About Ms. Lee:
I completed my student teaching in the north Chicago suburbs. I earned my Masters of Education in Art Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - go Illini! At the beginning of my teaching career, I taught at three different schools in Chicago. I also have experience teaching in rural, suburban, and inner city schools. This will be my fifth year teaching at Chicago Public Schools.
When I am not teaching I enjoy traveling. In the past couple years, I traveled all throughout Europe, made art in South Korea, and this winter I'll be visiting Ecuador. I also enjoy attending artist workshops. I love painting, photography, upcycling old furniture, and spending a whole day at museums. I also love science experiments, cooking, yoga, running with my dogs (Benny & Luca), and celebrating my Korean-American heritage. My favorite color is turquoise.
When I am not teaching I enjoy traveling. In the past couple years, I traveled all throughout Europe, made art in South Korea, and this winter I'll be visiting Ecuador. I also enjoy attending artist workshops. I love painting, photography, upcycling old furniture, and spending a whole day at museums. I also love science experiments, cooking, yoga, running with my dogs (Benny & Luca), and celebrating my Korean-American heritage. My favorite color is turquoise.
Ms. Lee's Philosophy on Art Education:
As both an artist and educator, my goal is to provide my students with lessons that foster healthy mental development. I design my curricula to incorporate a combination of technique building, art history, cross-cultural studies, experimentation, and interdisciplinary skills. I prefer a collaborative classroom environment that encourages critique and exploration. I believe the contemporary and traditional arts should coexist to offer new perspectives for one another. Art is continuously evolving in interactive mediums both in physical and digital space. I believe that art education should utilize new media to adapt to the constant flux that is art. Art education should prepare young adults to recognize, decode, and respond to the thousands of visual culture and media experiences that students encounter on a daily basis. It should also provide an outlet for students to reflect and create meaningful work that relate to each child's own unique and personal lives.
A successful curriculum will channel student's preexisting knowledge and guide them to build forward. Students should be able to question not only what or why they are passionate about a topic, but explore how they are passionate. Although art involves building skills over time, it certainly is not solely based on technical skills, color theory, elements/principles of design, or other partial truths. It needs to focus on a life-long practice of self-study, process, and knowing. Art education is crucial for students of all ages (especially K-8) because it embodies a balanced combination of critical thinking, problem solving, and appropriate social/communication skills needed to survive in today's world.
I am an advocate for using art as a tool for self expression, but also for promoting social change and impacting others around us. I strongly encourage students to acquire creative, divergent thinking patterns that provoke challenge, seek new perspectives, shift students outside of their comfort zones, and prepare students to consistently question the world around them. I believe that teachers are students, and students are just as equally teachers.
A successful curriculum will channel student's preexisting knowledge and guide them to build forward. Students should be able to question not only what or why they are passionate about a topic, but explore how they are passionate. Although art involves building skills over time, it certainly is not solely based on technical skills, color theory, elements/principles of design, or other partial truths. It needs to focus on a life-long practice of self-study, process, and knowing. Art education is crucial for students of all ages (especially K-8) because it embodies a balanced combination of critical thinking, problem solving, and appropriate social/communication skills needed to survive in today's world.
I am an advocate for using art as a tool for self expression, but also for promoting social change and impacting others around us. I strongly encourage students to acquire creative, divergent thinking patterns that provoke challenge, seek new perspectives, shift students outside of their comfort zones, and prepare students to consistently question the world around them. I believe that teachers are students, and students are just as equally teachers.