Blog #24 Final

Re-read your advice to yourself (blog #1). In this blog continue your advice, add some things that you’ve learned through your practicum, class discussions, interaction with your peers, or anything else that you’ve learned or investigated over the course of the semester since that first blog.

My responsibilities as a teacher will be stern. I finished young artist workshop and I now know how some kids test me. When my back is turned or when they are dropped off my mom and dad for someone to baby sit their child. My responsibilities needs to instill classroom rules for two weeks or longer. The student's needs cannot always be met as how I discovered again in YAW. The student is just being lazy or scared to take risks. I need to make the student take risks on their projects and If an item isn't available the student needs to understand their current need cannot be acquired and need to learn to improvise. The student may need a role model and I try and give the kids that.
Buying into the individual is something I learned with my practicum. The teacher gave the students respect and they gave it back. He was dry and to the point on suggestions of what to change or not change. He was not afraid say what an art piece looks like. Now I don't know if its because he taught AP and he can be more honest without hurt feelings or what, but.

Biggest take away from the course teacher was standards,real world issues, and loving yourself. She says you can't be a successful teacher if you yourself isn't happy or stressed. This shows to the students and then the class environment has a stink in the air. I did not interact much with my peers but I'd listened. I was more interested in hearing the teacher over my peers.

i cannot put into writing everything that I learned but I will say this. I got a long road ahead of me to becoming ready on Day 1 of teaching. I need to collect books, work on speaking and writing skills. Do the required busy work steps to getting my degree... Praxis...courses...fees...

I need to have a bang up interview and when I have my classroom I need to own it.
If that means my background phone and computer screen has some useless quote or some reminder every morning before the first class. I'm tall, I need to project my voice and become the adult in the room.