What it's all about.

Who ever said that being a teacher was easy. You certainly are not in it for the money and great benefits. So why do we teach? One word...Passion. To teach a child and watch them grow is a magical thing. Why magic? Let's say that you were teaching a lesson and the kids were all in tune but one. So you break down the lesson for the student, even if you have to stand on a table and yell like a fool, you have to be willing to think outside the box and find that way to reach that child. Where is the magic you ask? It is when you are least expecting it, the student looks up with a twinkle in his/her eye and begin to fidget in their seat and "BAM" there is the magic. They understand and begin to excited and want to learn more and more.

Teaching is not for everyone, and for those who do battle in the trenches of education we need to embrace what is out there. Students are surpassing us in technology and making our jobs harder. This course I have gone through is not art education related, but I made it related. It scared me at first, but I have learned so much and gained the confidence and a new look on how I teach and my students are already seeing a change.

Art educators are a rare breed and to embrace such drastic change and utilize it will ensure that DBAE teaching will be more efficient and strengthen as we move parallel with technology through the years.

"Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which would otherwise have remained unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists . . . . And many centuries after their core, whether we call it Rembrandt or Vermeer, is extinguished, they continue to send us their special rays."

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French writer.