Last Saturday I attended a Contemporary Art Start teacher workshop at the MOCA and during this workshop I realized how much I wanted to be teaching a truly innovative curriculum that fostered self-actualization and creativity.
Teaching is challenging! So much more challenging than I ever imagined before I started and I never thought the job was easy. I remember when I first decided to become a teacher I thought "Eh, I'll teach for five years or so. That's enough time to figure everything out," and here I am six years later feeling like I'm just beginning to understand. I certainly grasped the cognitive aspects early on, but it is the human factors, the motivation factors, the emotional factors and the significance factors that continue to be a challenge to me.
Creation is what gives one hope, purpose and the reason to be. It is like the rainbow that shone over Los Angeles not so many weeks ago. Rainbows are campy icons, but there was no denying the awe inspiring beauty of the psychedelic arc on that day. It made one believe that there was something more out there. There was something better was coming.
I went into teaching with the dream of cultivating a value for critical thinking, creativity, and social activism. My values have stayed the same, but my ability to actualize this, I feel is just barely blossoming. Right now I want to push myself to the next level in teaching and I feel that by documenting my professional development and personal growth in this blog, I will create a narrative of my growth that will help me make this process meaningful and fulfilling.
Also I hope to connect with others that are also interested in these topics so that through their questions and responses my understandings may grow and evolve in more complex ways.
Thank you for all of your questions, feedback and guidance on my quest.
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