10 Tips to Survive the Start of the School Year as an Art Teacher

🎨 Welcome back to Managing the Mess! I’m Katie Jarvis, an elementary art teacher, and today I’m sharing my top 10 tips to help art teachers not just survive but thrive at the start of the school year.

Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a new teacher, these strategies will help you set the tone for a successful year ahead.

🔔 What You’ll Learn:
-The importance for setting up rouines at the start of the year
-Takin care of your voice
-Collaborative art projects and how they can help ease you into the school year
- Starting with simple art supplies
- Getting organized
-Having a solid management plan
-Taking care of yourself and askin for help!

These tips are designed to help you feel confident and prepared as you head into the new school year. Let’s make this year the best one yet!

Featured Resources:

* How to Avoid Clean Up Chaos in the Elementary Art Room

* Elementary Art Behavior Management Plan

* How NOT to Lose Your Voice as a Teacher

* Managing Absent and New Students in the Elementary Art Room- 8 Art Teacher Tips

🌈Follow me on Instagram

🛍️Managing the Mess Amazon Storefront

* I am an Amazon Affilate and receive a small commission if you purchase items from my Amazon links.
#artteachertips #arteducator #artteachertools #artteacherhaul #artteacherbacktoschool #elementaryartteacher #primaryartteacher #elementaryart #managingthemess #artclassorganization #artteacherbacktoschool #howtobeanartteacher #howtoteachart #arteducator #arteducation

[sarahanderson]

Thank you!! I am in teachers of Tomorrow and they throw you into teaching kind of sink or swim style. I have a strong background in art but I'm struggling with classroom management. Your channel is making me feel better and capable. I am alone as a special in the school. Thank you for helping me.

[julileighton]

thank you for this! Your advice to drink water reminded me to set my reminder to go to the bathroom every morning before my first class.🙃

[AKMArt-vjvi]

Thank you so very much! Losing your voice is a super huge problem! Glad you touched on that!!! 🔥

[bb]

love your energy & attitude & ideas!

[SPENCEROROURKE-jm]

Hi Katie where did you get that Entering the Art Room Chart? I didn't see it on your TPT

[malitour]

I really have enjoyed watching your videos and all the wonderful advice even as a teacher of 10 years. Well, more like eight-ish when you throw in Covid that totally threw everything out the window for two years. My question to you is: I love the seating charts and I wanted to incorporate the numbers for each seat however, teaching kindergarten through six. There's different amounts in all seven of my classes. One of the key things I do is split up the boys and girls for the most part, and have roughly equal amounts of people at every table as much as possible. But if I have all my tables numbered sequentially, and I fill up all of my tables with three but SOME of my classes might have four at a table that throws the sequential number system off. How do I solve that problem? I hope that makes sense. Maybe the numbers wouldn't work but I really wanted to try them. It might be something obvious, but I can't wrap my head around it. Thanks for any help. Hope your school year is going well so far. 🥰

[StarryDreamer]

do you have special ed students? I have Cerebral Palsy and when I was in school (90s/2000s) they wouldn't let me take art after 4th grade, assumably 'cause some of the drawing was hard to keep up with, they never really said why, but I was moved to music class. it's probably easier with little kids but I was curious what lessons a teacher would have if there was a special needs kid? luckily my mom filled my love of painting lol