The most daunting thing about finishing student teaching is the stress associated with finding a job where I want to live. I really am looking forward to getting a job as a teacher and moving forward with my life, but I am not confident that I will be able to find what I want in the area that my family and I want to live in. However, if I had to sub for a while, I think I could live with that.
When I was in school, throughout high school and college, I had several different art teachers. I can't remember the last semester that I didn't have an art class of some sort. Some of those teachers have been very good, while others were less effective or just plain lazy. The teachers that were good made me excited to be in school and learn. They were inspirational, enthusiastic, and unfortunately, they were outnumbered. They were outnumbered by teachers that gave us due dates and cookie cutter projects. I want to teach so I can help out with the imbalance that I experienced as a student and to create passion for the arts in my students.
Luckily, the student teaching experience hasn't caused a great wardrobe change. I owned most of the clothes that I will need in order to dress to impress and look professional. The big change that really occurred, was a shift in what I wore on a daily basis. Before student teaching I was spending most of my days sculpting in a ceramics studio. It was a dusty, messy business, working with power tools and glorified mud. I went from looking similar to a construction worker some days to looking professional and it's been a very nice change of pace!
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