Biography

 

I have been working in Art education for over 20 years. After seven years of running art history tours of Europe for the world's most rigorous educational travel company I became a studio art teacher.  After fifteen years of classroom teaching I am enjoying my job and life more than ever.

I speak 7 languages. I am fluent in: English, French&  Italian and can have a chat in Spanish, German, Cantonese and Mandarin.

 

Below are portfolios of 3 years spent in 3 different schools in Beijing, Hong Kong & London. 

 

These videos show my core teaching concerns and aims which are :

• Get students to feel good about what they can do.

• Help students learn that they can teach themselves anything.

• Learning by doing.

• Cultural investigation.

• Sketchbooking.

• Group work.

• Display- in school and online media.

• Lots of trips outside the classroom.

• Animation & special FX.

• Environmental concern.

 

Contact: msmith@unis.org