Student Teaching Experience Speaker

• Days are minute by minute
• Taught three classes
• Get in teaching as soon as possible: DAY 1!!!
• Projects:
• Additive and subtractive clay busts (represents you, literally or figuratively)
• Allow students to do what they want: it could be the difference between them showing up or not
• Focus on symbolism
• Andy Goldsworthy Lesson:
• Focus on principles of art and design
• Hand outs on what Goldsworthy made
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• Necessity of students planning their pieces
• Sculptures from nature
•  Kinetic Sculptures
• Wire hanger with nylon on top
• Worked to make academic context and art history
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• Writes lesson plans in the way your head to retain better
• edTPA stress
• Took break between lessons and gave little information
• Contemporary sculpture ideas
• Difficult concepts
• Discussion can work dependent on class dynamics
• Planning and meaning in artwork
• Doesn't need to "look cool"
• How to tie meanings in
• Ceramics:
• Half the class hand building, half on the wheel
• Ceramic boxes - creative with closed lid
• Getting technique and form down
• Scoring and Slipping
• Guarded Tumblers
• TIME MANAGEMENT 
• Designate duties: pug mills, cleaning sink, cleaning tables, by name
• HAVE A PLAN OF ATTACK
• Remind the students that it is all practice
• Troubleshoot 
• Show students what can go wrong and what can go right
• THIS is why something went wrong
• If instruction doesn't work change it for the next class!
• Intro to Art
• Surrealism Unit
• Dealt with students dealing with "Crafty" who was all about having fun, not learning in depth
• Students struggled learning with a different type of teacher
• Rendering, shading, form
• Key terms
• Creating the Persona
• Gradual
• Need to learn to know which kids to be less strict with
• Students need to respect
• Establish authority and knowledge
• Ease into fun and joking
• BE YOURSELF
• Use technical language but be relatable
• Tweak teacher's lessons or create your own lessons
• PLC Meetings
• Make contacts early on
• Unexpected Things:
• Somehow get up, go to school, teach, don't let them know your own problems
• Use your own self as personal stories to benefit them
• Students have problems
• Deal well with rumors
• Elementary
• Sat back and learned
• Teacher was all about planning
• Had sketchbooks and did drawings (about two per day)
• Lesson on Eastern Artwork
• Scope and sequence with cooperating teacher
• Wayne Thiebaud
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• Different textures for different things
• Coy fish on top
• Already had learned texture and some of the materials
• Crinkle tissue paper
• Clay coy fish tea pots
• "Be quiet and we'll do clay"
• Printmaking for 3rd grade
• Do things you find passion in
• 4th grade did scratch art
• No erasing

edTPA OBSERVATIONS

• Introduce teacher for observations
• Treat it like any other day
• Tell students she might ask questions 

MAIN POINTS

• Ask meaningful questions that go somewhere
• "Why do you say that?"
• "What do you see that makes you say that?"
• Be flexible in how you teach things
• Make connections and be relatable, but be professional
• Do homework on the subject
• Find passions in the lessons being taught
• Think about what you NEED to convey
• Be clear with directions and what was expected
• Struggle happens
• Be consistent with persona 
• Foreshadow problems
• Talk through problems with cooperating teacher
• Own the classroom
• Have fun