Archive for month: February, 2015

Today was the start of a four-day week. I’m looking forward to the four-day weekend as it will allow me to complete a lot of work related to my Student Teaching and my Undergraduate Thesis. I’m hoping to complete a good amount.

Today was kind of the first time I was able to see some artwork from the AP students. My cooperating teacher announced to the class that she will no longer be assigning work because the students should be focusing on fulfilling their AP requirements. She’s expecting them to independently complete their artworks, photograph them, and submit them to the CollegeBoard website for credit. Because the students should be creating their own artwork for their Concentrations and Breadth, my teacher does not want to complicate the process with assignments.

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Today was the last day this week that my cooperating teacher will be here. I would say that it was a pretty standard day. There weren’t any major challenges, but there weren’t really many highlights, either.

Today, the Art I students began to carve their linoleum for the printmaking unit. This continues to scare me because I don’t trust some students with the sharp linoleum cutters. Although the students used them successfully for the eraser prints, I fear that there may be injuries with the linoleum as it’s harder to cut and more difficult to work with. Even students were commenting today that the linoleum was much more difficult than they were expecting and that they were having difficulties. I noticed one student with a drop of blood on his hand, but when I questioned him about it, he said that he was fine. There were several times when I jumped at a student to stop them from cutting because their hands were directly in front of the blades and moments when I caught a student grabbing a linoleum cutter from my teacher’s desk without being instructed about how to use it with the bench hook. I’m so scared that I won’t catch someone using the tools incorrectly at some point and slip, we’ve got blood. I don’t deal well with blood myself, so I’m worried to come across it.

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Today was another basic day, but for some reason the Art I classes have seemed much more rowdy than they ‘ve been in the past. Today during 5th Period, we especially had an issue.

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