What inspired you to become an art teacher?

What inspired my cooperation teacher to become an art teacher? I learned that drawing was something that he always did as a child. This was something that was passed down by his mother, who he actually learned later in life also had gone to school to become an art teacher.  So art was something that he always truly enjoyed. The event that actually made him want to become an art teacher though was when he took over some swimming lessons at his job at the Y.M.C.A. His students ended up doing really well and his boss told him that he has a thing for teaching. This moment really sparked his interest for him.

Listening to his story about what made him want to become an art teacher made me realize that I have similar reasons of my own. I have always known since I was young that I wanted to do something in art.  I just never really knew what exactly. People told me along the way that I would make a great teacher because I have a tremendous amount of patience and I tend to be good at people but at that time I wasn’t ready to follow in my mothers footsteps of teaching. I wanted to do my own thing. It wasn’t until my freshmen year of college that I volunteered at Give kids the world in Florida.  This was an organization like the make a wish foundation that allowed families from all over the world to come that had children with life threatening diseases. It was in that week that I realized I loved working with kids. So, why not take the two things that I find myself passionate and make a career out of it. That is when I decided to become and art educator. Since switching my majors I have never felt more like I am stepping in the right direction everyday.