(8 hours)
January Wednesday 15th
Classes are a mix of grade 9-12
1st hour
Graphic Design with the photography teacher
This class is starting to wind down because the next day is the last day of class. I walked around the room most of the class and helped people add more depth to the project. One of the students was making a large serpent like creature and I was able to help him create it with the knowledge I had from having an internship at a reptile zoo. This was a nice class as i am starting to get more comfortable with getting in next to the students and asking them about their works or asking them if they have any other work to work on other than playing on their phones. This is becoming a very good experience and chance to feel like what a high school teacher might feel like.
2nd hour
Pottery with the pottery head teacher
Today the class was very relaxing, we had to clean for the first ten minutes but then it was free time. I had fun going around and asking students about their work and what they liked about the class. They liked how you could create things and bring them home, also how they could make their own dish ware and other little things like ring holders. I also helped one student with a paper that was due for a different class, i helped her with the grammar and some spelling mistakes. It was a very interesting class and I learned about how pottery teachers use their prep time. They like to make clay or clean the wheels and organize the studio.
3rd hour
AP art with the fine arts teacher.
This class wanted to do their own work with no help this hour. So for my time I started to work on my lesson plan. I will be teaching the Graphics class of last hour how to animate a 3d box. The teacher in the AP class helped me figure out what time this class would run since it is a half day. I ended up with a lesson plan like this:
Goal: Introduction to 3D animation
Steps: *Move the character
*Key frame
*Quick time it
Introduction | 3 mins. 9:47
-Name
-Rules
-Video
Instruction | 6mins. 9:53
-start program
-tab animation
-Move
-Keyfame
-TimeLine
-Camera
-Save
Work time | 15 mins. 10:08
-Questions
Instructions | 5 mins 10:13
-Quicktime
4th Hour
Intro to Art with the photography teacher
This was the last day for this class so the students were almost all done and had free time. While I helped some choose new colors for different pieces of art most of this class was communicating with the teacher about how they create their lesson plans and how i should help the graphics kids learn the program better. What I came up with was to make a small cheat sheet so they could peek at it while they animate a box moving across the ground. I also started to make a Resource Sheet to leave with the teachers so that students that were interested in this field had some websites and ideas of programs they should look into.
5th hour
Drawing with the fine arts teacher
This drawing class we cleaned for the class so I showed them what tools to scrape paint and which tools to use to wash ink out the best. I was more going to janitors across the school and getting more supplies like magic sponges and more cleaning fluid. During this time i was allowed to look around the faculty lounge in the para wing.
6th hour
Graphic Design with the fine arts teacher
This class I got to go around and help the students that were listening to the lesson and learn how to be more firm with the less interested students.