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Teaching Artist
The Teaching Artist is a Teacher who uses the creativity often seen in the creation of art into their teaching. Bending the Rules of traditional pedagogy, the Teaching Artist uses a wide variety of techniques over time in order to allow their students to flourish
Values
- Values life long learning
- Thinks outside of the box
- Inspires students through innovative, dynamic, and artistic teaching methods.
Challenges
- often beyond company pay scale
- Unorthadox teaching methods
- insists on teaching outside of company values
Artist in Residence
The Artist in residence is someone with such valuable experience, that they are invited in to teach, but their main gig is performance not teaching.
Values
- Shows up to Perform
- Shares their enthusiasm with students
- Knows how to act the part
- Extremely Passionate
Challenges
- Often “marks their lines” teaching to save themselves for performance
- Values performance over healthy practices
- Offers valuable but hard-to-convey knowledge
Teacher in Development
The Teacher in Development is at the beginning of their education journey. After all the time they’ve spent studying, They eager to apply their skills practically.
Values
- Wants to Learn to Teach Well
- Often have robust education
- Has fresh ideas and new perspectives
Challenges
- Needs extra support in learning studio values
- gets caught up in pedagogy versus student needs
The Side Hustler
The Side Hustler has 10 things going on at once. While takes up a lot of their time, it also gives them valuabe experience that they can bring tot the table.
Values
- Flexible Schedule
- Likes the Variety of the Job
- Wears many hats in and out of the studio
Challenges
- Many Obligations
- Will choose whatever pays the most
- Not as much explicit teaching experience