Journal Entry #9#DifferentTimes In my academic life there isn't a large number of moments, events and experiences that first stick out in my mind in the beginning of my ideation process. I've already journaled about my experiences in elementary school, being bullied in middle school, and my high school having very low expectations for a large majority of their student population. But the last thing that I usually think about, that relates to all three ideas and events is the transition from each, elementary school, middle school, high school and even into college life. The main three elements from this topic that I will be reflecting on is through friendships, technology, and of course the academics of each.
Now in elementary school I started originally in first grade, I didn't attend your average kindergarten in the district like most kids, so this was one reason I was academically behind according to the districts standards. But one thing that I remember about Woodglenn elementary school was my friends, everyone was friends with each other, in terms of bullying it did really exists from what I know of. Now, not every elementary school from what I learned after moving to a different one and observing at Beattie is like Woodglenn. And compared to middle school it was a lot more difficult to make friends, a common theme if found from gathering people's reflection about middle school. In all 6th-8th grade is just a difficult time for students from all generations, its harder to make friends because of drama, the chemical makeup of students in 6th-8th grade is just all out of whack from hormones. Friends for me became easier in high school as I didn't care much about making friends or wanting to be accepted, after three years of being bullied in middle school I lost interest in trying to impress the “popular students”. And in college I didn't start out wanting to make friends but being in the dorms living with the same people and rooming with my best friend from high school it actually became a lot easier to make friends because we all had multiple things in common and got to know each other. Now in my life from friends I have about two friends from high school still in my life, and the rest are from becoming friends in the dorms at Newsom. Now technology, again I've written about how technology has affected my life briefly, and the drastic increase of it in the last 10 years. But this goes back from starting at my kindergarten at the parochial school to college life now. Comparing my kindergarten with the ones I have at Beattie its very drastically different regarding the use of tech. From what the teacher has told us is, she's noticed a lack of motor skills, critical thinking and creativity from the Kinders, and she’s linked them to the greater use of technology in the younger kids. When I was 4 or 5 we had one large computer at home, a TV, Radio, and a home phone. So overall my childhood was mostly spent watching tv if we looked at my use of tech at that age, the most I could do was play a VHS tape onto the TV, and call my grandma on the home phone. My creative experience was great because of my mom, she drew cartoons and painted often with me from a young age, so without the technology I was able to be more creative, explore art and Praxis. Kids in the 21st century are not doing this with their parents from what I’ve observed. And finishing up with reflection on academics, that for me didn't become more of my priority till I got into high school, as I just skated by in 6th-8th grade, doing what needed to be done to get by. But in high school and comparing to college, I feel that in college I definitely saw a difference in curriculum and how I looked at homework then I did in high school. Some of it could be that I wasn't in advanced college prep classes in high school, so getting into college it became somewhat daunting and a shock for me about the workload. Maybe that's why I chose to pursue art because it was a familiar feeling and knowledge from highschool to college. This subject is a good topic to explore when it comes to creating art and showing the change or revisions made as the whole K-college experience was one big revision regarding the three topics I wrote about. You could easily create an art collection for each grade, how I felt from each grade, exploring different mediums for the emotions that are being felt. For example in 7th grade it was my lowest I’ve ever felt regarding my mental health, bullying and constant sickness that I experienced made me drained, physically and mentally, so I would use darker colors, charcoal, and very abstract forms to exhibit how I was feeling during this time in my life. Finally as an art teacher keeping in mind all these three topics as I see that students know these are their three main concerns in K-12 life. Friends (social status), Technology, and Academics are things as a teacher in any subject you have to keep in mind with your students, and even yourself. I think that we forget sometimes in college to have an actual life outside of academics, and that's doing things with friends and now a days I find that I go to technology to help relieve stress, through Youtube videos, writing on a blog like this, and creating artwork digitally helps with stress.
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Journal entry #8#OneTooTwoOptions From my observations at Beattie last week it got kinda crazy. One moment in particular that stood out for me was with a student regarding discipline. Now this event relates back to my idea about my own personal teaching theory and research during my time at the elementary level. As I've been an active participant with teaching and interacting with the middle schools for the last two years, it feels like I can say I know how to handle students better at this age level. They are better able to articulate what they feel at the middle school age, unlike at the elementary grades of 3rd and kindergarten. Now I know that being at the elementary was going to be different and the way you interact with, teach and discipline students behavior is different, I'm learning in this experience that they are drastically different. Last friday, I had a kindergarten student that was having a rough day, i've witnesses before him having a hard day in the past with the art teacher their and it became quickly apparent to me that he struggles with behavior. But for me on Friday, without their regular art teacher their, reacting to behavior was solely on me. A lot of questions came into my mind about how to react to his recent behavior, he was possibly putting himself in harm's way as he was balancing on the edge of his chair, he wasn't listening to two teachers re-directs, wasn't making eye contact or following the lesson instructions. I found myself asking, what do I do? So in this moment I found this a new learning experience personally, it challenged me to think on the spot of, “what would mrs.noel do?” It also meant that what I said, and how I reacted with this student for the rest of the class was going to shape how we both saw the situation. The longer I let his behavior go the more the student thinks it's okay, but I am losing at the discipline battle, and that of those in the future. In that moment I decided the best way to go about this was giving them two options, they could sit in the chair correctly or go sit in break time for 10min and I will talk with them afterwards. Now for the future, I think this is the way to go, giving the students the choice to choose their own consequences, they can in the moment fix what they are doing, or go to the “break time” and think about why they chose the option they did, and if they see what was wrong about it. This event overall lead me to think about my new topic and way of creating for the journal entry, after the time to reflect on my semester so far, I had enough time to think about what I want to focus on creating, and giving myself two options. To either draw out the idea, story, reflection, teaching event, moment, life moment, anything and everything into one drawing on what would be in a way, a tile. The tile can be either drawn out on a 6x6 square, paper, fabric, woven fabric, canvas, or through digital medium and it focuses on one symbol from the journal entry. As I already know this journal entry will come out later than the due date, and the art portion will not look as great as future tiles, im giving myself options now to grow. With having more choices it limits what my brain thinks about when I go to create. Similarly to what I was trying to do with the student last friday, by restricting their options for behavior it’s trying to have them focus on what their doing in the moment rather than what they can do later on in the future.
#ArtActivism Journal entry #7Art has been a long lasting method in society since people were drawing on cave walls. It’s been the main way for communicating ideas, traditions, stories and so much more from century to century. In the 21st century we see art in different forms, you still have the traditional art, painting, drawing and sculpture, but in 2019 we are seeing new forms. Art has transformed into mass media, through instagram pictures, to Youtube being a new form of art as it still communicates knowledge, ideas, and stories just as artwork does.
My ideas about art contributing in society is that it's definitely a benefit for the community of people that look at the artwork. I'm more of an art history person, I enjoy the history behind art that influences people's ideas and perspectives on topics, because it really shows the power that art has among people. So you could say that my ideas transformed through my time here in college at CSU, taking art history 3 and art in the 19th century. In the modern terms art contributes again in a different form, it takes on a more social element, and even being a form of entertainment. Performance art pieces have become more popular than the traditional forms of creating a painting or drawing based off of a social movement or idea. Art activism as we talked about in class has always been around since the 17th and 18th century where people would create artwork to prove a point or express a different idea. Now in the 21st century we see art activism relating to politics, or a way to express an idea regarding a topic, for example mine was bullying. In class I created a lesson surrounding the subject of bullying, how that affects people's mental and physical health. This idea is more meaningful to me, as I have experienced bullying in my middle and high school years, even in college i've experienced bullying. So this definitely affects the way that I look at social justice, art activism, and art that has a message, when I look at the artwork. If I would have started creating artwork then, during the time I was being bullied, and created an art pieces that had that topic, it would have been mainly in graphite and paint. Digital art isn't starting to become a common medium as computers where still bulky, ipads had just came out on the market and I was still using a flip phone. So the technology would have been a road block, but it would show the progression of my ideas through mediums. As of right now, I feel like I would utilize technology to showcase the advancements art has made in different forms through the idea of art activism. Journal entry #6#Praxis&Play In the Beatte lesson during Friday's class, we focused on the exploration of materials through using tissue paper. The students were given an assortment of tissue paper in a variety of colors to explore with in their sketchbooks. During this lesson I witnessed students laying the tissue paper down flat, crumpling them up, and layering the tissue paper on top of each other to create different colors. While also watching the students view the tissue paper colors bleeding through onto their paper, and mixing into new colors. This whole project is an example of play and Praxis through materials, the students had a whole class to experiment with how the tissue paper reacted to the watered down glue, the use of other tissue paper, and the glueing down to the sketchbook paper.
This experience for me showed the importance again about having time for students to explore their materials. For the start of projects its good to give students time to utilize and play with the materials before they start creating their final projects. It connects back to the idea of Praxis and play that I really enjoyed learning about in the last semester's class, where we created projects solely on the play surrounding materials. Watching students interact with materials and creating what they want, while also watching the students learn what they can and can't do with the material. I think that from this practice with the tissue paper first, when they start to work on the final project of creating and adding to a tree, they can reflect on what they did. Did they crumple the paper up to create texture and add that to the tree for leaves, maybe they will use it to create texture on the tree, or around the tree. These are the things the 3rd and kindergarteners will learn from after the Praxis or the materials. In my next phase of teaching i'm definitely going to allow more time for exploration of materials in the sketchbooks so help them think deeper about the materials, and maybe effect the way they create the final project. |
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