My name is Julie Midkiff and I am elementary Art at Bradley Elementary in Raleigh County. I teach Pre-K through 5th grade Art on a three-day rotating schedule and serve on our school’s Leadership Team. Currently, I am a student in the Doctorate of Education in Curriculum and Instruction at Marshall University.
I began my teaching career at the Alternative Education Center in Sophia, WV as a Special Education Teacher and completed my Masters in Special Education from Marshall University in 2006. I achieved National Board Certification in Early and Middle Childhood Art in 2012 and was a 2013 Rural Trust Global Teacher Fellow, who in collaboration with our gifted teacher, traveled through Europe and the Mediterranean studying art/craft techniques and processes and compared these techniques and processes to the Arts and Crafts traditions of Appalachia. I completed the certificate program in Educational Leadership/Public School Principal/Administration from Concord University in December of 2015. I am excited to announce that I have been selected as a 2018 National Education Association Foundation Global Learning Fellow. As part of this travel opportunity I will travel to South Africa in July 2018 with 48 public school educators and engage in year of additional coursework to build global competency skills (the capacity to understand and act on issues of global significance) within my classroom. On the other side of the teacher’s desk, I am a multi-media artist working in painting, printmaking, surface design, quilting, and embroidery. I enjoy traveling domestically and abroad and use these opportunities and interactions as a theme and as imagery in my artwork. |