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Being Your Own Advocate invites pre-service, practicing, and veteran teachers to live within those tenuous and exiting first years of teaching. The personal stories of six novice art teachers highlight the need for and inevitability of advocacy in the early years (years 1-3) of their careers. This work is based on a longitudinal study that asked participants to create a weekly video diary, reflecting on their teaching experiences. While the study aimed to identify common issues for new art teachers and explore new ways for them to reflect on their experiences, the result was a beautiful narrative about the role of advocacy and the empowerment of new art teachers. The first part of the book introduces the context and purpose of the study laying the groundwork for important stories to surface. Part two explores the individual stories of six novice art teachers and includes imagery and reflections from over the course of two years in the field. Part three brings synthesis to the stories by addressing the need to encourage and develop advocacy in early professionals. Common issues are identified for novice art teachers as well as implications for understanding the inner workings of novice art teacher stories and how they can inform teacher education programs and professional and personal growth for new teachers of all disciplines. The final chapter offers practical resources and activities to guide future and current educators in their own journeys of empowerment.

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Dr. Stephanie Baer's remarkable research study, Being Your Own Advocate: Insights from Novice Art Teachers, focuses on the stories from 6 new art educators that reveal significant dimensions of their emerging classroom practice and professional growth during the earliest years of their careers. An expert in scaffolding the development of professional dispositions of preservice art teachers--including engaging them in creating their own ARTed Talks, Dr. Baer explores the evolution of professional voice as these novice art teachers navigate the real world of education, enhanced through their practice of advocacy and reflection. This study of 6 emerging art teachers, with insights added from Baer's own early teaching years, presents a long-needed and comprehensive model for pedagogical preparation enhanced by contemplative practice. The book deepens the understanding of 21st century complex and common issues needed by preservice and novice art teachers to help them exceed meaningful performance expectations as they join the art education profession. Renee Renee Sandell, PhD Art Education Consultant, ForThCo Vision LLC Program Director, SummerVision DC since 2010

Dr. Stephanie Baer's remarkable research study, Being Your Own Advocate: Insights from Novice Art Teachers, focuses on the stories from 6 new art educators that reveal significant dimensions of their emerging classroom practice and professional growth during the earliest years of their careers. An expert in scaffolding the development of professional dispositions of preservice art teachers--including engaging them in creating their own ARTed Talks, Dr. Baer explores the evolution of professional voice as these novice art teachers navigate the real world of education, enhanced through their practice of advocacy and reflection. This study of 6 emerging art teachers, with insights added from Baer's own early teaching years, presents a long-needed and comprehensive model for pedagogical preparation enhanced by contemplative practice. The book deepens the understanding of 21st century complex and common issues needed by preservice and novice art teachers to help them exceed meaningful performance expectations as they join the art education profession. Renee Renee Sandell, PhD Art Education Consultant, ForThCo Vision LLC Program Director, SummerVision DC since 2010

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Stephanie Baer is an assistant professor of art education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts, Masters in Secondary Teaching, and doctorate in Educational Studies at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Baer's work and publications can be seen at http: //www.stephaniebaer.com.

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