Journal Entry 5Professional development is important in becoming an educator because it helps you as a teacher to always keep learning new skills and techniques that you can be using in your own teachings. During this period of time during the pandemic this has been more important for educators and prospective teachers to be doing themselves. Reading and following other teachers in art, seeing how they are utilizing technology or how they are changing lesson plans to fit online learning. I will be honest before this pandemic I did not really focus on professional development at all besides reading about different art styles of teaching that I had already learned about. During my student teaching I have attended multiple in school and one district art meeting regarding professional development in the art room. One thing that we focused on during the art district meeting at the middle school level was talking about incorporating more ELL techniques into the classroom to help these students during projects and activities. And during my future teachings after that I have found that writing sentence starters and having visuals has been very useful for myself when teaching and seeing it help multiple types of students, not only ELL but LEP students and all around everyone.
Another professional development that I did was through art, my cooperating teachers and I explored with pour paint to use with the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders to do on top of their Clifford Stil paintings they had the opportunity from the Denver art museum to do for our class. So on top of the paintings we explored with the pour paint with students to use on top of their paints. But before we did this, I did my own pour paintings with Flotrel.
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