Demonstration of Professional Accomplishment
The e-Portfolio tells the story of your learning journey to reach Maine’s standards. Beyond meeting those standards, you have also developed the ability to become an artist-educator. Part of your program completion is to create a professional website. There are many free sites at your disposal. Review some of last year’s websites to gain a sense of what is possible. After designing an engaging splash page, some helpful tabs to include are: your resume, teaching philosophy, examples of personal artwork, student lesson plans, student work samples, and examples of community-based engagement.
During the spring exam week you will have the opportunity to address MAT faculty and the Director of Artists at Work to present your professional website. You will participate in a presentation , along with a question and answer period that will take no longer than 20 minutes. Once you are finished, the panel will deliberate for another ten minutes to determine, based upon the evidence you have presented, whether you have demonstrated the MAT Program Outcomes.
After all of the requirements have been met, you will be ready to embark on the next step toward an exciting career as an artist-educator. Please remember that the MAT Program recommends you for State certification, but the responsibility to apply is yours and our recommendation is only one of several criteria that Maine uses to determine your eligibility.