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Bloom Art Teacher to Speak at Conferences in New York and Pennsylvania
She adopted a new curriculum involving art history, and now Deborah Filbin is being rewarded for her efforts.
After winning a prestigious award in 2011, a art teacher will get to speak about her accomplishments in New York tonight.
Deborah Filbin, who has taught at Bloom for 13 years, was awarded the 2011 Minx M. Auerbach Award for Excellence in Teaching. She will receive the award during a special reception at the Brooklyn Museum in New York July 12.
Filbin is receiving the award after teaching her students about art history through Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party," a large, triangular work of art completed in 1979.
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The students at Bloom responded well to Filbin's efforts.
"I worked with one class specifically and pretty much told them, ‘I’m teaching something brand new. Are you willing to try it out with me and give me feedback?'" Filbin said. "They were 100 percent on board, and the students were great because they did give me that constant feedback. After every lesson they kept asking for more."
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Filbin will be speaking about her experience at the The Dinner Party Institute training program at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, as well as at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, NY.
Bloom Supt. Lenell Navarre said he has congratulated Filbin for her accomplishments.
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