What unique challenges and rewards come from working as an art teacher?
One of the most unique challenges about being an art teacher is working with 150 personality types a day, most of whom have never taken any art at all in grammar school. You really have to adapt your curriculum to meet a variety of different skill levels. Another unique challenge about being an art teacher is developing a rubric, or a method for judging art – which project gets an A who gets a D – that sort of thing. You really have to decide what you’re looking for. For me it’s all about effort (and some ability) and how a student uses the time spent in my class. For many students, independent work time is just not structured enough.
