The Art of Reading

Teaching in my content has been an amazing experience. I feel completely in my element. I have five classes that I teach: Drawing, Painting, Fibers/ Ceramics, Photography, and Art 1. In all the classes we incorporate lteracy before we start a hands on project. Usually we pass out handouts that give a background or history of what we are studying. The handouts range from history of techniques to brief backgrounds on artists. Later at the end of the lesson slash project we test the students on the knowledge they have aquired. Besides just giving the students the handouts and letting them read them, we go over them in class to make sure that everyone understands what the handout is about. This helps those students who dislike reading to still get the information. Throughout the lesson we give out other handouts/ worksheets that have the students use and apply the information we have already given them. We also give out vocabulary words every week of words that play a big role in their respective subject. Once again we read the words and the definitions outloud to the students. So my host teacher has stated that since she has been doing this, there has been an increase in the student's grades. Going over terms also helps the students understand concepts in class and causes less questions of what does that word mean. All in all I am very excited about teaching and can not wait to teach more.