Art Show
I am really impressed with how well the Art Show transpired. My students and their parents seemed to be very impressed and pleased at their achievements. I am amazed at the quality of art and the diversity of the art in our show. With this I say way to go everyone; we all deserve a round of applause! I also want to say a special thank you to Jodi, Dena, Tracy for your help with getting my art together and getting it on the pole; I really appreciated your help, so Thank-you.
So now to showcase myself. I would say I contributed in 2 major ways for the art show. One I would say that having my students do an art lesson, picking only 5 of those pieces of art, sending out the invitations, following up the invitations with a phone call to the parents, and then being their for my students at the opening is a contribution worth mentioning (though it is no different from many others in the class). With out all of us doing this there would not have been an Art Show. I’ve already discussed my grappling over what to have the students do for the show so I won’t go into that again. I found the picking of the art somewhat difficult, but not as difficult as I thought it could be or some others may have found it. I went in with the opinion that it is not wrong to only choose 5 students from the group. Although some could argue that it fosters competition, feelings get hurt and so on, I feel that students need be recognized individually as well as collectively, that they should be honoured when they excel, and students (people in general) need to be able to accept not always getting what they want, not always being in the limelight, and showing joy at other peoples success (not just their own). When I set out to pick the pieces of the show I laid them all out on my living room floor (what a mess that made, little confetti pieces everywhere) and looked them over without knowing who made which window. I picked on this premises as well. I looked for little creative touches, aspects that were different, evidence that instructions were followed, and ones that were aesthetically pleasing / caught my eye. This took time, but it wasn’t as difficult as I thought. I was surprised at some of the students that got picked however, they weren’t ones that I thought would have been picked (yes a biased statement, but at least it was acknowledged). When I went to school and told my cooperating teacher who I had chosen I was a little disheartened that she suggested I change some of these because “their parents wouldn’t come anyway”. Despite my hesitancy in doing this (especially because of my philosophy behind thinking it is ok to only honour a handful of students) I bent to the thoughts of my teacher. At any rate, I did find it harder to face the students and tell them I couldn’t honour them all and here are the students I’ve chosen – I wussed out somewhat by doing it Friday afternoon on our last day of practicum, but I did it nonetheless.
I am really impressed with how well the Art Show transpired. My students and their parents seemed to be very impressed and pleased at their achievements. I am amazed at the quality of art and the diversity of the art in our show. With this I say way to go everyone; we all deserve a round of applause! I also want to say a special thank you to Jodi, Dena, Tracy for your help with getting my art together and getting it on the pole; I really appreciated your help, so Thank-you.
So now to showcase myself. I would say I contributed in 2 major ways for the art show. One I would say that having my students do an art lesson, picking only 5 of those pieces of art, sending out the invitations, following up the invitations with a phone call to the parents, and then being their for my students at the opening is a contribution worth mentioning (though it is no different from many others in the class). With out all of us doing this there would not have been an Art Show. I’ve already discussed my grappling over what to have the students do for the show so I won’t go into that again. I found the picking of the art somewhat difficult, but not as difficult as I thought it could be or some others may have found it. I went in with the opinion that it is not wrong to only choose 5 students from the group. Although some could argue that it fosters competition, feelings get hurt and so on, I feel that students need be recognized individually as well as collectively, that they should be honoured when they excel, and students (people in general) need to be able to accept not always getting what they want, not always being in the limelight, and showing joy at other peoples success (not just their own). When I set out to pick the pieces of the show I laid them all out on my living room floor (what a mess that made, little confetti pieces everywhere) and looked them over without knowing who made which window. I picked on this premises as well. I looked for little creative touches, aspects that were different, evidence that instructions were followed, and ones that were aesthetically pleasing / caught my eye. This took time, but it wasn’t as difficult as I thought. I was surprised at some of the students that got picked however, they weren’t ones that I thought would have been picked (yes a biased statement, but at least it was acknowledged). When I went to school and told my cooperating teacher who I had chosen I was a little disheartened that she suggested I change some of these because “their parents wouldn’t come anyway”. Despite my hesitancy in doing this (especially because of my philosophy behind thinking it is ok to only honour a handful of students) I bent to the thoughts of my teacher. At any rate, I did find it harder to face the students and tell them I couldn’t honour them all and here are the students I’ve chosen – I wussed out somewhat by doing it Friday afternoon on our last day of practicum, but I did it nonetheless.
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