Professional Excellence Infused with Creative Teaching Expertise
Building Student Centered, Data Driven, Arts Integrated Learning Communities where Standards are Exceeded & Humanity Thrives.
Teaching and Learning With Amy Swanson
Education and Professional Certifications
- Lesley University, Cambridge Massachusetts -May 2010
- Master of Education (ME), Integrated Teaching through the Arts
- University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado-May 2003
- Bachelor of Art and Education, Sociology of Education and Elementary Education Licensure
Professional Teaching License K-6, Colorado Department of Education
- Professional Teaching License K-6, Colorado Department of Education
5 Year Substitute Authorization K-12, Colorado Department of Education
- Active Status, License #308865, Expires 05/21/2024
Recommendations and Evaluations from Colleagues and Supervisors
Click the link below to read letters of recommendation from previous colleagues, supervising administrators, and parents of former students. I have also attached a few of my formal evaluation highlights with the hope of conveying my passion for teaching and my willingness to collaborate, innovate, solve problems, meet standards, and develop a genuine love of learning in my students.
A Glimpse into Learning in My Classroom
I have provided links to there separate videos that show my teaching in action and give insight into my philiosophy of education and learning .
The first link will play a video I created for a course in my masters degree program related to improving curriculm development and assesment methods by integrating the arts. I will warn you ahead of watching, it is pretty ridiculous and silly but it does support the inclusion of practices you will see in my teaching. It also shows some of the actual activities done with my students to promote higher level thinking and collaboration.
The second video was shot by the Adams 50 School District Media team to highlight my teaching practices after I was nominated by administrators and parents and won the Rotary International Foundation-Westminster Club’s Teacher of Excellence Award .
The final video link shows an arts integration storytelling project i did with my students to eestrablish behabior expectations during the first few weeks of school.