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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