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Mrs. Ruth Kelso

Mrs. Ruth Kelso. Franklin Central High School Art Teacher -Intro to 2D/3D Art -AP Art History -Adv. 2D Art II, III, IV, and V By: Taeler Prescott. What attracted you to teaching in general?.

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Mrs. Ruth Kelso

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  1. Mrs. Ruth Kelso Franklin Central High School Art Teacher -Intro to 2D/3D Art -AP Art History -Adv. 2D Art II, III, IV, and V By: Taeler Prescott

  2. What attracted you to teaching in general? • -”I always had a passion for art and to work with kids. I had originally started out as a social worker because of the love I had with working with kids but I still loved art. Because of this, my professor suggested that I should become an art teacher that way I could enjoy my love for art as well as my love for kids together.”

  3. What attracted you to become an art teacher? • -”Like I had said previously, I had always loved art and when I mentioned to my professor about my love for both kids and art, she suggested to me that I should become an art teacher.”

  4. What did you experience as a first year teacher? • -”There’s definitely one thing everyone should know about: not everything about being a teacher can be learned by reading a textbook. I had a great first-year teaching experience. I had wonderful support as a first-year teacher with the administration and mentor teachers. Not a lot of teachers can say that especially if you are an art teacher. It’s an incredible amount of hard work but what isn’t? I also realized that I had to be very aware of everything that I had said because it impacts every student in some way.”

  5. What has been your favorite part about teaching? • -”At the middle school age? I loved how it was a small school where I got to see everybody in the building. When I got here to the high school, however, I don’t always get to see everyone because students can branch out more. I will say this though, an ah-ha moment happens in myself when I see the creativity that blossoms in 30 different interpretations, in 30 different unique interpretations. When I see the older students have an ah-ha moment about how they see that they can truly do something outstanding makes me overjoyed because I know that I was meant to do this.”

  6. If you could go back in time, would you change what you wanted to be? • -”It depends on the day of the week,” she laughed. ”Most of the time I would say no but if I had to choose, I would go into some kind of psychology. I have always been fascinated with art therapy and I heard how Purdue is offering an art therapy course to obtain a Masters in. So I would love to do something like that.”

  7. What is your favorite medium to work in? • -”Well I’m a painter mostly, like that’s what I specialize in. So, I would say that oils would be my first choice if I were to paint something and then acrylics would be my next choice. However, I recently got into mixed media and I really enjoy that.”

  8. Do you prefer to work with older level art students or younger level art students? • -”Middle school and up. Older kids are preferable because communication is better. When kids are at a young age, they are hard to understand what they want. For example, if a young kid had to go to the bathroom they wouldn’t tell me they would cry or throw a fit whereas someone at the middle school or high school age can just be like, ‘Can I go to the bathroom?’ So to me I personally wouldn’t want to work with young children.”

  9. What has been the downfall of being a teacher in general? • -”To be honest, it’s all the external crap that goes on. If I was left alone to teach do what I love, it would be a perfect world. It’s all the other stuff I have to deal with behind the scenes: parents, deadlines, research for every little thing. Nothing can be left open and I must have everything written out to a T otherwise it would be chaos.”

  10. Downfall of an art teacher? • -”You have to be organized. It helps to be a little OCD. You have to know where everything is and if everything is out of wack then so is the classroom. Because the general public is lacking in art education, the relevance of art is decreasing. People don’t understand the higher level of thinking that art facilitates. If art is done right, every child participates and no child is left behind. In the eyes of the people, they have this perception that art isn’t a true education causing art education to dwindle in schools. When in reality it’s a very important part of education.”

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