I am in TX and the route I chose is to get a Bachelors of Fine Arts with a teaching certification. My program is primarily art classes, art education classes, and classes to prepare for state certification exams. Your best bet would be to look online at the degrees at your local 4 year universities and then speak to an advisor to see if they can list out the steps before even applying to the college just to give you an idea. Also look for art education requirements for your state because some may vary what kind of Bachelors degree you need with the teaching certification, it really does vary. When I first started researching I searched “how to become an art teacher in Texas” and that helped a lot as a starting point.

@@kassandrazuniga4694 thank you!!!!!

There are specific art education degrees at many colleges. Or even any general education degrees and then take art classes to gain knowledge to be certified in teaching and art. There's quite a few alternate ways to get into it too, but my knowledge is in obtaining an art ed degree, especially if you want to get hired and paid as a certified teacher. I get paid substantially more than art teachers who don't have their full credentials. Follow some facebook groups for art teachers. Do some more research and you'll find the options are out there.

thanks for watching! Every day is so different too. I like seeing other people's classroom happenings a lot too.

you're welcome! I feel like every art teacher's day is different depending on school and student and I'm always looking for examples, so I figured I'd make one myself to be helpful.

I found it from my clay store that it's sheep dog fiber clay, which it very good for sculpture. Not great for slipping, scoring, and smoothing as we found out. But it stays really durable even if it's not fired, but when fired the fibers burn out and it's like regular ceramics.

If it's the blue drying racks you're talking about, I believe I ordered them from lakeshore learning.

A little bit of everywhere. Sometimes I find lessons online, sometimes I modify things I find, and sometimes I make it up myself. I do make up the curriculum myself though and then slot lessons in.

That is a question I might not be qualified to answer. I know the US needs more teachers and I believe some programs that bring in people from other countries, but I'm unsure of the details.

I didn't have art when I was in elementary. We had a pretty solid music program though. My teachers were really great about including art, especially my 5th grade teacher. Mrs. Askew... she was so creative.

yeah! I went to my local clay store and found out it's sheepdog fiber clay. It's great for just airdrying and is very sturdy when bone dry. Fibers burn out in the kiln, but it's good just dried too. It's a little harder to work with and blend though.

yup! I asked my local clay store. Great for sculpture. Terrible for trying to score, slip, and smooth.