Carole has teaching experience in the primary education sector (where she taught Years 2-4) and currently lectures in primary pre-service teacher education courses, having joined the campus in 1995. Carole also teaches within the University’s postgraduate courses and covers all media, including painting, printmaking, two and three dimensional work including ceramics. Although Carole’s interests in the visual arts are wide, her special interests might be seen as three dimensional work - ceramics in particular.

In 2004 Carole was an invited guest of the Rye Presbyterian Nursery School, and the Clay Art Center Port Chester, New York. There she delivered workshops covering visual arts media, including ceramics, and teaching approaches to groups of generalist and specialist art teachers.

Carole was a co-founder of the Auckland Primary Arts Association in 1995 and was the Chairperson for its first four years. She is a member of ANZAAE (Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators).

Research and creative outputs

Carole co-authored the primary visual arts teachers’ handbook, Painting My Teacher Blue, as well as other readers covering visual arts processes.

Carole is interested in how teachers and pre-service teachers can best be supported to have the confidence to teach the Visual Arts. Her other current interests are in:

• identifying how the Key Competencies can be taught through the Visual Arts, and,
• how the Visual Arts can be integrated or used as a focus while including other curriculum areas.