#Smarties??? Journal Entry #5During my time at the middle school last semester in 350, I learned more about teaching and working with middle schoolers now then in any other class. Now a short story time on what happened to me personally when I taught my first lesson in the middle school, and decided to give them candy. For my lesson I was working with a 7th grade middle school class, it was a lesson about critiquing other students works while talking about their own artwork. I planned that students that showed their artwork to the whole class would get a smarties and student that answered questions and participated would get a smartie. Unfortunately students did not properly eat the candy but pretend to “smoke” the smarties by crushing them up. Reflecting on my past, in middle school it was something that I know other students in my grade and older did do, and should have reflected on this and remembered that middle schoolers don't think things through in the moment, but if it makes them feel or “look cool” then they just go for it. Now as for the present and the future, a couple things that I learned from this experience was this, one was to review, should I be giving out candy or find something else to reward students with. Second is to think about if giving out candy, maybe have a conversation beforehand with students about consequences, but this goes to my last and final reflection about the future of my classroom. Having a good classroom management and rules in place before this could happen so they already have pre-existing ideas about consequences. When you establish rules with your students the first couple days of class this solidifies to them what can and can't happen in the art room, even thinking about rules that could be kinda crazy, like rules regarding candy or toys this needs to be talked about regardless.
I could utilize art to represent my ideas and change in the way I reward the students, and classroom rules by creating class posters around the classroom with reminders about the classroom rules. I'm thinking about expanding on this idea about having posters I've designed for class rules, how to properly handle materials and eat food, and lastly how to brainstorm as some students might not want to raise their hands regarding the fact they might not have any ideas for the upcoming projects. Honestly I have no idea how I could utilize materials or forms to assist in expressing the change or revisions for this learned experience. The only thing I could think of, as of right now is utilizing wrappers of candy or exploring 3d materials
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