elmanarteducation
Currently the Visual Art Educator at Seth Low IS.96
Principal: Erin Lynch
District 21
About Me - Erin-Marie Elman
I have been working as a visual arts teacher since February 2006 and have been teaching 13 years. I have worked in the Lower East Side, Crown Heights and now Bensonhurst. I love my job.
"If you find a job that you love, you'll have never worked a day in your life." - Winston Churchill
NYCATA /UFT List of Current Advocacy and Professional Development:
The students showcase their work twice a year in the school building where all students show amazing work.
Instagram showcases student work: #sethlowartrocks
My students' artwork exhibits at Cope NYC's Reuse or Refuse Annual Exhibit
November of 2016, 2017, 2018 and in the
Inside Outside Exhibit Spring 2017, 2018 and will be exhibiting in May 2019
I have exhibited for the Arts Connection Exhibit 2016, 2017 and in 2018
Affiliations:
NYCATA / UFT Secretary 2014 - Present
Museum Resource Coordinator 2015, 2016 and 2017
NYSATA and NAEA Member
Professional Development:
Arts and Special Projects 2010 - 2018
Teacher Effectiveness 2012 - 2019
Digital Delta / Arts Connection: Teaching Formative Assessment through the use of IPads in the classroom. 2018 - 2019
Extra Curricular with Students:
I teach Dance Club Twice a week
Portfolio Club / Preparing Students for Visual Art October - December
I have a Mural Club through Brooklyn Arts Council- Thursdays February- June
I collaborated with the Theatre Teacher, making masks with my Self Contained class for the Lion King.
I work with the administration to recruit kids from feeder schools working with students at P.R.I.D.E assemblies from other schools.
I teach a 6th and 7th grade advisory.
I am a trained CTLE provider.
I am trained in Restorative Circles.
Have student teachers affiliated with Brooklyn College
I am a trained ASD Nest Teacher.
Spoke at Teachers College last year regarding Assessment in the ASD NEST Classroom.
Nominated for the Big Apple Award NYC - Fall, 2018 by my Principal.
