#PastReflectionTime Journal entry 3 In my past education experiences, one key moment really shaped the way that I look at teaching and interact with students. In elementary school it was how my teachers approached me and the struggles academically and behaviorally I was having. In general I would consider myself well behaved my teacher(s) probably would say sometimes that was true, I then, as I still do now talk a lot. And it's a struggle to change that, Ive found personally ways to cope with that, my speech therapist in elementary school somewhat helped with that too. But with my academics during this time my teachers really didn’t do much, they signed me up for what we would call now a 504 and thought that was it, nothing else they needed to do. In reality I just needed that extra support in certain areas that should have been given at the beginning, avoiding any talk of a learning disabilities too. Now in reflection, this experience first hand with teachers that didn’t give support to they're struggling students (as I wasn’t the only one) and just shoving them under a behavior plan and called it good is really what I focus on when I'm looking at the idea of teaching students that might be struggling. I make sure to see who in my class needs more support and give them that, evaluating each student and distribute help to that students level of need. One of my EDUC professors said recently that teaching every student the same way, at the same amount, and same level, isn’t really teaching the majority it's teaching the minority, because each students at a different level and some might be further ahead or significantly behind then others.
My art honestly doesn’t change much as Im getting older, my ideas that I'm interested stay the same or I acquire new ones. I can utilize this more in showing the progression of ideas and expanding more on one idea, going further in depth, something I've done once or twice in my art creation. Looking back on past projects and creating or adding something more or creating new works of art from that one idea with a more detailed idea from the original topic. Utilizing different materials and mediums can help with the exploration of the idea and expanding on what you can or can’t create based on the material. For example I usually only painted in high school, as I got to college I still painted but with the exploration of oil painting it changed the way I mainly had to create works of art, considering more time and processes that when into the creation of one painting. Now for some reason my paintings still have the same look to them just with oil paints. Same with my fibers work you can tell my fibers work and sculpture work is all from me due to my corkiness and the amount of color and topics I focus on. With my path to become an art teacher, these two previous ideas of creating and looking at mediums shaping the ideas and process I take in creating an artwork. Im still finding it hard, even now to get further away from myself being and artist creating art and an educator just due to time commitments and classes. I personally go through periods of time where I just want to focus on creating artwork, and then solely focusing on my teaching. And I defiantly feel that now this semester just with being in k-12, Monday thru Friday and only being in one studio class, its hard for me to focus on doing both. While sometimes I miss creating artwork all the time, being the only thing I do, I feel that it's not something I want to do when I'm doing something else I equally love.
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