Classroom management is the key to being a productive teaching artist at The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens (TYWLS), which is where I am doing my internship with Community-Word Project's Teaching Artist Training & Internship Program (TATIP). While we are helping our students find their unique creative voices, my fellow teaching artists and I need to keep in mind that these young ladies are still teenagers, who can get distracted and easily veer off track. In order

My experience in Community-Word Project's (CWP) Teaching Artist Training & Internship Program (TATIP) has been wonderful so far. I am interning once a week with a 4th grade class. When I started, I was so surprised and delighted to know that the students were attentive and were actively engaged in many of the activities. Each week, I observe how my teaching artist mentors, T. Scott Lilly and Mary Cinadr, present their lesson plans to the students and am able to connect what I

Interning at the The Young Women's Leadership School (TYWLS) with Katie Rainey has been a wonderful experience. While I was in grade school, all girls’ schools were stigmatized as being drama filled and limiting. However, through my experience at TYWLS thus far, I am questioning my entire educational experience attending co-gender schools. As the only girl of four children, I constantly yearned for sisterhood. I realized attending a school like TYWLS would have been conducive

In my first few experiences in the classroom as an intern, I was struck by the students’ enthusiasm. They seemed eager to participate in the activities and interact with the Teaching Artists Scott Lilly and Elizabeth Leonard, as well as each other. During the first class I observed, the topic was community poems. The students were instructed to envision what they wanted their future community to be like and then write a line to contribute to their table’s poem. The students t