Robert Coad
Art History
Robert Coad has AP* and Honors Art History at Hamilton High School’s Humanities Magnet in Los Angeles Unified School District for the past 13 years, as well as design, drawing and Humanities courses. He presently teaches four classes of AP* Art History.
Over the last eight years, Robert has been a frequent presenter of Saturday AP* Art History Workshops for the College Board Western Region and Canada, as well as a panelist at Western Region Academic Conferences in Seattle and Anaheim. He presented a workshop (“Teaching Writing about Art”) at the 3rd Annual AP* National Conference in Orlando (2004) and presented one-day Art History Workshops and Consultant Training Workshops at AP* National Conferences (Chicago and Los Angeles). He has been a Reader for the AP* Art History examination and has written questions for both Praxis and AP* Art History examinations. He is presently a National Leader Consultant for the College Board. He has also presented two on-line events on teaching context a part of the AP* Art History curriculum for AP* Central.
In honor of 50 years of AP*, Robert was recently honored as a distinguished AP* Teacher in his subject area in the Western Region.
Robert is a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship recipient (2001) and received a Humanities Teacher Leadership program award from the NEH in 2002-2003. Robert has National Board Certification in Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood Art and has served on the Excellence Awards Advisory Committee for the Los Angeles Educational Partnership Excellence Awards for Teaching. He is Mentor teacher for LAUSD at his school site.
What Participants Say...
Robert Coad is a brilliant yet modest instructor. I found the materials he provided and presentations he gave to be of the highest quality. I plan to use as many of the strategies he presented as possible. This is the second time that I have attended Dr. Coad’s workshop and it will not be my last.
Please sign me up for all courses offered with Dr. Coad! I truly feel so much more confident and capable teaching Art History because of him. Well done!
