Community of Peace Academy, Teacher Ms. Lor, High School, 6 hours.
Minnesota Museum of American Art, 3 Hours.
This week was great! I had my two sites in the same day! So it was a bit busy but worth it. I learned a lot during this two sites because it made me decide what I want for my future.
In CPA, I mostly, in each class, I handed out clay for the students. And when they needed more clay or material for their clay, they had to come to me to get it, that way it was organized and clean. So the students wouldn’t have a lot of things in their table. Down below there are pictures of the materials they needed and the mask they used to create their mask. The project that they started was creating a mask through their culture or their expression of a mask. Which is awesome and super amazing. That way for the students can express what they want on their mask that reflects themselves. And I saw some students sketch on what they want their mask to look like when its finalized. Ms. Lor took out more mask and I found a mask that was like a fish and I wanted to join the students project and play around with the interesting fish mask, I love fishes. I also helped students to understand how to use water and how to smooth the edges and the surface because they weren’t sure why they needed the water. But overall, I am very excited to see their final mask!
After classes were over, Ms. Lor checked my teaching planning backward and my project that I wanted to teach the students next week. She gave me feedback and explained what works and what won’t work. At first it seemed a lot of information but when I looked closely it wasn’t a lot but a little. I am very nervous and excited at the same time to teach the freshman’s and sophomores.
In MMAA, I helped an artist again! Suzanne Thao is a teaching artist teaching Hmong Embroidery. This week was her last class in which I was very sad. The way she taught me and telling her story made me want to push even harder for what I want to see come true. I really enjoy hearing her story on how she learned. At first she didn’t have the patience or motivation to do it but now she is a mentor teaching to younger youth of the Hmong community but also to people who want to learn Hmong Embroidery. This week, she had more students. Which was exciting to see how she would teach them instead teaching one student. And she did amazing! Down Below are some pictures of the class.
Suzanne Showing How to Embroidery
Suzanne is teaching a young woman on how to do embroidery and where to use the needle and where to go with it.
Suzanne Telling Her Story
Suzanne is telling everyone about how she learned to make her Embroidery’s and the struggles of starting.
In CPA, I learned that I wanted to teach in programs for the community for my future and for MMAA, I learned that bringing something you love and important, you can bring it among others and share it. Which can be educational among others. I want those two things for my teaching.
The questions I have is what should I do my future education for teaching? And What can make a project for students be interesting and educational? And Why that project? Where do teachers get their ideas to create their projects that they will be teaching the students?