I was just reading an email from TASC, the Teaching Artist Support Collaborative of California. TASC is a wonderful organization working on behalf of teaching artists throughout the state of California, advocating for arts education as well as supporting working teaching artists. Reading further on its website, I found this useful chart that articulates the skills a teaching artist needs. They used four categories:

• Understanding Your Art Form
• Understanding Classroom Environment and Human Development
• Understanding and Using Educational Pedagogies and Standards of Practice
• Understanding the Business of Working in a School Environment

Read more here, and please share this practical information with friends, colleagues, undergraduate students, and teaching artists in training.

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