art teacher

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school program staff

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elementary school teacher

Young Rembrandts

I have been with Young Rembrandts for about 8 years.  In the beginning they provided training for class management and how to  teach the classes the way they wanted them taught.  They provided me with all the materials and supplies needed for each class and each student.  Through monthly meetings supplies are refilled and new lessons are provided.  The amount a teacher can work is between the company and the individual.  They have worked with me to have a balanced schedule.  All classes are based on the school or location's time.  It is a set schedule.

The workplace culture is a school.  You as a teacher are in a school with children.  The children all have different abilities and different interest levels.  The most important part is that they want to be in your classroom learning how to draw and have fun.  A school environment is typically fluid, there are constant changes.

The hardest part of the job is managing 30 kids after school on a Friday before a break.  There are times when classes are tougher than others.  (Management is there to help and strategize for success.)

The best part is forming relationships with the students and their parents and seeing the evolution of the children. I love to see them learn a new technique, approach, changing, excitement, passion.
 
I have found management to be very giving, accommodating, supportive.
Management is always trying to make the company better and that includes helping us be better teachers.  They are always an email, phone call or text away for the teachers.

I have learned that I love teaching these classes.  I love art and drawing.  I can manage a class of students.  The company is behind me, supporting me.  This company is full of friendly, encouraging, supportive people. I have enjoyed my years with the company.

Division of franchise with private owner that has to answer to corporate standards. Bumbling local management gets spiteful at employee inquiries, then goes into radio silence to questions she does not want to answer.

Difficult position with each school being different and lots of false 
starts and class falloffs that leave teachers scrambling to find other work with little notice. (Note that if one of your classes gets dropped by school system and you take another more stable job for that day, rather than wait 8 weeks for the next session to POSSIBLY start, management will not be pleased.and you will be penalized)  

Nature of company is to string along teachers until maximum possible class attendance is attained.

Some of this is standard for after school teaching companies, where you work IF management can pull together a class, but most are more honest and ethical about it.

Big turnover so they are always looking for new help.

Pay rate well below most other after school teaching jobs with many unpaid hours. Inflexible, dumbed down one size fits all curriculum and often large classes of widely mixed ages make for little more than an hour's group babysitting. 

So, if your just out of or still in school and want to teach, this is a necessary, short stepping stone.  Professionals need not apply.

Teachers are assigned as many schools as they request, but have no control over which schools and how many they are actually given.  We are paid $20 per class (which last 1 hour, once a week.)  This is a job which, by nature, cannot be full-time.  Working with the students in the school environment is nice as the classroom is provided, but is often difficult because it's immediately after school and the kids are out of the school-day mindset, and we're not they're regular teachers.  All lesson plans and supplies are given to us by management at the start of the 9 week session, which is wonderful.  The downside is that, being a franchise, it doesn't leave much room for the students to get really creative.  It does ensure that the teachers have a solid template to work from so that everyone can follow along and come up with similar pieces.  I only see coworkers and managers at our once-a-month meetings to re-supply and pick up paychecks.  It's nice to have such independence, but it's also difficult to stay in touch with superiors if there are any questions or concerns.

Teaching kids how to draw was very fun and rewarding. The lesson plans were provided and easy to follow, as were the supplies. However, that's kind of where the pros stop. The job is often listed as $x/hour, because that's how long each class you have is. I wouldn't consider the job paid hourly though. You get paid per class essentially. Between driving to the school it's held at, preparing materials, teaching, and cleaning up, could take more than an hour.
For example, if you get paid $20/class taught and it takes you a total of 3 hours of driving, set up, teaching, and clean up, you're basically making $6.6/hour of your time spent. You're only ever paid for the teaching portion of the job.
You aren't paid reasonable gas money, even though driving to multiple locations is a huge part of the job. There are no benefits.
And because classes are more than likely going to be an after school program for kids, you'll likely never get more than 5 classes a week.

In short, the job itself is fun, but it's underpaid and unsustainable in every way. It's best looked at as a supplement to another job, or just for fun,

I love my position as a drawing Instructor with Young Rembrandts. Although the hours can be brief, the work is low stress. I always feel supported by management, and I feel heard, appreciated, and respected. It is a very fun job, and there is never a dull moment! I look forward to every shift.

If you've never lead a classroom of children, don't be too intimidated. I don't consider myself a natural leader, let alone a leader of children, since I didn't grow up in any caretaker role, nor did I have prior experience teaching children. But I had plenty of other transferable skills, such as teaching adults, working in retail, working at a family resort, and working with children with autism. As long as you have lots of patience and can learn to redirect, and enforce good behaviors with positive feedback, you can learn the rest of the skills needed to manage a classroom. And if you ever have trouble, management is great at offering support and advice.

I needed to prepare ahead of time by doing the lesson myself and preparing the materials for over 100 children in one day.

I enjoyed the training I went through and sharing art with children.  It taught me alot about my own process in creating art.

My supervisor was great and supportive at all times.  I loved my co-workers.

On a typical day I would teach 4 classes back-to-back.  I would have a lesson for them to make the art project relevant to them, talk to them about the history and techniques to use.  I would then distribute the materials and teach each stroke of the design of the day to the children.  Then I would coach them through coloring it to create a finished product to take home.  

The hardest part of the job was managing large groups of excitable children, but i still enjoyed it.  

My favorite part was to see the excitement in the children's eyes when they would surprise themselves with how well they do on the project.

I loved the job!

A job that respected their teacher above all, and made sure they had all the supplies and encouragement to do their jobs. Flexible hours, with adoringly nice staff and coworkers. 

I had organized my school schedule to fit in my teaching hours -- one hour after an ordinary elementary school day -- where I taught a small group of students from grades 1st to 5th basic drawing skills. I taught then not only techniques, but also artist terminology and fundamentals. 

The most enjoyable part of my job was working with such accommodating, understanding bosses, and getting to teach young children about art the way that I wished I was taught when I was their age. But of course, handling even a small group of elementary school children is no easy task, and it was often hard to keep them in their seats. Even if the class WAS just for an hour.

A typical day at work would include going to a school after hours and teach 3rd - 6th graders how to draw. They would use colored markers and follow along with me as I drew a preconceived picture on the board of an animal, etc. They could do their own embellishments. I learned classroom management, discipline and rewards for good behavior. I had no co-workers for the most part; I was responsible for groups of up to 25 children. The hardest part of the job was having to leave because at the same time I worked for Young Rembrandts I was also working full time as a Legal Assistant. The most enjoyable part of the job was seeing the advancement and happiness on the faces of the children as they learned about the world of art.

Working for Young Rembrandts, I teach over 100 students each week at five different schools in the western suburbs.  There are three sessions at each school - fall, winter and spring - in which I have new students but also many return!

The lessons are designed to teach children from Kindergarten to fifth grade.  Of course, the drawing abilities of a five year old are vastly different from those of a 10 year old, or at least most of the time.  The biggest challenge of this job is how to make the lessons understandable for the youngest students while not boring the older students.  

My greatest satisfaction comes from seeing a student who began a session convinced that he would be unable to draw anything complete his first drawing.  If the students follow my step by step instructions, they can turn out wonderful drawings of which they can be proud.

Typically I'd work 3 to 5 days a week one hour at a time for twenty dollars a class.  The hours were very little due to the many instructors.  Commuting is a must in this job as the company is hired by schools to work as a after-school program teaching art.  I loved teaching the children about art in both a historical context, use of medium and creating works of art using the Montessori method.  It was fun and the best reward were the smiles.  The hardest part of the job was the challenging time restrictions and accepting that the job had a very technical side.  Although it was about teaching 'art', the focus lay primarily in the composition skills necessary for creating works of art and not so intensely on the creativity of the individual.

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