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[snowmanmaniacc]

05/31/23

from the beginning...

i don’t have a teaching degree and yet here i am going into my third year of teaching art to elementary students. i graduated out of college with a degree in graphic design and an art minor amid the covid-19 aftermath, and had no career options planned. no one was hiring and i was writing cover letters and sending resumes every day, until i saw a posting for an itinerant art teacher.

if you are my age... you probably have no idea what an itinerant teacher is. basically, it is when you teach at a bunch of different schools to compensate for large grade levels that can’t see their normal specials teachers once a week.

anyways, i went for the job and three years later i am leaving my itinerant position to become a full time art teacher. i can’t say anyone (let alone myself) saw me becoming an art teacher. i love art, but i saw myself in some urban office setting with people my age, working over a computer screen and making deadlines for different company’s graphic design needs. think of 2012 buzzfeed, that was the dream.

now, i actually can’t imagine working with just adults. kids say the craziest shit and do it with a straight face... they sneeze on you, they tell you their honest opinion on everything (your appearance is not spared), and they can look you in the eye while picking your nose. but, they also give me purpose, and tell you that you are the best artist they have ever seen, giving me the confidence and drive to create the best lesson plans for them. i do it for them.

so, if you are a teacher, or you want lesson ideas for your elementary school pals then keep reading. tomorrow we go to our last day of the program that gives me my teaching degree for free !

-snowmanmaniac

[snowmanmaniacc]

The Snowman (1982)