Teacher Life This year marks my first time working as a FULL time Art Teacher. I have always believed teaching to be rigorous, but not to the point where all I have time for at the end of the day is laundry, dinner, and maybe sleep. (Maybe) As a Teacher, particularly an Art Teacher, you are firing on all cylinders - constantly. You are asking yourself, "What should I teach?" "How should I teach it?" "What connections can I make?" "What strategies can I include?" In this particular job, you are a writer, manager, coordinator, designer, and art specialist. It's as if you have your own studio practice, but it has now extended to over 488 students. If I could give myself attention 488 times out of the week, I would be the most productive, efficient artist of all time. I'd be Picasso. Pablo Picasso in his Cannes studio, 1956. Photograph: Arnold Newman/Getty Images My point is this: as a Teacher, much of your energy is spent setting your stude...
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