1973 to 2010: Oroville High School, Art Teacher, VAPA Chair and Head Wrestling Coach. David's teaching assignments have been Art/ Art Appreciation, Art !! / Graphic Design, Advanced Art, AP* Studio Art and Adult School Ceramics/Sculpture. David is now retired and teaching Adult Education classes. He has mentored over thirty five teachers over the years. He has contributed to the standards developed and content for all of the current Art Teacher assessments: National Board Certification of Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood, PRAXIS and CSET Exams and has been a reader and trainer of readers for all of these exams. He served on the U.S. Department of the Interior, Junior Duck Stamp Curriculum committee and helped in introducing the fifth standard in California's VAPA framework.
Currently David is a College Board* Advanced Placement* Studio Art workshop consultant/presenter and a reader at the Advanced Placement* Studio Art Portfolio and Praxis Exams. He serves as a member of the University of California Cadre of Visual and Performing Arts Experts Commission on Teacher Credentialing Bias Review Committee and The Commission of Accreditation Site Visitation Team, examining teaher presentation programs. He is also active as a California Art Project Staff member since 1988, California Art Education Member and past officer and National Art Education Association Member since 1974. He received the California Art Education Association Outstanding Seconday Educator in 1992, California Art Education Association Outstanding Visual Program award in 1996, and the National Art Education Association Pacific Region Secondary Art Educator Award in 1999.
Participants will experience a lecture, demonstration and several art making experiences that will encourage discussion and reflections on their practice as art educators. The discussions will target the aesthetics that AP* readers are trained to recognize as benchmarks for the assessment of students work that are presented in the AP* Studio Art Drawing, 2-D Design and 3=D Design national portfolio reading session. Participants are expected to bring drawing supplies, X-acto knife, favorite acrylic painting brushes, student works, a digital camera (if possible) and if possible a laptop with image processing software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements or I photo. The camera and computer can be used to prepare works for digital slide production. Participants are encouraged to bring successful lessons to share.
This institute will provide USB drives for all students. The Instructor will provide 2B pencil, 4B general Black and White pencils, fine point Vis-a-vis pen - Black, Aluminum foil 12: wide, 12 Color dt of Prisacolors Pencils, Black Paper 12x18, White Drawing Paper 12 x 18, 8 x 11 Plastic Sheets, LCD Projector.
MONDAY
* Review the mission of the College Board* Advanced Placement Program*.
* Access and Equity
* The Course Audit
* The Drawing Portfolio Best Practices discussion, Hands on studio work
* The Portfolio Reading Process
TUESDAY
* Finish the discussion of the Drawing portfolio Best Practice
* The 2-D Design portfolio, Breadth, Concentration, Quality. the Scoring Guidelines
* 2-D Design best practices discussion, Hands on studio work
* Mock reading - Concentration and Breadth from Drawing and 2-D Design Portfolios
WEDNESDAY
* Continuation of 2-D Design Portfolio best practice
* 3-D Design Portfolio, Breadth, Concentration, Quality , The Scoring Guidelines
* Review College Board Resources for the AP* Studio Art instructor
* Grading of Student work and critique model, beginning an AP* Studio Art Class
* Developing Breadth and Concentration ideas for the Drawing. 2-D and 3-D design portfolios
THURSDAY
* Computer Lab, Photographing Student work and preparing student work
* Digital Submission Process
* Digital best practices discussion, Hands on studio work
* Review of concepts
* Mock Reading of Quality Drawing, 2-D Design and 3-D Design
* Institute wrap up and evaluation
