Today I learned how the South Carolina Department of Education publishes their Standards. Someone recently asked me if I was interested in substitute teaching at the high school or middle school levels, so I figured I'd go investigate what the standards are in the subject areas I'd be ok teaching.
Since I have a degree in studio art, I started with the South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards for Visual and Performing Arts Proficiency 1. I took the PDFs and exported them into Markdown so I could combine all of the various tables into single pages. Since I'm talking about communication design, I should note that I managed to combine 153 pages into just 3.. I've published them @ Visual, Design, & Media Arts. 2,3,4 This way I can just use search and ChatGPT to answer questions about the standards.
Perhaps I'll go back in and do computer science at some point, but I think it'd be much more fun to teach art. And If I ever decide I want to 'retire' from the computer screens, I'd need to be certified to teach full time. 5,6. I just logged into the South Carolina Educators portal and I see that I already passed the subject area examination. I had forgotten because it was almost 20 years ago, but it's funny how everything circles around.
Perhaps I'll have a go at it someday. I think it could be fun and rewarding. It'd certainly get me away from the computer screens for part of the day, I could combine some of my more recent computer skills, and it would force me to practice art.
- South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards for Visual and Performing Arts Proficiency - https://ed.sc.gov/instruction/standards-learning/visual-and-performing-arts/standards/
- Visual Arts - /notes/art/education/visual
- Design - /notes/art/education/design
- Media Arts - /notes/art/education/media
- SC Alternative Certification - https://ed.sc.gov/educators/alternative-certification/
- SC Educator Portal - https://teach.sceducator.ed.sc.gov