What happens? Whether or not the partnership limps along on its dysfunctional path, barely making any progress or partners start pulling out of the program fed up with the perceived impossibility of their colleagues, everybody loses.
The following is a worst-case scenario: The afterschool arts program ceases to exist at a particular school in a particular [...]
Archive for February, 2009
When a Partnership turns Sour…
Posted in artist practice, it could be worse, observation, teaching artist, tagged artist practice, everybody loses, partnership, sour, teaching artist, what is lost on 27 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Teaching Art [has what effect on] Making Art?
Posted in artist practice, observation, teaching artist, tagged TARP, teaching artist, teaching artist survey on 12 February 2009 | 1 Comment »
What effect do you feel work as a teaching artist has had on your art making?
I don’t know the answer to this question.
I took a Teaching Artist Survey (TARP) on Monday from the University of Chicago’s Survey Lab and I was surprised to note how it opened my eyes to looking at my teaching artistry [...]
Teachers: Gripes and Thanks.
Posted in it could be worse, observation, teaching artist, tagged gripes, teachers, thanks on 10 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every so often, I am in partnership with a classroom teacher with whom, for whatever reason, collaboration is difficult, if not excruciating. Silly things like ego, territorialism, and lack of flexibility tend to make a promising collaboration something just short of a nightmare because not only must I manage a classroom full of kids, but [...]
