Last Wednesday at my fieldwork placement, I had to teach my lesson to a Studio class of mainly 9th graders. This is pretty much my first time teaching a real lesson to a real class with little to no help from my mentor teacher, so I was pretty nervous.
Upon getting to the school, I had a video that I wanted to set up to show the students (Gnarls Barkley - Crazy, Music video)
but there were obstacles and in the end I was not able to set it up on the projector, but rather I showed a clip of it on my iPhone.
The motivation part went faster than I anticipated, probably because I was pretty nervous. But once I was done introducing the lesson (ink blots and then forming imagery from them), the students seemed eager to participate. It was only when they started that I realized during my demo, I should have stated some guidelines such as, don't simply draw lines or hearts and flowers, but rather try to create shapes that you don't know.
But yeah a few of the students only did hearts and flowers and got bored really easily while some other students made abstract shapes and drew on top of the shapes, which was what I wanted them to do.
I think overall, the lesson went okay. Doing it once with real students allow me to see what modifications I need to consider if I were to plan this lesson again in the future.
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