Give yourself advice for the first day of classes teaching adolescents.
I would pass around paper for the students to write their names down and once done have them introduce themselves and name one hobby they like to do. I need to own the classroom the best I can when I begin. People say you become a quasi rockstar status because the art teacher is expected to be the most fun and an escape for students from their other courses. I'll have to play nice with other faculty members and play the game. I should only assume that all schools have this inter turmoil politics going on. I will have to learn how to say "no" sometimes to these adolescents. I may feel under appreciated with adolescents but I should know that it's them I am trying to teach. I have to stay on top of everyone else schedules probably such as gym assembly's, pep rally's, or standard testing If I teach in a high school. I may be the only male art teacher on the hall and it may be wise to stay out of gossip.
Projects will flop as a first year teacher or beyond. I should complete a contour exercise that was given to me just recently to work the rust off my students. This exercise will involve flipping an image upside down and so the students just draw the lines they see and not group the image to what they want to see such as eyes, arms, etc. Blind drawing wouldn't be a bad thing. I should practice a daily routine of how students enter, clean-up, and valuable work time. I need to figure out a clean classroom set up. I bet I'll eat my lunch period really quickly and hardly sit down most of the day. Hopefully one when I teach I know that I am different from the others. Art teachers are a bit off, atleast I feel quirky and off. I think I need to embrace that and be myself whether that's the typical stereotype people expect of an art teacher to say or become, if that is what works and this behavior lets me get away with certain things then I'll be that male teacher off the beaten path.
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