The overall
purpose of this blog is record my lesson plans, pictures of example artwork,
and experience I have during my Practicum.
In my first entry I am going to give advice (to myself) for the first
day of teaching middle and high school students. I have had a lot of past
experience working with Elementry student, but I have only worked with high
school students once. I am not really
sure what advice to give myself. The one
experience I had was positive. The
students were each very different and each student had very different levels
and types of artist abilities.
Have a
lot of patience. Lesson very carefully to what they say. I think a lot of them lack confidence in their
artwork and sometimes this makes this afraid to try new things. They can become
very defensive if they feel like they are failing themselves and sometimes even
you. I tell them the truth that I’m not
good at every type of art, but I do try different types. It’s like exploration,
you never know what you’ll discovery about yourself and be able to use in your
artwork in the future. If you don’t try, you definitely will never know.
Getting
to know their names is going to be a challenge for me. I have hard time with names. I can tell you everything we talked about,
but I have never been able to remember names. I usually takes me a good month
and names are very important to high school students. So I will have to work extra hard on this. I
will also need to make sure my lesson are challenging for the age level. I need to make sure the students are interested
in the subject matter and actively engaged.
I
think that over all I will be just fine, but will learn a lot for the hands on
experience.
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