Teaching Day 5

2 words...

Rough Day

There are lots of reasons why you may not want to teach. And there are lots of reasons why you would want to teach. You can have the best intentions and most optimistic mind going into this field and all it really takes is one kid. One kid that'll make you want to stop and question if you should be doing what you are doing. 

a picture of my friend ian :) who isn't really a kid kid...
but it was a good picture for this post :)

So you sit... and wonder. why why why why.

You get frustrated and question. 

But then you realize. That this student is one of the reasons for being a teacher. 

They are the challenge and they are the ones that need guidance the most. So what to do?

Consider the outside influences.

Consider the people around them. 

Consider EVERYTHING. 

and set that kid up to succeed.

I don't mean just give them the grades. I mean curbing their behaviors so they can succeed. They need to work harder which may mean you need to work harder too! But never give up on them, because sometimes you're the only one that believes. 

Teaching day 4

Value Assignment Project

1. find a 12 x 12 paper

2. get two objects and draw them! 

3. Make sure that the objects go off of 3 sides of the paper. (this makes an interesting composition!)

4. if there is empty space, then fill it with awesome shapes and lines! 

5. split the paper into 4 sections

6. Use 4 different techniques to fill each section with dramatic values! 

Students are evaluated by their RANGE OF VALUE.

They must have a WIDE range of value and 4 different techniques. 

Practice worksheet>>>

Techniques include:

Hatching

Cross Hatching

Ebony Pencil

Color Pencil

Stippling

Scumbling

So this is what the students are doing. It's pretty self explanatory and pretty easy to figure out. It's also easy to elaborate more on! 

Teaching Day 3 & 4

 This week. Has been a long long week... 
Personal Logos

Students all know brands and logos so I decided that for my work sample we'd do our own personal logos. 


Students wrote a "Bio-poem" about themselves and chose words that represent them to illustrate and combine into a logo. 
I wanted students to feel what it was like to make their own logo and the processes.
Unfortunately this lesson didn't go over as well as I wanted it to and I learned that high schoolers can be even more immature than I remember. 

on Day 4 my supervisor attended my class to watch me teach. I was pretty nervous but I think it went alright. Though I did get comments like I was weak, I should be more mean, and I should be louder... I think I'm pretty loud but you know how it goes. 


Students made 5 different logos and picked one to put on their portfolio. 

Student Work>>>

Dremel Time

I found a new hobby :)


So I bought this... because it was suggested somewhere... :D
haha it's an awesome drilling tool and super fun to use. 


So Alex and I went strolling on the "beach" coast thing, "sound" ... yah. and we found lots of awesome cool shells. it reminded me of home (except it was FREEEEZING) 


and this is the result >>> 
dremel + shells = awesomeness! 
It's got a hole at the top to become a necklace :)
I hope to do more creative things with shells so I guess I have to go back to the Seattle area more often ;) 

Teaching Day 2

About me circles. 
This is supposed to be a day project. 
I wanted to get to know the students and I did this project was something I did in High School. 

About me Circle:
1. Think of 5 things that describe you.
2. The whole circle must be colored with color pencil
3.You cannot use words to represent your symbols. If you like baseball draw a baseball. Don't write baseball.
4. Use neat and awesome craftsmanship! 


My example: Things that represent who I am
1. I'm Japanese
2. I love my family
3. I like to write/draw
4. I like animals! (I want a dog)
5. I love bacon... :D
Over acheivers could do more than 5. so my 6 is I love outdoors. :)


Many of the student work turned out super nice! I love it! It is displayed in our foyer just outside our classroom for all to see :D

Teaching Day 1

So I've decided that this will also be a place to update how my classes are doing. :D
Perhaps I'll post some pics of what kids are doing (of course not their actual work... cuz that's not really allowed...) But I'll post examples etc. 


Right now I'm just teaching two drawing classes and helping out in Stashia's painting classes. 


Day 1 (drawing) 
Super fun! I really enjoy teaching!!! :D 
We made name tags in drawing and I really enjoyed talking to everyone. All the students seem like nice kids and I can't wait to teach them actual projects. 

The name tag requirements:
1. Name in bubble or block letters
2. Fill the whole paper
3. You MUST have 6 colors in your name tag


I gave them one color pencil each... 


They had to talk to each other yay!
But they were cooperative and talked and borrowed colors from each other. 


Yay teaching!