My teaching responsibilities have included creating lesson plans, preparing and facilitating lectures, and critiquing student’s work. I have also worked as a Workshop Teacher with Black & White Photography as a "Motion Expert" at Oatland Island Wildlife Center workshops, as well as a Teaching Intern of Portraiture Photography, at SCAD.
My education includes a broad range of studies including Interpersonal Communication, English Language Teaching to Adults, Eastern Philosophy, Fine Art and Visual Arts. My involvement in these areas has helped shape me as a teacher, encouraging student’s creativity and innovation in the classroom. I have also taken a year long Continuing Education / Pedagogy Workshopat SCAD, in order to assist in developing a teaching philosophy that is supportive and encouraging of interdisciplinary study.
I have recently earned my Cambridge CELTA qualification from Concord International, in Canterbury, UK, where I worked intensively teaching and learning context; encouraging language analysis and awareness; targeting language skills; planning for different contexts; and developing teaching skills and professionalism. Currently I am finishing my MFA Thesis at SCAD, "Striving for Artistic Congruence and Simplicity as a Means Towards Societal Cohesiveness”, which encourages a deeply symbiotic relationship between the artist and their community. I will graduate this fall.
My background includes a great deal of involvement with public relations and community organization. I am committed to the research of my ideas through the exploration of my medium. My ideas are rooted in the theory that by integrating the mind, body, spirit of the individual, with that of the community collective, can help bring them a more acute self-awareness and inside perspective. By incorporating this internal insight with a universalized understanding of our individual identities, one has the broadened capacity of seeing themselves in a universal context. Essentially, my work is an exploration of the relationship between people and their environment, and the constitutive relationship they have with one another.
My focus is on the active role and responsibility that an individual (artist) must take within the greater scope of the (art) world. This being said, I have an extensive volunteer history within the local community with photography and graphics for the Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, ESL tutoring in Mexico, and DVRT – Domestic Violence Response Team (45 hour training and certificate, for the state of NJ) in and out of NJ county jails.
I thoroughly enjoy the realm of education, as well as the ability to promote confidence and energetic thinking. Given my interdisciplinary education along with a range of other core-building experiences, I see the chance to assist students in the development of skills that will enable them to realize and achieve their own goals.
I see education is an interactive, regenerative process that helps expand and promote intimate communication. My commitment to promoting higher education allows for an opportunity to help students to evolve as individuals in our society. I believe that one must evaluate how they perceive and interact with their community, as a means to effect individual change. I also have a sincere enthusiasm for helping redefine and create core curriculum in scholastic settings, as well as help integrate the CELTA/ESL way of teaching into standard classroom instruction.
I look forward to discussing the contributions I can make towards the growth of your program.
Thank you for your consideration,
Sincerely,
Denielle Nigretto
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