"What brought me to teaching? How do I see myself in the work I do? What are my blind spots?"
I want to specialize in art education. The reason for that is because of my high school art teacher. She influence me to become a teacher. The main reason I chose to pursue to become an art teacher is because when I was going up, into my high school year I had a hard time expressing myself. So I bottled it up inside, which is very unhealthy for my well-being. I want to show the kids that art can help you release you of stress, anger, sadness, and many more feelings that you bottle up inside. I know this is cliche but I want the kids to make a different in their community, I want the kid's art to make people feel uncomfortable, to make feel many different emotions through the arts.
I can see myself inspiring the youth and the youth inspiring me to be the best artist we could be. Also to help our community grow, to help the kid's grow as artistes. Also to teach these kid's the roots of the arts, to show them the original message was and how they can create and use art as a medium for change.
I'm not going to lie, I am very emotional. I feel like my weakness is being to passionate to a point where I will go easy on the kids and they might take advantage of me because I'm to nice.
Lovely. I agree! You are carving out a space in education where kids can really take the time to work through and on their identity. Kids crave these spaces!
ReplyDeleteEmotion is tricky. I think in this culture we are taught that it is a "weakness." However, I think it is about how you understand and express that to your students. Teachers serve as role models and how you choose to appropriately share emotion can help kids to figure out their own expression--even outside of the art.
Thanks for sharing!