Week 4- 1st of October

This weeks Visual Arts input opened with looking at “adult” colouring sheets. We discussed how the colouring sheets provide you with a problem that you have to solve and that every art lesson should work like this, children should be solving a problem using their own creativity and imagination. I thought that this was a really useful to remember for future practice because it shows that art lessons should still be making children think critically like they would in literacy or maths lessons.  We then moved on to look back at our Scottish Highland paintings from last week. We were going to spend some time reworking our paintings using chalks and coloured pencils. By using dry materials on top of the paint meant we could enhance the image and add definition that couldn’t be done by wet paint. We then combined text and image together by writing over the painting with either memories or feelings that we had about the highlands. I’ve never visited the Highlands so I didn’t have any personal experiences to draw upon so I used a poem about the highlands instead. The poem was very descriptive and had a lot of feelings and emotions so I thought that it would be very fitting for the exercise. We also were not allowed to write in a straight line, we were to follow the curves of the painting and be creative with our words. I found this input very interesting as it showed direct links between art and literacy and how it can so easily be implemented into the classroom. This could also be used for a creative writing exercise as a stimulus to start a story or as a way to illustrate a story already written.

Our drama input was a micro teaching session. This was where small groups thought the whole class different drama conventions and focussed it around a theme. In particular, I really liked the group that centred their session around a storybook because they managed to create strong links between the story and the drama conventions. An example of this was where they used the main character of the story as the role for ‘Teacher in role’. Our micro teaching isn’t until the next week so we were only watching and participating this time. Teaching drama is something I’m really looking forward to as drama has been a passion of mine for years so to be combining it with teaching will be a quality personal learning experience. Also, this will be one of my times being the teacher and leading the class. I’ve had experience working with children one-to-one but never taking a full class for a lesson. However, I don’t feel nervous or anxious about it because it’s only in front of our peers which makes it a more relaxed experience. It also means that you can enjoy yourself more because it’s more on the informal side.

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