Miss Art of Teaching

Our high school offers transition lessons for our local primary school. Every Tuesday afternoon, the local primary brings over their Year 6 students. The students are split off into groups to try a few taster classes. This year I decided to do something different and went with a collaborating design between students. Please check out my previous post in regards to the 'What Lifts You' mural design. What Lifts You   This class activity was very easy to handle. I was given 5 lessons with this class but we pretty much finished by the third lesson. On the fourth lesson, I started giving them another activity to do. I will be getting two new groups and plan to have 3 pairs of wings by the end of the rotations. The primary school students will be taking it back to their primary school to have it on display. I hope students enjoyed working on it and I want them to be proud of their team effort. I'll miss them! Hope to see most of them next year.

Every year we start off with a self-portrait unit with the Year 7 students. I decided to spice things up and take Snapchat selfies of my students. We used the dog filter on Snapchat as it still allowed a reasonable amount of realism to be portrayed in their artworks. I teach 3 x Year 7 classes. Instructions. 1. Take individual photos of students using the dog filter on Snapchat. 2. Print out the photos as A4.  3. Create a grid for students. Photocopy a class set. 4. Using the same grid, photocopy it onto overhead sheets. Make a class set.  5. Attach the overhead sheet over the photo. 6. Show students how to use the grid system. I like to start from the nose. I always print out an example and attach it onto my whiteboard and show them how to follow the grid system. A great artist to introduce is Chuck Close. He uses the grid system in his work.  If students have trouble following the grid system, make them a view finder so they can isolate th...