Week 15

Today was my last day of mentorship! I am officially a student teacher now! Everything about today celebrated this transition now that I think about it! Collaborated on developing curriculum for next year with Ms. O and then went to a student teacher send off later in the evening.

During prep and lunch, Ms. O and I completely revamped the curriculum map for Intro to 3D. We collaborated on project ideas, but she is letting me take complete control of this course. I have already created a rough draft of the scope and sequence of the course and pacing chart. I am extremely excited! (Let me put more exclamation points in a addition to the 20 I have already included in the past 8 sentences!!!) It was great walking through the process with Ms. O. I discovered that she and I work in the same way, starting with an overarching theme for the semester, following with project ideas, assessing what standards and course objectives fall into each project, revising projects to make sure we cover a variety of techniques and processes, and then mapping it out. I thought her identity theme she used in past semesters was perfect because it allowed for a lot of student choice and the responses to the project prompts were diverse, but I think the students stayed too surface level with it. To avoid this next semester, I plan to spend a week getting more in depth about what makes up our identities and how we and others may perceive us through readings, reflections, and activities that help students explore their identities. The week will culminate in creating a vision board that they can refer back to throughout the semester to help generate ideas for projects. I hope it works out! I plan to have all of the lessons and supporting materials completed before the start of the semester for Ms. O to review.

I was pretty consumed and excited about developing the curriculum that I didn't work a whole lot with the kids today. I will be back to sub for Ms. Osborne for the last week of school as she if getting knee surgery so I'll be back soon!

I didn't take any pictures of the awesome teapots Ceramics made, but I did take a photo of a project that I loved. It's so beautiful!