Residency - Weaver Lake Elementary
Hi, my name is Alyssa Herrera, I am a painter/drawer, baker, and small business owner. I have always dreamed of being an art teacher to kids K-12. I started teaching kids art when I was in high school. I volunteered to teach the Sunday School kids at my church art projects. It was so fun seeing how excited they got when they would come into the room seeing all the art supplies on the tables. My love of teaching grew when I became a junior in high school. I had this awesome art teacher, Ms. Buchholz. She taught her students by being less authoritative and more as a mentor, she kept her class fun and comforting. You could go to her and she would be there to help you if you needed it. Ms. Buchholz is always learning from her students and adjusting her lessons to accommodate to students and she even learned Spanish to help her non-english speaking students learn better. The way Ms. Buchholz teaches is what I hope to be like someday. I am extremely excited to start working with Judi Andersson because she will be a huge help to getting me to where I’d like to be as a teacher.
I am excited yet nervous to start my residency with Weaver Lake. Today, I started communicating with Judi Andersson. We talked over email to figure out what days would work for my schedule to meet and be apart of her 4th grade class, they are going to start in-person learning in February. Weaver Lake is a STEM based school and so they don’t have art classes. It will be fun to teach them about art and see how excited and happy they get from making art. I taught one lesson at Weaver Lake in the Fall 2020 with my classmates. I am excited to go back to Weaver Lake and learn about their school and to of course teach art and learn from Judi. Next Wednesday, I get to join their class on google meet and meet all of Judi’s 4th grade students for the first time.