This week I had the privilege of working with a 19 year old college student. She is going to change her major, and is seriously considering art education.

What advice would you give her? Find a college with an art ed degree? Get a general ed degree? Get a fine art degree? Relocate to a state that has good (or at least better) opportunities for art teachers?

She is shadowing me in the art room, and even teaching a bit of the lessons. She is helping out prepping art for our art show next week and will see all of our projects from the past year.

I shared with her the conversations I had at NAEA14 with elementary art teachers from across the country and urged her to contact her state art education association.

I shared lots of online resources, including:

• The Art of Education website
• Art Teachers group on Facebook
• Donna Staten’s Pinterest boards
• For iPads: Tricia Fuglestad’s blog at Dryden Elementary
• Marcia Beckett’s art ed blog directories on her Art is Basic blog (see blog header for links)

Now I’m turning it over to you:

What advice would you give to a college student considering a career in art education?

Please leave a comment!