My most influential courses I have taken were art courses at the University. These courses were really beneficial to my learning because my teachers had respect for both me and my prior subject knowledge, and they helped me focus my attention to skills and techniques that would benefit the quality of my work. I always felt like my teachers had clear expectations of how my work should improve, and made it obvious to me what elements weren’t working. It’s a delicate balance between giving praise and respect, and giving critical, honest input. Receiving respect for my work while simultaneously given critique on how to improve my art gave me a lot of motivation to make more successful work.
My cooperating teacher already has established a great sense of community with her students and the school. She makes it very clear what is expected of the students at the beginning of lessons, but continues to follow up with these expectations with each student individually. The ability level of the students is very diverse in some classes, so it’s very beneficial to those students who need a little more guidance to talk with the teacher individually to keep focused on expectations. My cooperating teacher has a very similar style of follow up as I do, and it’s been really helpful to see how she talks with each student. It’s given me a much better idea of how to vary discussion with students with different ability levels.
When I start teaching lessons that I’ve written, I think it will be easier for me to be very clear what my expectations are because it’s my own lesson. It’s been had to tell students what is expected of them because I’m not grading their assignments. I definitely plan of drafting a rubric for grading/evaluating each project so students can have expectations clearly listed for them.
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