Art Teacher's Blog

It was actually kind of hard to find an art teacher's blog. There were a lot of blogs about art and art news, but hardly any (that I could sucessfully find) were by an art teacher with information on their blog that would be a useful resource for actually teaching art.

One of the blogs that I did like was The Crafty Teacher: http://craftyteacher.blogspot.com/. The blog owner, Chris, doesn't provide any information about which she is, but from the posts it does sound like she is an actual art teacher, I just don't know for which grades. Chris posts a lot of art projects and educational demonstrations for other art teachers out there. She lists a variety of projects meant for different grade levels and supply lists and directions are included for these projects. Also on this blog are useful tips for teachers, like how to make reusable frames to display your students' artwork, how to make your classroom green, and a link to a teacher's first week survival guide (I thought this was a really useful article for all teachers to prepare for going back to school). This is a resource that I would definitely use because Chris provides teachers tips for their classrooms and for art projects to do with students.

I was also looking for another blog of an art teacher who actually talked about their experiences in the classroom. I sort of found one, it was a comment in The Crafty Teacher's blog and the person commented that she, Cecelia Conitz, is a retired art teacher (and an artist). So I decided to check out her blog- http://cecelia-throughmyeyes.blogspot.com/, which is focuses on her artwork, memories, and experiences. The most recent post was actually one about an art technique- expressionism- and how she taught this through situations, like the flu season, to get the students to express themselves in art. So, Cecelia described one of the lessons she did previously- flu through art in order to express themselves and get them past feeling bad and ill. I thought this was a great idea to use if I ever needed to motivate my students to get through different situations. There were also a few different project ideas and directions on different drawing techniques. All which will be helpful in the future if I need ideas and directions for projects. Unfortunately, a lot of the blogs were of Cecelia's own artworks and corresponding stories, which were nice, but not really a resource to teaching. So I really had to go through the posts for projects and teaching tips within the stories.