About Me
2012 • End-of-Year Picnic
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My name is Jay Wing, and I will be the Temporary Teacher for the Digital Photography and Computer Graphic Design classes, filling in for Mrs. Lavine for the duration of the 2015 school year, in room 870 at Mission Hills High School, in San Marcos, California.
Sometimes students ask me what I looked like in high school, so I thought It'd be fun to add a photo from the beginning of my senior year at Desert High School (Edwards Air Force Base, in the Mojave Desert) from September 1976. (Yeah, I know, nice "mutton chops.") |
Senior Year • Sept. 1976
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Who am I, and what qualifies me to teach these courses? After twenty years in the Graphics industry, I returned to school in 2003 and began working towards a Single-Subject Teaching Credential in Fine Art & a Masters in Education. I completed all my in-class work in the fall of 2005, needing only my student teaching to complete my mid-life educational pursuit. This was interrupted in September of 2005 by a job offer to become a Project Manager and Graphic Designer for one of the largest Public Relations firms in San Diego. So I took a three-year break from study, until October 2008 when the economy took a nose dive, and I was one of three full-time employees to get laid-off. I returned to school in January 2009 to perform my student teaching and earn both the Credential and Masters from National University in September of that year.
After a year of substitute teaching in the Poway School district I accepted a full-time teaching position at Kearny High School's Science, Connections & Technology Academy. I taught Digital Art & Mixed Media, Visual Art & Design and Design in Mixed Media for three years before changes to the administration led to my classes being dissolved.
Returning to the substitute pool, I've worked in the San Diego School District until January 2015, where I became employed as a long-term sub at Mission Hills High School. I interviewed and was hired for the temporary position to complete the rest of the 2014-2015 school year at Mission Hills.
In addition to my Single-Subject Teaching Credential, I've taken the courseware for, and earned what's called a "Designated Credential," through the offices of the Career, College & Technical Education in San Diego. And I am currently taking a course to become a Certified Online Teacher through a program called, "Leading Edge Certification," which will qualify me to teach online and "blended learning" classes (which is a combination of teaching in-class and online.).
The main website I created for these experiences is CaptivArting.com, where you can view projects, student work and other frivolity. Speaking of frivolity, I also created a (ns)FAQ page on this site, responding to students' (not so) Frequently Asked Questions, as well as a page called, "W.O.T.D.," (Word of the Day) to engage students in another activity I love: creating neologisms. And, to continuing to model the peculiarities of website content, added a new page on February 26th, called, "Idiocrasies," (which, by the way, isn't what you might think.)
After a year of substitute teaching in the Poway School district I accepted a full-time teaching position at Kearny High School's Science, Connections & Technology Academy. I taught Digital Art & Mixed Media, Visual Art & Design and Design in Mixed Media for three years before changes to the administration led to my classes being dissolved.
Returning to the substitute pool, I've worked in the San Diego School District until January 2015, where I became employed as a long-term sub at Mission Hills High School. I interviewed and was hired for the temporary position to complete the rest of the 2014-2015 school year at Mission Hills.
In addition to my Single-Subject Teaching Credential, I've taken the courseware for, and earned what's called a "Designated Credential," through the offices of the Career, College & Technical Education in San Diego. And I am currently taking a course to become a Certified Online Teacher through a program called, "Leading Edge Certification," which will qualify me to teach online and "blended learning" classes (which is a combination of teaching in-class and online.).
The main website I created for these experiences is CaptivArting.com, where you can view projects, student work and other frivolity. Speaking of frivolity, I also created a (ns)FAQ page on this site, responding to students' (not so) Frequently Asked Questions, as well as a page called, "W.O.T.D.," (Word of the Day) to engage students in another activity I love: creating neologisms. And, to continuing to model the peculiarities of website content, added a new page on February 26th, called, "Idiocrasies," (which, by the way, isn't what you might think.)