:

Home is where the heart is, and where we are now.

Learn is where I’ve defined global education more specifically and included mountains of reputable projects that organizations supporting global education have provided for the public. There is also a section on assessing how global your school already is!

Teach provides specific resources for you to employ in your classroom. If you were looking for a way to inspire you, I hope I’ve provided a museum’s worth of resources. Here you can find small and large ways to wade or dive into global education, as it becomes relevant and meaningful to you and your students. There are Project-Based-Learning examples relevant to nearly any community, and a special section for those of us teaching in New York City, as well as a set of digital tools that you’ll probably fall in love with.

Travel is my section on my own Fulbright International Field Experience in Peru. Curated mostly by the International Research and Exchange Board, I was privy to meetings with national education experts, visits to schools, cultural and gastronomic experiences, and most profoundly, an extended time in one particular school in Cusco, Peru where I built relationships with students and educators alike. Of course I also went to Machu Picchu (for the third time.). In this section you can take a look at my research question and reflections, and see photos of the charms of a nation everyone should be lucky enough to visit in their lifetime.

This website is not an official U.S. Department of State website. The views and information presented are the participant’s own and do not represent the Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, the U.S. Department of State, or IREX.