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.