The Best Advice I Ever Received as a TeacherContest entries, spring 2006Read the winning entries from Janet Beadle, Steve Feld, Colleen Kilian, Barbara Moran, and Jan Sauls. Steve Feld As an aspiring new Art teacher in New York City, I was required to take the interview portion of the teaching exam. I recall that one of the panelists challenged me with the following question: "If you were an Art Teacher in the classroom and only had a single crayon for supplies, what would you do"? I recall saying something like having the class identify the color of the crayon and then proceed to teach a lesson about color. I passed the exam, but I am certain that when the panelist posed that prophetic question, he never realized that in many of the schools I served in subsequently, had little or no art supplies to support my teaching. The best advice I can give to new reachers is in order to be effective you must be resourceful, creative and make the best use of what you do have - your own ingenuity! |
  
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