Ms. Gaub teaches many classes in Middle School (6th through 8th) including Visual arts, digital arts and Computer Technology. She loves gardening, creating art and playing with her dog, Charger.
She graduated from The Evergreen State College in 1989, with a Fine Arts Degree with courses covering performance and visual arts such as Film/video, Drawing/painting, Fashion Design along with Small Business Management and Education.
After working in the work or retail, including managing a Seattle Art Gallery, she returned to school in 1999. Graduating from City University a year later with a Master in Teaching, she began her teaching years.
Ms. Gaub taught Drama and English for the Edmonds School District for four years. Her time there included producing several student plays, writing scripts for student performance, and earning grants to support these endeavors.
Currently, she teaches Art, Digital Art and Computer Technology for the Everett School District. Students in Visual Arts explore a variety of mediums in the Teaching For Artistic Behavior Classroom by accessing studios and meeting challenges based on themes and genres. In Digital Art, students explore visual arts mediums that require technology, such as animation, photography, video and podcasting. In Computer Technology, students learn basic computer skills including publishing, research and using the internet safely.
Sharing her knowledge with other educators has been a focus since 2006 when she presented at the Washington State Art Educators Art Conference with a workshop of Digital Art Projects using Photoshop. She went on to present the same at the National Conference in NYC in 2007. She returned to present again in Washington on Podcasting in the Classroom. Teaching for the district’s professional development department she has taught over 100 district teachers how to use podcasting with students. In 2008, she added classes in video.
Ms. Gaub writes and recieves grants for her classroom on the district and state level.
The purpose of this web blog is to showcase the lessons and artwork used with my middle school students. The information provided is intended for those interested in the middle school arts. You will see links to my lessons and galleries of student art.
Cynthia Gaub is the author and host. I am pleased to share what I have, but please do NOT republish without permission. Feel free to link to my pages and let me know in a comment if you find them valuable. I always love to hear how my lessons work for other people.
This website is not intended for my students but for other teaching professionals. I have another location for students to find classnotes, student gallery and assignment due dates.
http://blogs.everettsd.org/cgaub
http://www.everett.k12.wa.us/north/cgaub/home
http://gallery.thevirtualclassroom.org/
I am always grateful of the online help I recieve from Judy at the Incredible Art Deptartment and the wonderful teachers at Yahoo TAB group
MY goodness…how do you accomplish all this with Middle School!! I only see my 7th and 8th graders for 18 days in a row first half of the year and again in the second half of the year, how do you many so much activity??
Danette Kerrigan,
Middle school Art Teacher
South Hiram , Maine
I am a .5 K-5 art specialist in Spokane, Washington (right now I have Kindergarten all year M, W 3 classes a half an hour twice a week and just finished first grade twice a week for 30 minutes now on to second grade once a week for an hour) I would love to visit your class (either elementary or middle school) if I could.
I am impressed by your site. I love that you have your art classes represented. I need to include my class artwork and music into my blog.
Mr. C