Kate’s Art School in South Central Michigan is now accepting proposals for new teachers! But first let’s talk about our free Lesson Guide. 

This guide can be used by all teachers whether you join our team or not. When teaching a lesson, having an objective is key! An objective is easily assessable…either the student showed they reached the objective, or not. Craftsmanship of the objective comes with time and practice. 

Recently, I heard that art is more comparable to a sport because skills are learned and practiced, and not just learned like in the case of academics. 

Personally, I think art teachers often get burnt out trying to come up with projects all the time, when really students can create whatever they want as long as a skill is practiced. For example, I personally don’t care if one of my students draw a bowl of fruit or a portrait if my objective is to apply value by using cross-hatching. 

I recommend focusing on tools and techniques for your objective and integrity for your demonstration. Students often feel alone in their artist experience, and give up. If they don’t know that every artist worries about sections of their art, feels it’s going slow and is dissatisfied during the process, they can feel like they don’t have what it takes, when in actuality, they’re just having a very normal artist experience. 

Why does teaching like this matter? A lot of artists feel they’re no good because their art doesn’t look like what they had in their mind, but they didn’t stand a chance because they never learned the tools and techniques to get them there. 

Click here to see how to use the free lesson guide!

Since 2020, I’ve been the only teacher here at Kate's Art School but I’m ready to share this great responsibility. If you want to join our team, consider writing a lesson plan using our free guide (download here). 

Classes at Kate’s are multiple weeks long and must be about tools and techniques. Write out your first lesson and email it to info@katesartschool.com. If it catches my attention, I’ll ask you to meet with me and we’ll talk about making your single lesson into a series of lessons to teach the visual art of your expertise. This opportunity is paid and is for in-person educational experiences.