Dan Haycocks
Similar to Katie and Louise, Dan stated that his art teachers in school were awful, and if it wasn’t for a family friend, Judith he would never have found his passion or learnt about art. Believes that art is massively important to children and its annoying when people think it isn’t, play and being creative are the same thing, it’s equally as important as other subjects as you are solving problems, thinking visually and spatially.
Dan chose to teach as he wanted a secure job for my children and had already spent 10 years being creative and didn’t make much money from it. It’s important to show kids what’s out there and the different jobs and possibilities that they could do. He described his university experience as brilliant and thinks that people who don’t go miss out, you meet different people hw show you new things and broadens your mind.
His route into teaching began with two foundation courses and lasted a year at university, in between he did various jobs from scaffolding to screen printing. Dan enjoyed working in youth groups therefore he found a school which needed an unqualified teacher and he trained on the job and finished my degree at the same time.
His advice for someone becoming a primary school teacher is to just have fun with the children, make sure you explain things in different ways. It’s important for them to like you, just make them laugh and be kind. The worst thing about teaching is when people in management are constantly telling you what to do, he would like to spend more time on his own projects and spending time with his kids. The best thing is when children are really interested and enthusiastic about learning and what they are doing.
Dan’s opinion on the future of art in schools is as long as people do a good job and show it’s worthwhile and the students want to do it then it will thrive, if teachers are dictating then it won’t last. If he isn’t a teacher he would love to either be a musician or have a shed in the garden radio on and making kids books. Dan also does freelancing and creative projects alongside teaching, creating the prospectus and leaflets and creating the scenery for school productions. He’s always being creative, doing visual stuff at school and also musical stuff at home.
He is always looking for new people to inspire him including musicians, writers, people who are weird and absurd and break the rules who are slightly left field.
He wants to make graphics grow and grow and grow.
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