Student Teaching Journal |
My last three weeks of my last placement were bittersweet. While I was looking forward to completing my degree and the future moving forward, I was also sad to be leaving my student teaching experience behind. My second placement has definitely been a situational rollercoaster due to COVID-19 and the remote learning circumstances. Throughout my placement I felt as though there was a lot of teaching experience I was missing out on. While I acknowledge that there definitely will be things I will have to learn and experience for the first time once I am teaching in a normal year, there are things I would have never learned if it weren't for the unique situation.
I have never incorporated more technology into a lesson before. I used to think technology didn't have a huge place in the art class, but I know have a lot of experience implementing it successfully and in multiple ways. Due to the lack of consistency with the access students have to art materials, I incorporated technology and nature into my lessons which I knew all students could access, and learn that artist can make art anywhere and with anything. Sometimes, restrictions and barriers force us to be more creative and come up with better ideas as a result. This was definitely the case for both me in my lesson plan designs, and the students in their projects. These last three weeks were kindergarten, first and second grade, and I was worried about how they would do with the technology required to even operate Zoom. However, by creating a lesson based around nature and using materials from outside, they were able to get a break from the screen and spend time in the nicer weather. I also found that by communicating with families and letting them know what we would be doing in class, and how they can support their student in the technical side of it created more community and openness to express difficulties or needs.
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