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Carolynn (Ce) Helton
I have taught art in many forms for going on 30 years. Currently at Eleanor Roosevelt Photo/Yearbook, Art Explorations, Video/Media, Leadership and Mixed Media Arts.  Previously Art Concepts, Adv Media, Yearbook, Photography and Adv Art at SCCA.  Before moving out to Three Rivers I taught Photography 1, and Adv Photo at Hilltop High School, before that Yearbook, Online Newspaper, Multimedia and Video at Lincoln High.  I also taught for Wine and Canvas for a couple years from 2011-2013  www.wineandcanvas.com acrylic painting. Before that, Digital Photography, Computer Art, Yearbook and Beginning Art through Poway and Sweetwater School District as well as CCTE/R.O.P. (which led me to pursue my single subjects in Art (high school credential) for a year before, I did my student teaching at Coronado High School in Beginning Art and Digital Photography.  My career started in Adult School and afterschool small group classes to Elementary, Middle and High School students.  I eventually got CTE credentials as well to teach ROP/CTE in the High Schools.  I loved it and went  back to school to get my Masters in Cross Cultural Education and get my Single Subjects Credential.

I also worked at the Chula Vista Nature Center and develped the curriculum for the summer program as well as taught it for kids 5 yrs to tweens.
 
I started out and ended up teaching around 14 years through Sweetwater Adult School which overlapped into ROP/CTE as well as private and semi-private lessons (Drawing, acrylics, oils, genesis, watercolors, pastels, and mixed media.) and computer art and design for over five years through UCSD’s DAC (http://dac.ucsd.edu/faq.htm Digital Art Center) and Extension, Sweetwater Adult School (Photoshop, Illustration on the computer, Web Design, Graphic Design, Flash Animation, Visual Communications, Web Optimization, Interface Design, Digital Design Essential A and Dreamweaver) and have a thorough knowledge of Fine Art, Computer Arts and Design/Web Design as well as Photography. I have taught to a wide audience of students from 7 to 90 years old and just about every ethnic background possible. I can understand and speak some Spanish.
 
Not only have I been an Instructor for about 30 years, but have also worked in the corporate world during the dot com rise and fall and survived working in it after the dot com crash for 6 years as a Web Designer, Design Lead and Creative Director. I have been a Lead Designer and Creative Director for several companies and have an understanding of what employers wish to see in students coming out of school. I have started and run my own company in photography with an emphases in Wedding and Event photography as well as Portraits, with more of a photojournalistic approach to events. My understanding of both traditional Art, Photography and computer Design gives me an upper hand as well.  During my corporate journey, I also taught at UCSD.
 
My qualifications and goals have prepared me to teach in the diverse academic, social, economic, cultural, ideological and ethnic environment represented in many schools today. I have been teaching in environments for younger kids, the adult school and at UCSD and high school, all of which have an extremely diverse population on the ethnic, ideological and social level. They are opposites on the economic and academic level in some cases and I have been exposed and taught successfully in all of the above situations. I feel it is important as a teacher to understand teaching in diverse populations.
 
Many of my projects are based in online interactive lessons that can be used as presentations as well as resources for both students and parents to see what is involved in the work required by the students. See example of the Elements of Art and Principles of Design I have been working on. I am also developing one for Drawing and am switching Powerpoitns for Photography over to one as well to flash presentations that download faster on the web. My passion during my BA was in Educational Technology and was half way through my Masters in it when I switched to Cross Cultural Education to be in the classroom. I have always been torn between the two. A class I often taught at UCSD DAC was “Thinking Outside the Box,” with samples of student work here .

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