Amy Gordon and Bob Greene

Gordon’s and Greene’s innovative teaching idea, “Conceptual Ideas Transform Into Physical World Projects,” focuses on providing an enhanced “art shop” art experience for the students at Northside Elementary School and the community’s local high school. Through the program, students will meet with their prospective high school student partner to brainstorm ideas for the creation of a project that both students have a mutual interest in designing. Those elementary students participating in the program will draw their ideas on paper and the high school student partner will then create computer aided drawings of the way they envision the project to be completed. Between revisions of drawings and layouts, the older students will participate in real life scenarios as the younger students will be seen as their customers. This program will offer a great mentoring experience for both sets of students as well as an enhanced teamwork environment.