This is my last week student teaching under my current CT and although I was excited to finish up the first half of my student teaching experience, I am a little bummed to leave some of the relationships that were beginning to form in the middle school.
On Tuesday I went up to Stout and had the opportunity to present to the upcoming fall and spring student teachers on student teaching and the edTPA. I remember the confusion and stress of what was to come, and wanted to calm the students down, to know that they are as prepared as they will ever be to student teach, and the bulk of learning how to teach will come in the first placement. I learned a lot about when and where to step out of my comfort zone and how to deal with many classroom management situations. I gave the students a couple of things that I wished I would have learned prior to student teaching, but am very happy to have learned it, such as exit slips and using collaboration along with questioning for formative assessment. I found that the students were mainly worried about getting a CT who they worked well with. This was on my first slide: to be open, honest, and ask questions to your CT. I definitely understand this concern, but have to say that I am incredibly lucky with my placement and that this honesty was always there.
This last week of school consisted of wrapping up the high school Studio Art quarter. All of the students who were unable to take the class another quarter were very sad to take down their studios and so was I. I experienced some of the best critiques of my life while in this classroom and really enjoyed watching unexpected relationships form around the artwork that they were making. Some of the students really found their niche in Art, while others had the opportunity to experiment with Art like they never had been able to do before.
The middle school students continued on with their first projects and became more situated into the classroom. It was a good experience to be able to watch different groups come and go through Art as well to see that there really is no norm in what the classes produce and that every single class is going to be different.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Week Eight
Wednesday was the very end of the first pent of my cooperating school. This means that we were finishing up all of the projects and my cooperating teacher and I went around the room and did Final Portfolio Reviews. Each student from fifth through eighth grade filled out a rubric about how they thought that they did in the last year relating to the standards and essentials of the class.
Fifth grade was still finishing up their Romare Bearden collage project and I really had to crack down on some of the students to complete the project and get going. 45 minutes is not very long to get all of the work laid out for a collage and then continue to be creative and get work done. Sixth grade finished up their masks, while seventh and eighth grade finished their still life drawings. My CT and I went around the classroom doing Portfolio Reviews. This was a crazy time especially for the students who were not caught up on work. I had to complete the grading of all of the projects in the class and grade half of the students in each class in three days. I really enjoyed doing Portfolio Review for all of these students, because I never had a chance to do anything like this until halfway through college. I hope to do this someday in my classroom, but if at all possible I would try to begin the review a little bit earlier since I would be doing the entire room of students. All in all, it went well and Pent 2 began halfway through the week.
My CT was gone at an Art Education Conference, so I was in charge introducing the rules and the new projects for the brand new group of students at the Middle School. I also had the opportunity of running Studio Visits at the high school on my own. I was very excited to have this experience so that someday teaching the first day of rules and projects will not have to be as overwhelming when I am completely on my own. All went well, but things got crazier on Friday afternoon as the students began getting riled up for the weekend. The younger grades are very talented this round, while the older grades are a little more rambunctious.
My CT is slowly taking over the classes once again as we turn more into team teaching the lessons of the beginning of the pent once again.
Fifth grade was still finishing up their Romare Bearden collage project and I really had to crack down on some of the students to complete the project and get going. 45 minutes is not very long to get all of the work laid out for a collage and then continue to be creative and get work done. Sixth grade finished up their masks, while seventh and eighth grade finished their still life drawings. My CT and I went around the classroom doing Portfolio Reviews. This was a crazy time especially for the students who were not caught up on work. I had to complete the grading of all of the projects in the class and grade half of the students in each class in three days. I really enjoyed doing Portfolio Review for all of these students, because I never had a chance to do anything like this until halfway through college. I hope to do this someday in my classroom, but if at all possible I would try to begin the review a little bit earlier since I would be doing the entire room of students. All in all, it went well and Pent 2 began halfway through the week.
My CT was gone at an Art Education Conference, so I was in charge introducing the rules and the new projects for the brand new group of students at the Middle School. I also had the opportunity of running Studio Visits at the high school on my own. I was very excited to have this experience so that someday teaching the first day of rules and projects will not have to be as overwhelming when I am completely on my own. All went well, but things got crazier on Friday afternoon as the students began getting riled up for the weekend. The younger grades are very talented this round, while the older grades are a little more rambunctious.
My CT is slowly taking over the classes once again as we turn more into team teaching the lessons of the beginning of the pent once again.
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