A Day as an Elementary Art Teacher
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- What does an elementary art teacher do all day? Lots of things! Every day is different and that's why it's so great. Of course there's teaching, then there's preparing for teaching, then there's recess, then displaying artwork, and sometimes cookies!
I found out it's FIBER CLAY, which is AMAZING! It is kiln-fireable clay, but if you don't have a kiln, it is a clay that will be so solid and sturdy when air dried especially with sculpture. I buy clay from our local distributor NM Clay, here's the description/link nmclay.com/she...
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If you're new here - welcome! I am an artist and art teacher based in New Mexico. I have a BFA in animation and art education. I taught art in the K-12 setting for eight years. Now I create pottery and art in my cozy backyard studio.
The closet space is so accurate!!! love it. Thank you for sharing.
Love this!!! I'm currently studying to be an art teacher. Love the joy in this video :)
I didn’t realise how much work goes into being an art teacher 😂 tq for the video
I have homeschooled my children for 18 years and am done now! Back in the late 90s, I was halfway through getting my bachelor of fine arts degree, then got married and raised four incredible children! I am now considering going back to school to become an elementary art teacher. I was very excited but began to have huge doubts, due to all the teachers’ videos saying how bad the kids are, how hard it is to work with parents, and how stressful a job it is. I couldn’t find anyone showing that it is good and worth it. Thank you for your video! Very uplifting! Do you recommend being an elementary art teacher, after having been in the trade? Thank you so much and God bless you!!
Oh my goodness, I love that ladder display!
Thank you so much for this! I'm so excited to be an art teacher eventually, and looking for inspiration tonight, I found your video. You make it look so fun!
thanks for watching! Every day is so different too. I like seeing other people's classroom happenings a lot too.
I really want to become an elementary school art teacher in USA/Canada but man I have no idea where to even start. I don’t know what I would go to school for or what the path is on how to start. I have the best memories in art class as a little kid
I am in TX and the route I chose is to get a Bachelors of Fine Arts with a teaching certification. My program is primarily art classes, art education classes, and classes to prepare for state certification exams.
Your best bet would be to look online at the degrees at your local 4 year universities and then speak to an advisor to see if they can list out the steps before even applying to the college just to give you an idea. Also look for art education requirements for your state because some may vary what kind of Bachelors degree you need with the teaching certification, it really does vary. When I first started researching I searched “how to become an art teacher in Texas” and that helped a lot as a starting point.
@@kassandrazuniga4694 thank you!!!!!
There are specific art education degrees at many colleges. Or even any general education degrees and then take art classes to gain knowledge to be certified in teaching and art. There's quite a few alternate ways to get into it too, but my knowledge is in obtaining an art ed degree, especially if you want to get hired and paid as a certified teacher. I get paid substantially more than art teachers who don't have their full credentials. Follow some facebook groups for art teachers. Do some more research and you'll find the options are out there.
In my art room, I give each student a piece of burlap to work on so that the clay doesn't stick to the table. If the clay was perviously used by students, the fibers may be from the burlap they used to work the clay on. 🤷♀
I found it from my clay store that it's sheep dog fiber clay, which it very good for sculpture. Not great for slipping, scoring, and smoothing as we found out. But it stays really durable even if it's not fired, but when fired the fibers burn out and it's like regular ceramics.
I had air dry clay and it would have fibers in it after the initial open as well. The projects still turned out fine
The Mini Museum is so cute
@@blueblousedesigns I sadly left it in my school, which probably went to the dumpster, but it’s super easy to make again with any Amazon box and white paint. I do have the artwork postcards though! That’s the important part.
@@alishahagenart I was thinking about buying some of those mini easels and the little stretched canvases that fit on the mini easel and doing some of my color field paintings on them and putting some of those dolls that came in my kids meals when I was a kid for the people looking at the art
Wow Beautiful Art teaching kids at Elementary schools
Well done
Hi!! New to your channel, I am in my first year of teaching elementary school art and am looking forward to watching your videos and learning lots along the way! I also do recess at my school heheh. I noticed you have great drying racks! Do you know where you got them? I am looking for some myself! Thanks! Roxanne ☺️
If it's the blue drying racks you're talking about, I believe I ordered them from lakeshore learning.
I miss it there already
Hey this was so cute! Just found your channel bc I'm also a teacher and I love making UA-cam videos, but during the school year it's hard to make art and videos and keep up with school, so I was looking for teacher yt inspo 😊 I have a question: did you talk to your admin at all before starting a yt channel? I'm not sure if it's like an issue and tbh I don't even know who I would ask 😂
@@shannanapeels I did not talk to my admin. It was fine though. I did use my personal UA-cam because when I left I still have it. Don’t use your school email or it will go away with your email address.
@@alishahagenart thank you so much! I appreciate you taking the time to answer :)
Hi Alisha I'm an art teacher from India. I want to get an art teacher job in USA. Right now I've many online students from different places of USA..
Please suggest me how can I apply there?
That is a question I might not be qualified to answer. I know the US needs more teachers and I believe some programs that bring in people from other countries, but I'm unsure of the details.
Do you create the projects, or do you take them from the textbook? Thanks for the video. I'm thinking of going back to school and becoming an art teacher, which complements my fashion design background.
A little bit of everywhere. Sometimes I find lessons online, sometimes I modify things I find, and sometimes I make it up myself. I do make up the curriculum myself though and then slot lessons in.
Where are you teaching at? Did you find out the fibers are okay or not
yeah! I went to my local clay store and found out it's sheepdog fiber clay. It's great for just airdrying and is very sturdy when bone dry. Fibers burn out in the kiln, but it's good just dried too. It's a little harder to work with and blend though.
At my school they don’t have art class
I didn't have art when I was in elementary. We had a pretty solid music program though. My teachers were really great about including art, especially my 5th grade teacher. Mrs. Askew... she was so creative.
Can I be your mentee?
The fibers look like you have paperclay; it will burn off.
yup! I asked my local clay store. Great for sculpture. Terrible for trying to score, slip, and smooth.