Journal entry #10#BeingInHighSchoolAgain As I haven't been to beattie in about two weeks ive decided to reflect on my time in my 450 class at Fossil Ridge High school. I've greatly enjoyed my time their in my 450 class twice a week and it's been a great learning experience for me in terms of interacting with and teaching at the high school level. One event that I recall the most is from my first lesson teaching at the high school level. I was very nervous as I’ve never taught a lesson to older students, and these being 10th graders the student can be a lot more judgemental and defiant then the middle schoolers. This was more of a moment that I would like to reflect on as the overall lesson and introduction to the art history portion went very well in terms of delivering the content to students. A couple of things that I observed was that students in high school need a routine that they do, in order to gather and recall information. The students have small sketchbooks where they are to take notes, glue in artwork from the lecture and write down key information that is being said in the lesson. This all helps them later on during their projects in order to recale and create information. This can be one element of educational learning for high schoolers is that repetition and the more you say something the more likely everyone will remember that information. For me it was a great learning experience, I never was very fond of the idea of teaching high schoolers, for multiple reasons, and after being in 450 I am still hesitant but more open to being a high school art teacher later on in my teaching career. But again one thing I learned from this time is to repeat key information for students, don't stress about if they remember the small information or sometimes the big stuff, as long as you give them the means to collect and keep notes, like the sketchbooks, they at the high school age should start taking their own notes into their own hands. As one problem ive noticed with the 9-12th grades is the use of technology, especially the airpods. Knowing this information as a teacher it personally helps me to look in the future at what to look for from my students and help prevent the sneaky airpods behind the hair/hoodie trick ive seen happening.
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