Reflection #2

What: I have learned from the text is that there are many possible ways teach the arts in class. The arts in class is something that I want to try to incorporate anyway. From the class portion, I found that its not all that easy to get through your lesson plan if your rushed for time. creativity takes time to unfold. So What: That means that when I have a lesson I want to teach, I have to be able to have enough time blocked out so I can encourage creativity and not rush. I can also just try to be flexible and shorten some aspects of the lesson to fit my time frame. Now What: Being prepared in the classroom can be the difference between bad instruction and great instruction. I will prepare a lesson by having the state core standards and objectives met in my instruction. I will then write a lesson plan to satisfy the objective. Once I have an idea, I will collaborate with other teachers to see if I can improve on something for the class or for myself. finally I would go over the lesson to see if it will take up the right amount of time, and if it is engaging for the kids. My perspective has changed toward teaching a lesson, I thought I could just have background knowledge and teach the lesson, but that can create pacing issues, and incomplete lessons. By going through all of theses steps above I hope to have a better experience for myself and for my students. I have been through some bad lessons before and I know they could have been better through a complete lesson plan. That is what I hope to accomplish, great art instruction.