{"id":370,"date":"2014-05-05T07:51:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T11:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newtest.schoolforyoungartists.org\/?page_id=370"},"modified":"2016-01-10T12:34:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T16:34:15","slug":"assistant-teachers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.schoolforyoungartists.org\/assistant-teachers","title":{"rendered":"Hiring Assistant Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I select assistants from among my students. It is a continuation of their work with me, kind of a next step. I look for people who like to work with others, who stand up for themselves, but are also willing to share. I look for those who volunteer to help and who can ask for help themselves. Sometimes I can identify a potential assistant from as early as six, and sometimes not until as late as 12. Children can mature into becoming a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Some children see their older classmates becoming assistants and ask me about the possibility for themselves. In a mixed-age class the younger students learn things from the older that I couldn&#8217;t teach them myself. I particularly like it when students come to me and ask about becoming an assistant. My school is about nurturing and helping my students to realize their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Once they begin the course, they discover our program from a whole new perspective.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They develop leadership skills.<\/li>\n<li>After each class we discuss some of the psycho-dynamics that went on during the class. In this way I assuage judgements they may have made and give them a way to understand what might be influencing those classroom interactions that were difficult to deal with in the moment.<\/li>\n<li>They learn some of the aspects of managing the tools and materials by the way those things are arranged, organized and cleaned.<\/li>\n<li>They learn efficient techniques for closing the studio after a class and making it ready to be opened again for a following class.<\/li>\n<li>And because we have mixed-age classes, they experience the honor of being given more responsibility before their peers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When a person is an assistant in training, he or she goes on the list of those who are already assistants. When I need help, I first call on the person who has been on that list the longest. If that person isn&#8217;t available, I go to the next.<\/p>\n<p>Initially a new assistant won&#8217;t get many opportunities to assist, but I make it clear that we have a new relationship, instead of Teacher\/Student, we are now more like Master\/Apprentice.<\/p>\n<p>I will be giving him or her help in changing his or her <em>student status<\/em> to the <em>status of teacher<\/em>. For instance, I will speak up for the new assistant if a student challenges his or her authority. I will be speaking to the new assistant privately when the way in which they have related to a student doesn&#8217;t reflect the ground rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I select assistants from among my students. It is a continuation of their work with me, kind of a next step. I look for people who like to work with others, who stand up for themselves, but are also willing to share. I look for those who volunteer to help and who can ask for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-370","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolforyoungartists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolforyoungartists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolforyoungartists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolforyoungartists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolforyoungartists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolforyoungartists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolforyoungartists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/370\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolforyoungartists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}