Journal Entry 2 ExperienceAs this is ongoing throughout my student teaching, I feel that with more experience the ideas of what to reinforce will always be around and ever changing. At every school there is something that could be reinforced and added to the way that you teach. So overall the idea from this journal post and the 4 weeks that I have been student teaching is that of experience. Mainly just with viewing how other teachers, learning where you draw the line on projects, behavior and just any aspect of teaching for me. You can never say you don’t have enough experience, and that was the first word that came to my mind when thinking about things to add to my teaching is that of more experience. AttitudeRelating to experience I think that for me now teaching and dealing with attitude from students and the behaviors that are commonly seeing in the school that I am in is on thing that I need to work on reinforcing in the classroom. I will be honest that sometimes I get angry with students that are being defiant, showing rude or disrespectful attitudes towards anyone in a teaching or authority position at the school. And when I come face to face with this I tend to leave the conversations, before I start to get into a battle with them, as thats what they want to do is argue. I feel that I will forever as a teacher have to deal with the attitude from students, its just about experience with these types of students that you learn how to discipline them, what you can and can’t do with individual students, and even if its worth it. Ive reached the point right now with this, thinking, “is this worth getting into an argument with the student about?” and “will it even change or effect the way this student behave later on in other classes?” Now I know this isn’t a common thing that happens at every school, but in schools similar to the one that I am at for student teaching, and as society changes for kids, I foresee this becoming a bigger issue and thing that gets discusses more in schools. OrganizingAnd lastly I think that I could add organizational skills or making things even more organized for me and the students in the long run, in my own classroom. Right now the classroom is organized but sometimes I notice that the students become disorganized or ruing the organization that is in place for the other classes and me as the co-teacher. So making things clearer on where things are to go, what happens during clean up and for me, making things easier for students to be responsible for their own organizing of the materials.
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Journal Entry #1#Tessellations During my first two weeks of student teaching I have discovered and learned a lot, especially how to transition from a student to teacher, being in the middle school on a daily basis.
I chose the word Tessellations because of two reasons, firstly its because it's the first project that the 7th graders due as a stepping stone into this semester of art. It allows for freedom of exploration and trial and error, somewhat similar to how I looked at the first two weeks so far of student teaching, trial and error. And secondly this project is all about piecing the design together to create a repeating pattern, and I feel like in teaching it's a similar experience from class to class, repeating the last lesson to 8th grade to another 8th grade period, then the same with 7th grade. Its also a perfect example of how I can piece all my learning so far into my student teaching, either solo teaching the 6th graders, or co-teaching a project with my cooperating teacher. This project for 7th grade showed me a lot of challenges that students might have with creating a work of art that solely relays on the creativity and willingness of student to create art. As I was just helping out and co-teaching these last two weeks I decided to test out something I had learned about in a past art education class on parallel play. This idea is that while the student are working you are also working on the same project as them, allowing to show them what you're working on, getting stuck on and how the overall piece should look somewhat similar. Now this was very difficult and extremely impractical to do as so many student in the 7th grade class need help, or we have behavior that needs to be addressed so Its finished to the level that I could during the same class time as the students. I left it the way it was and added watercolor over to show the level of work teachers do during class and the amount of time we could possibly get to start and finish the same project as our students, Its very difficult and almost impossible in a 7th grade class, to do everything, and work on an art piece, its near impossible. |
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