Karin L Fenn
Salt Lake City,UT
Summary
Passionate educator and collaborator integrates arts, place based learning, and community engagement to enhance historical empathy and understand historic causality.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Humanities Teacher
Salt Lake Arts Academy
08.2021 - Current
- Design differentiated instruction to improve students' analysis of primary sources, increasing students' synthesis of historic causality.
- Create assessment menus, to support multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression.
- Organize place based learning through field trips, which deepen students' historical empathy.
- Support growth mindset through a classroom culture of inclusion, respect, and collaboration by employing consistent expectations, and flexibility.
Dance Teacher
Salt Lake Arts Academy
08.2009 - 06.2021
- Created community connections by attending performances, workshops, and hosting artist residencies each year.
- Created standards based curriculum that integrated diverse cultural and thematic material, culminating in two student concerts, for 100 or more students.
- Collaborated with students to create works presented at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, winning Third Place in September 2019.
Humanities Teacher
Afono Elementary And South Pacific Academy
08.1992 - 06.1996
- Taught English and Social Studies to 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.
- Created a journal of student writing to showcase student progress throughout the year.
- Coached the Third Place Winner in the island Geography Bee.
Education
Teaching Certification - History Teacher Education
05.2021
- Honoree National Honor Society
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) - Dance
- President's list
- ArtsBridge Scholarship Recipient
- Graduate Teaching Assistantship Recipient
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) - Dance
Skills
- Video/Sound Editing
- Google Suite for Education
- Grant Writing
- Working French and Spanish
- Curriculum Development
- Online Learning Platforms
Certification
- Professional Teaching License
- History Endorsement
- Dance Endorsement
Timeline
Humanities Teacher - Salt Lake Arts Academy
08.2021 - Current
Dance Teacher - Salt Lake Arts Academy
08.2009 - 06.2021
Humanities Teacher - Afono Elementary And South Pacific Academy
08.1992 - 06.1996
Southern Utah University - Teaching Certification, History Teacher Education
University of Utah - Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Dance
University of Utah - Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Dance