Week One August 27-30

August 27, 2019

·      What concerns do you have as you begin this journey as a student teacher?
o   Having multiple classes and keeping track of each student as an individual.  I want to create genuine relationships with each child and that can be difficult in classes of 25 students and seeing 6-8 classes altogether.
·      What skills did you learn from your cooperating teacher?
o   Dr. Armstrong is incredible at setting up the classroom, creating provocations, and beginning and closing a lesson with conversation. She creates genuine and unique relationships with each student, teacher, and classroom. She bases her art lessons and projects off of what her students are interested in and connects her art projects with other classroom subjects to create interdisciplinary connections.  

·      What challenges did you have? How did you address them?
o   When working with the third graders in the natural environment making clay structures for the woodland creatures, we should have set the classroom up so that each clay wood block was on the table one next to another so that the students were forced to be close together and collaborate or inspire each other instead of being spread out and coerced to do things more independently. We want to encourage collaboration.
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·      What goals do you have for the following week?
o   We want to further explore objects that fly in the art space. We also discussed animals’ roles in other countries and also underwater environments.

Photos of a Woodland Creature Forest Clay Adventure with Third Grade and creating a story drawing book with children in Kindergarten. 

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August 28, 2019

·      What new trick did you learn?
o   Today I learned how to needle felt with wool on Styrofoam
o   Warm and cool tones of died factory-made and real sheep wool
o   Creating beta fish


Photos of Needle Felting a Beta Fish with colour dyed wool with Fourth Grade. 









August 29, 2019

·      What are your strengths as a teacher? What are your strengths as an artist? How can they contribute to a successful experience in student teaching?
o   I am very strong in relating to a child, whether that is reading them to decipher if they are more extroverted or introverted and conversing with them to make them feel more comfortable as that type of individual. Or knowing if they want to collaborate with me or work on something alone.  Or realizing what they are interested in and helping to expand upon that.  I love when a student has that moment of realization that I want to work with them as an equal and not as their superior.  When you can see and feel that they have let down a wall with you and opened up to let you into their mind, emotions, and energies. On the other hand, as an artist I have a very strong aesthetic and eye for combining materials, colors, and designs into a more cohesive piece.  I am very strong at perspective, cropping, and arrangement of my artwork, to create strong style and theme. I use simple lines with vibrant colors.  I enjoy turning something plain and used into something new and expressive. I will combine these strengths as an educator and an artist to continue to form those relationships with students but encourage them to find their niche in the art-world. I will help each child to discover what medium and aesthetic they enjoy the most but also open their eyes to other materials and mediums that they can use in new or familiar ways.  I will encourage my students to find inspiration from their surroundings/piers/environment, their interests outside of art, their social world, and more. My classroom will bring culture, society, home-life, and emotions into their art.


Photos of an array of materials to show texture, translucency/transparency, collage, and material exploration to Kindergarten. 
Photos of colour mixing and color naming with Fifth grade as they seek inspiration from flowers and draw garden paintings with their colour creations in 2 collaborative pieces. 








August 30, 2019

·      Identify three questions you have regarding any aspect of your student teaching experience.
1.     Will I create one large lesson plan for each grade level that I teach that includes different units (the different class days) or should each day that I’m teaching have a completely separate lesson plan?
2.     Will Judy (the woman who comes into the class to observe me) have a relationship with Teresea and be in communication with her throughout this semester or will I be the middleman?
3.      Is this a proper way to display my weekly journal reflections ( I also take loose notes in a journal with me through out the entire day at Falk). 

 Photos of an Underwater Creature clay adventure. Students working together to create structures for their creatures with loose parts and clay that will be destroyed when the period ends. 









Moving Forward

Kindergarten 
  • The mud kitchen
  • Unlikely and unusual objects as art materials
  • Natural resources to make art 
  • Art in nature 
  • Textures 
  • Collage 
  • Loose Parts
  • Material Exploration


Third Grade






Fifth Grade














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