It's all about the work: the work of learning and deepening our craft, and the work of getting work.
Trish Tillman, Director of Arts Learning at California Shakespeare Theater, writes about the value of internships and apprenticeships for emerging Teaching Artists in this month's TAO newsletter:
Discovering a Need and Filling It:
California Shakespeare Theater's Teaching Artist Fellowship Program
by Trish Tillman, Director of Arts Learning
I became a teaching artist rather by default. Both my parents were traditional classroom teachers. I had enough excellent acting and children’s theater training in college to let me know that somehow I wanted to teach, and teach theater. I knew I wanted to engage students of all ages in the kind of self-discovery, excitement and hope that I knew theater to be. But besides “drama teacher” (which to me inevitably implied doing cute shows about ladybugs with kindergarteners, which is fine, albeit limiting), there were no training programs, no name for the profession, no career path, no degree.
This uncharted environment has begun to develop some pathways, such as the new Cal Shakes Teaching Artist Fellowship.
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