This morning I was with a year 10 GCSE class working one to
one with a boy. He had to create two sculpture pieces as his final models to
show in his end of year exhibition, running alongside of his art work had to be
a 40 page development sketch book full of artist research, mark making and
drawing work, initial ideas and final ideas all leading up to his final piece,
I found this particular structure plan very interesting as it was so different
to when I was in school doing my own GCSE’S, I felt it was such a little amount
of work to have to complete and was shocked by the whole of the class and there
little amount of interest with what they were doing even them not having much,
I explained how I had double maybe even triple the amount of work that they
have to do as well as no structure plan like they have, they couldn’t believe
it, this made me think again about my own workshop and how the whole day is
going to have to be structured from start to finish, as they aren’t used to
being left free, this goes for all years, and is going to have to be something
I seriously consider when I’m teaching for my assessment as I really want all
the students as well as myself to get the most out of the day as well as the
day running as smoothly as possible no matter what year group I get set to work
with.
The picture above is one of the sculptures I helped paint during this mornings double lesson, The broken ketchup bottle is focused on the artist Andy Warhol, using the colours and style of print/painting that he uses together we mixed up the right shades and tones and finished of this piece of work. It was a great feeling helping someone out, knowing that I was making a positive impact on what grade the student would receive at the end of his project.
This afternoon consisted of being in the textile room, the
first part of the afternoon was with two A level textile girls preparing for their
upcoming exam, this is a real concern of mine, I don’t feel that this subject
is getting pushed as a single subject enough and is just coming under the
department of technology and not many students are even remember you can opt to
choose it as a GCSE subject, because of this they then are forgetting
completely about A level, other subjects could be getting put in front of it
and classed as more important, it’s not being offered or spoke about enough. Another
problem for the textile department that I have picked up on is space and time
of staff, again from this lesson I noticed the great amount of structure for
the two A level students, it got me thinking that for my own workshop I would
like to teach the students more textile techniques so that new ideas are being
introduced to the school, this then might change the percentage of students who
want to do this subject. Here I was able to discuss textiles and the new
project challenges we could bring to the school, with the challenge of developing
the textile part of the school, this was something I really enjoyed as I felt a
massive part of something, my opinion really mattered and was properly being
taken into consideration.
The last part of today was a lesson with a year seven class
who were making sock monsters, this wasn't something I had ever done before, I really enjoyed working one to one with a little girl, putting my very own skills of embroidery to use, I loved helping her make the best sock monster, teaching her new simple applique ideas, she was able to apply them to her work and would be something she could use again in future projects. Together we came up with a plan of what she was going to do for the rest of her textile project including paper and design work, as well as adding cute little extras to her monster such as a dress, shoes and maybe even a cute little string wig of some kind, she was exited to use the ideas I told her and continue with the project in her following next four weeks. (The picture below is a representation of me and my students sock monster.)
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