Using ATLAS to Enhance Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Teaching Structures

Webinar Slides

This Lunch & Learn features Cam McComb, Ph.D., an associate professor at Eastern Michigan University who uses  ATLAS (Accomplished Teaching, Learning, and Schools®) to help her candidates identify and analyze teaching structures in a three-part strategy. ATLAS is a video library providing cases and analysis tools of accomplished teaching practices indexed to common teaching and learning frameworks across various classroom settings. Observations with ATLAS are made even more valuable because they include insights into behind-the-scenes instructional decision-making from board-certified educators. AACTE Members receive 20% off ATLAS subscriptions before the end of 2023. Join us to learn more about ATLAS and how educator preparation faculty like McComb are using the tool to improve pre-service training

Speaker:

Cam McComb,
Associate Professor
Eastern Michigan University
Cam McComb is associate professor of visual art education at Eastern Michigan University where she co-leads the art teacher certification program. She holds degrees in art education from The Ohio State University, Miami University, and the Pennsylvania State University, where she earned a Doctor of Philosophy for researching pre-adolescents and their ability to document artistic thinking. McComb spent 25 years teaching art in K-12 public schools before beginning her work with preservice teachers. She is a National Board-certified teacher, a mixed media artist, a published writer and scholar, an arts advocate, and a 2018 graduate of the National Art Education Association School for Art Leaders. She is the higher education division chair of the Michigan Art Education Association with research interests focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning, assessment, and concept-based curriculum design. This year the National Art Education Association recognized McComb as a leader in higher education for the western region of the United States and at this year’s conference they named her the 2023 National Art Educator. McComb believes in the democratization of art making: a creative practice open to everyone at any time. She is currently releasing a six-segment podcast/video series titled, Engaging Process: Where Art Education and Art Making Meet.