Lesson Reflection

Overall I am mostly satisfied in how the lesson went. Together Michelle and I worked hard and made a lot of preparations prior to the day of our lesson. I think this showed through during the presentation. I agree with all of the suggestions written on our observation forms. I think the most important change would have been to warn students about the thinness of the newspaper. During student’s work time I believe they would have been less frustrated if they had been given warning. During the demonstration Michelle should have spent more time showing students what they could do with the pastels (blending and building colors upon each other). Maybe both of us could have shown the students various techniques. There could have been more improvements during clean up time. You’re right about having students do more rather then the teachers doing the majority of clean up. For next time I will have to come up with a better method of cleaning up. This experience has been very helpful. I understand that the class is limited with time but it would have been more helpful if we could have taught a lesson plan alone rather then in pairs. As time goes on and as I spend more time in classrooms I think I will start feeling more and more comfortable while leading lesson plans.




I meant to include this earlier but here is the peer-evaluation Michelle and I had students fill out after the completion of our lesson at Beacon High School. The answers we received were all positive!

Project/Teacher Evaluation

Michelle Brand and Lauren Hutton

Please honestly answer all of the questions with as much information as possible. It will be really

helpful to know everyone's feedback about our project for future lessons along with student

teaching. Feel free to write on the back for additional comments. Thanks!

1. Overall what are your opinions about the project? What didn't you like about it? What did you

like about it? Did you learn something new?

2. Do you think the way we instructed the class was successful? What worked? What should have

been different?

3. If you had to rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 how well do you think you did on this project?




Please explain your answer.

Ideas for Unit???

Our unit lesson plan is due in about a month. I know I should start brainstorming ideas now so I don't get behind. The overall theme of the unit will be bring hybridization into the classroom. In this particular context this means creating art on objects that are not commonly used in the art classroom or in the artwork. Essentially the art is hybrid because it is something new and combines to different things. I'm going to have to do a lot of thinking to develop a unit but right now I'm stuck!

But here's some easy tips I found on writing lesson plans

Themse Based Lesson

Michelle and I presented our theme based lesson to the class this week. The lesson was called "Responding to the News." Here is the lesson overview: "This lesson asks students to respond to a news publication while using the influences of Faith Ringgold and Robert Rauschenberg to create a hybridized artwork on newspaper."



Overall I am very satisfied with the way our lesson went. The class seemed to enjoy our activity and classroom leadership qualities. We began with going over hybridization revisiting the artists Faith Ringgold and Robert Rauschenberg. Students established Ringgold's themes as personal, community, and cultural connections and Rauschenberg's as current events and political. Choosing one of the artists to work with students were instructed to pick a newspaper article. They were to incorporate text from the article and make an illustration using charcoal and/or chalk pastels. Below is the bulletin board Michelle and I made prior to giving our lesson.

Field Work

This semester I am completing my final fieldwork placement at Beacon High School in Mrs. Duke's classroom. After this semester I have a year to finish my BFA then time for student teaching! It seems to far away but I know time will fly. Anyway I am partnering with Michelle at Beacon High School. Here is the schedule of our day.

Period 1- Advanced Ceramics
Period 2- Prep
Period 3- Studio Art
Period 4- Study Hall
Period 5- Digital Art I
Period 6- Studio Art
Period 7- Lunch
Period 8- Digital Art II


Michelle and I have chosen to work with the advanced Ceramics class for our lesson plan. Our lesson plan involves sculpting objects from nature then building an environment in which the object will be placed in. We were getting our artist influences from Andy Goldsworthy and Louise Bourgeois. Here are some examples of there work.