Really happy to have received my first position offer. I know art is K-12, but my favorite grade levels are definitely middle school. So I’m happy this new job includes that but it also includes MORE than just 6-8, it has K-5 attached too.

I’m worried my students will be such a wide range of abilities. So many different projects going on at once. Am I in over my head? Or should I just accept this position. Otherwise I was just going to be a kelly sub this next school year. So I guess I’d rather teach art than sub, but still.

Any suggestions, tips? I have to have a winter and spring art show also. Worried about how best to keep track of all these different projects going on. K-8 is such a wide span I feel… or is it not?

It’s my first teaching job since graduating. This offer is decent pay (expected for first-time) and benefits. School is small about 600 students I think. And that’s total throughout all grade levels. So at least it’s a small school.

Hey team, I’ve just released a substantial update to my free Art Assistant web app. The new Colour Study mode simplifies your reference image into paintable colour shapes. It detects and organises its colours, and lets you the isolate colour groups. It also includes adjustable detail levels and improved mobile controls.

I’d love any feedback from painters/teachers.

Launch the app from the link at the bottom of this page.

https://www.scottpaints.com.au/art-app

Hello! I hope you are all well. I’m in a bit of a career rut, and been exploring what may be a more fulfilling move in the next few years. I’ve always been passionate about art, took multiple art/design classes in high school and college, summer camps, extracurriculars, etc, as well as been in educator positions during high school and summers of college. I have a degree in Communications/Media and Marketing and I’m currently working a 9-5 corporate administrative job.
While this job feels stable and decent-paying, I hate sitting at the desk all day, staring at my computer and punching numbers. I’m in my early 20s, and hoping I can make a career change soon.
I enjoy working with children and teens, and was hoping I may be able to apply this towards becoming an art teacher. However, I’m really not sure what my next steps would be. I only have my bachelors degree in Comms/Marketing - Are there programs that I can enroll in while still being employed full-time? It seems a lot of programs are geared towards individuals with a specific bachelors in fine arts. Do I need to fulfill a specific amount of art credits before receiving a certification? What certification(s) are needed?
Any insight on this process would be greatly appreciated, and I would love to hear anyone’s advice regarding the transition from corporate to teaching.
Thank you all in advance!

Hi guys I am currently in my 2nd year of college pursuing a Fine Arts degree. I was curious as to how becoming a teacher would work if I complete all 4 years of my school with just a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. I was considering majoring in Art Education but at the moment, I don't want to commit to education yet and I'd rather focus on my artistic skills and portfolio at the moment. (I want options after I graduate!) I did look online and I found stuff about Alternative Teaching Certificates and that seems like something I would do after I graduate, but I would like some insight from art teachers or people who are on the same journey as I am!

Hello all!

School starts Aug 17th and I am excited for my first year teaching! I have full year lesson plans for all of my grades EXCEPT for 7th grade! I just can't think of ideas they might find fun. Brain empty.

I am on bedrest due to a knee i jury and using the time to finish up all my slides and documents and demos, so right now 7th grade is kinda my priority. Does anyone have anything they do with their 7th graders they'd be willing to share? Just to get the brain juices flowing.

Would appreciate any brainstorming :)

Anyone willing to take a look at what I am going to order and tell me if Im missing anything major? Im prek-8

Hi all! I am thinking about how I want to teach expectations to my middle schoolers this year. This group is highly interested in comics. I was thinking that I could have the students take a day to create short comic strips that demonstrate ways they can follow the expectations or examples of not following expectations.

Example would be: Expectation is being safe. Student draws a three panel comic of someone throwing paper airplanes during class and poking someone in the head with the pointy airplane. Their paper airplane is thrown away and they lose their access to art materials for that day. This was an example of not following expectations!

I feel like I am on the right track, but I want to up the engagement. I assume their examples would be a bit sillier, which is totally fine. However, I thought this would allow them to think more deeply about what is expected of them, and possibly allow them to use their OC in a work of art. Any tips? Thoughts? Am I crazy for thinking this is a good idea? Thanks!

hi yall! I’m currently in community college and majoring in elementary education to transfer to SDSU.

i love art, and have loved working with kids and teens who love art as well (I used to be a behavior tech).

thing is, as much as I love creating art, teaching, giving advice, etc, I know that doing it as a career is usually not the greatest for many, which is why I’m choosing to major in elementary education, but plan to teach art in highschool somewhere down the road, which I know will require more schooling and a single subject cert.

i guess my main questions are:

has any one taken a similar career path? if you had one career prior to teaching art, how did you decide to take the dive? what’s your experience like teaching art vs multi subject, whether it be with the students themselves or with the school system? additionally, what schools did you go to (so that I can better gauge what this path would look like on my end lol)

pay is a concern of course, as with everything in this economy, but if I’m going to go from one underpaid profession to another, might as well enjoy what I do, right ?