Key Post 3

Key Post 3

With unit x coming to an end I can clearly say that I have really enjoy this year’s unit x. although throughout the unit I had felt many positive and some negative thoughts my experiences through this year’s unit x had been truly been unexpected.  Form this unit the one thing I have grown strong in is my confident. Confident was something that I have always been negative on however if I were to go into art and design teaching I mist definitely need to work on my confident. Which is exactly what this unit has helped me on my confident in talking in front of everyone and working in group sharing ideas has developed so much. A lot of my confident gained during my day in DACA till the end of my DACA workshop. DACA was an experience where I had discover what it is like when you are a teacher. I learnt the becoming a teacher comes with huge responsibility towards students and other faculty staff members, you have to have your very own stand throughout the years of teaching and developing to more experience. As I know DACA was mixed range of secondary and college students, through my week at DACA I was inspired from my own discovery on from how much I enjoyed working with secondary students more than college students. I believe the reason behind this is that I have always thought as secondary school student are more challenging and exciting to work with than college student. Through DACA I am definitely sure that college student have their own interest of how they would like they art to be where as secondary school students are all different age group which means to is the more range of students the more different creative art is produced.

From unit x I truly feel that I felt engaged in every workshop that I have participated was really useful to me and beneficial. However I feel that if I come to the workshop that I have missed I would have known more about educational students with disability more. This is because whilst I was in Daca I did feel the teacher concern over the student with disabilities. I guess this really important in teaching as a teacher should know what and how to handle student with disabilities, I truly feel that myself not being part of these workshop have made a effect on my unit x.

From the entire Unit x I feel that I have mostly achieved in my learning outcome from the unit x show case event and my favourite the micro teaching session. Although my micro teaching session outcome was with mixed reviews I am strongly to say that I have achieved the learning outcome through micro teaching. This session helped come across own how to deliver a workshop, what are my aim and learning outcomes are and most importantly how teaching a workshop would always be lessened planned and fully prepared. However I enjoyed the unit x show case event more the reason for this is because I thoroughly enjoyed all the hard work from all of the mmu students. Although we were two different groups the idea of sharing our ideas and voting on every discussion and decision we made having to combine our final outcome together for the event went really well and strong. Overall the show case event really well we got good feedback from what you think of unit x and y. If I were to do unit x again I would definitely be more organized in turning to all of the workshops and show development of my confident through expressing my though and ideas.

 

ShowCase Event

Unit X Exhibition Event:

For the unit x show case event the entire mmu educator students had a meeting together and expanded on the ideas of what we all can do for the exhibition. A lot of the mmu students had many different ideas and themes.
The groups main aim is too let the audience know.....

 

What is unit X ? and Why would you do it?

 



 

 

After a long discussion the entire group went with UNIT X and WHY? However we all decided to have a combination of our DACA workshops, this will show the audience what we had produce throughout the period of unit x educator. Examples pictures, the mark making boiler suits, the T shirts etc.

Unit X Final Show:

 



Deliver Workshop to Daca

DACA Work Shop: Mistake Mark Making

Today was the big day, MMU students delivery mark making workshop to DACA day. All the mmu student had arrived early to Darwen. I felt that that we all were really good with punctuality in time management. well has the day began for our workshop all of my group were ready and set will all the resource we need to for our mistake workshop.


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These are two before and after photographs of all the

resources my groups mistakes mark and making workshop.



After we got all the students in the group got all of them in circle and doing an exchange introduction with them.

• Student in a circle exchanging introduction and introduction to the presentation of Mistake mark and making and explaining to the students what we aim for them have as final outcome and how the mmu group aim to get engage with them. 

DACA Mistake Mark Making Morning:

The morning at Daca was very exciting for all the student and the member of my group we through enjoyed ourselves. I was feeling rather comfortable in Daca throughout the full morning session has I feel it was probably because my group was very organized on time management, everything was going according to the timetable that we had planned. Also the involvement of the student was working really well, all the students were well engaged into the mark making, all of them were creating really good mark making techniques with use of all the mark making resources, paints and crafts.

 These photographs are showing all the morning session mark making activities, and student mark making boiler suits. The photographs also show mmu show students getting involved with the DACA students and creating mark making.

DACA Mistakes Mark and Making Afternoon Session:
The afternoon session at Darwen was a bit stressful as I felt that  all the student were getting a slightly bored of mark making. However during the afternoon we decided to be more creative and turn the workshop into a art and design sports day by playing games with student such as musical bumps, Simons says, twisters and obstacles course these games were still linked with our mark making workshop because as the student were playing the games they were also creating mark making with the paint resources on to the fabric which was layed on the floor.

These photographs shows all the art and design sports day, the games the mini workshops and the mark and making fabric.

DACA Workshop Preperation

Workshop Preparation:
This week we had to present our workshop to the other group of unit x also with Clair and Anna. My group started with giving out the time table for the day of our workshop.

The time table is mainly mentioning about what activities the group will be presenting for the DACA students. Each activity is time managed well, and each mmu member been given a task to be engaged and well involved in the activity  and leading each session.

In This session the full group had decided what task they wanted to know and what mini workshop will we be doing with the students when it comes to group workshop.
Has I am an Interactive art student and I specialise in Photography and Mixed Media. I had decided to take the task of being the workshop photographer to take pictures through the full day in DACA. For my group workshop the Interactive students decided to performance workshop with student but linking it with mark making.

DACA Workshop Trail Run:
  After giving out all the hand outs to everyone we did a trail run on our workshop in DACA.
The trail run went really bad I felt everyone was really confused with what was going on. They was a lack of preparation and organization. The rest the other group students and Clair and Anna could see that we were really confused, so with they help my workshop group realized that it is important to know we gave to work on time table and preparation.

So The next day all the group gathered and had a full day meeting working on our timetable and our workshop activities.

All the resources collection for mark making:



















New Timetable and Lesson Plan:

 

Unit x Key Blog Post 2

Key Blog Post: 2

So far unit x has been an interesting experience, I feel that I have been very interactive during my time in DACA.  Regarding the workshop that my group have to delivery in DACA we had many meeting resolving around the workshop on the activities, games or how we wanted the year 9 students to freely express themselves in art. Throughout the meeting for our workshop they were many advantage and disadvantage to it. The disadvantage to the meeting was my lack of confidence I had found it really difficult to work with group when it come to sharing my ideas, I feel that it particularly my fault as I am not really comfortable with sharing my ideas or working much in groups. However I was really impressed with the idea of how all the group had mark making as a way to express themselves in creative art.the advantage to the meeting was building up my confident, I found this really well that a lot of the group member still have they very own created mark making drawing from their past art and design work. While talking about mark making my confident naturally engaged with the group I shared many ideas of activities which we all can create with the year 9 students. By the group talking about the enjoyment they have in mark making all the group though this was a great idea of turning our DACA workshop from abstracted expression to mistakes mark making. We clearly made our ideas simple for the year nine student easy for them to understand that art and design does not have to be perfect you can always do mistake and be messy and free in art. Another idea from the meeting was that all the group should work with year 9 student and interact with them with inspiring them with our own creative practise for examples textiles mmu student, interactive art student make up they own mini workshop as one of the activities. I strongly believe that this activity was a great idea as it will gave an opportunity to my group of expressing what we all indivualy specialize in.  I am really hoping that our workshop for DACA really work out great for all the student and the teachers there. My Intentions and aim are clear that all mmu student experience a great time at the delivery workshop. Time table for DACA workshop

Before we could delivery our workshop I came across delivering my very own individually micro teaching workshop to the mmu student. However before I can proceed all the mmu students had an examples of micro teaching where we had to follow my unit x tutor Anna instructions and create something from play dough. My creation with the play dough was an inspiration from a ceramics artists called Lindsay Furer. Who I had come across during my college years. I thought of Lindsay Furer because as soon as I touch the play dough I felt like I was touching ceramics clay but softer. As for my own individual micro teaching session I had decided to do an experiment of one the activities from my Daca work shop. One of the activities was to mark make to the music. I wanted to create this micro teaching experiment and hopeful I can develop it to DACA workshop. I feel that my micro teaching experiments went better then I though as the student created really good mark making with the music. However I did receive mixed reviews has some of the students felt that they was too much going on with the music and mark making with eyes closed and opened. Form my micro teaching I do believe that I could have made my PowerPoint more detailed. Overall delivering the micro teaching session I felt positive because my teaching experiment was something that I would definitely talk to my Daca workshop group with and hope not to have the year 9 students as the mmu student felt through my workshop. Overall I am looking forward to my Daca workshop I feel that I am prepared in knowing everything what is going on and all the resources that I need for my workshop.

MicroTeaching Session Plan and Delivery

Micro Teaching Delivery Workshop:

After Anna example of micro teaching, my aim was to present my own micro teaching of Mark Making to the Music.

Planning my Workshop:

• Micro Teaching
• Lesson Objective: Mark Making To The Music

Lesson Plan

Micro Teaching Session Aim:

• Presentation PowerPoint:
• Have all the students engaged in mark making to music with eyes closed and opened with music background.
• Involved students to uses different materials and resources to mark make.

Lesson Objective:

• Make the students understand what mark making is and how to express through music in mark making.

Resources:

• Cardboard
•  Card paper
•  Coloured Paper
•  Tracing Paper
• Charcoal
•  Paint Brushes
•  Pallets
•  Different Colours of Ink.

Music:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4KAKqF4mjE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3WNYhOWobA

Micro Teaching Delivery:

• I started my micro teaching session with my presenting my Expressing Yourself Through Mark Making presentation. Explaining to all the students what I feel mark making is and how I express my self through it. I also showed the students what mark making looks like when you have your eyes closed and open through music.
• After my presentation I gave all the resources to everyone related to my session and clearly explained to all the student to think of a good happy memory and mark make to the music for 3 minutes, I did the same with the students to close they eyes this time and think of a sad memory and mark make to the music.
• I think so far of micro teaching session went really well I was getting really comfortable with all the students. The only problem that I had was with music I feel that I could have worked better with the music more.
• By the end of the micro teaching session all of the students had created really good outcome of mark making they had used the resources really well and experimented.

Micro Teaching Session Feedback:
I got mixed review from my session all of the student were happy with all the use of resources and the presentation. However during the mark making sessions most of the feedback the students felt like they was a lot going on with the background music and mark making with closed eyes. The students learned that it is harder to draw to the music. However they had enjoyed the session with ups and downs.

 

Tutorials session

Tutorial session with Claire:
 To day I had a Tutorial session with Claire regarded on my delivering Micro Teaching workshop. I Basically came up with idea on Mark Making to the music for the Micro teaching. I had explained to Claire what my aims for this theme. I aim to have this session as an experiment workshop to help me develop my workshop which is coming in DACA. In DACA my group plans to do a range of activities of mark making to the music. so I plan to see how it goes with as an experiment with my Micro Teaching.

MicroTeaching Brief and Intro

 

 

Anna Micro Teaching Session:

• The Following week we had a introduction to Micro Teaching. We had to follow Anna instructions and work in pairs and in big groups for the Micro Teaching activates.

• This picture is from the micro teaching introduction from Anna, this session was all about Anna delivering her warm up session on micro teaching in the Art direction' theory. what we had to do in this session is to be In pairs of two. everyone was given four pieces of coloured card, red, green, yellow and blue, as well as a piece of fruit. Anna had given us clear instruction for this task it was to place the piece of fruit onto which ever piece of card we personally think the fruit fitted best on. Farhana and I picked the apple has the fruit, we picked the apple has it reflected to the similar coloured cards which was given to us. However Farhana and I deciding to go with the bright yellow coloured card, the reason for this was because yellow was bright it had reflected with the apple really well, the two colours together was a great colour combination.

Micro Teaching Planning and Delivery Session:

 

 For Anna Micro Teaching session she delivered her workshop by asking everyone individually and make something out of play dough. to me creating something with play dough is similar to creating something with clay in ceramics. my creation with play dough was inspiration from an artists called Lindsay Furer who I came across my college year in art and design ceramics.
After this Anna paired us up with someone and what I had created in my session in micro teaching I had teaching my partner too. we both had to teaching each other of what we had created with play dough.

 

Workshop Sessions

Review On D.A.C.A Experience

Group Talk:
on the first day back the entire unit x educator group all gathered around for a discussion on our experience of DACA. we all engaged with each other talking about our experiences and what we had thought about the school, teachers and students.
 what I had found the most common through out this discussion sessions was the fact and opinions on Darwen and the school.

• In Darwen DACA will not be the only academy school they will be two other academy schools joining DACA which is currently there.
• The DACA academy is shown to be a very strong and positive in Darwen town, its shown outstanding results and outcomes.
• One of the outcomes that I had notice during my experience in DACA is that the academy is giving the students full encouragement and resources that will be helping them through out they academy years and setting them for the student future. I feel this will help the entire town as well as the town pupils and the coming generation of Darwen.
• The disadvantage that I felt in the DACA academy and Darwen for now the town seems to be not going anywhere at all the pupils of Darwen are not putting the full passion and potential into exploring and higher education. most of the Darwen pupil are either living in the town and earning they living however they is a very low number of pupil that have gone outside Darwen to develop and expand them selves into higher education or they careers.

Group Workshop:
Jane McFadden (Head Of Unit X)

The workshop that we had with Jane was a workshop of Jane`s own experiences in delivering creative workshops.

• Jane told us that it was key to have the same amount of fun as the children are when we are doing our workshop.
• when they are being creative its always a good idea to be able to be part of their activities and make the children come in their comfort Zone.

Experiences in schools during Art Workshops:

• Art can make teachers see students in a different way.
• During creating art and design workshops students are always trying to achieve they best in their creation by using they imaginations.

Unit X: Key Blogspot 1

Key Blog Post 1:

What are they key points?

The Key points to unit X educator was basically about students having an opportunity to work as an art and design teachers in an educational school/college. Well the starting of unit x was a preparation for the mmu students for they placements. Darwen Aldridge Community Academy 6 days experience was a very interesting and interactive experience. So far I am confident from unit X that in DACA my aim was work with different ranges of students and teachers.

My experience in Darwen Aldridge Community Academy.

Throughout the days in DACA I have had mixed reviews of positive and negative experiences.  The positive experience that I had come through in DACA, was working with different age group of students such as secondary school and college. My week started with college student who were working on their final art and design projects, with DACA college student I had mixed experiences. Many of the college student were more keen on taking their project more personally and not able to share with the mmu students. I guess maybe the student were coming to the finishing of the project there were much confident on the projects. Although the students were uncomfortable this reminded of my college days as I was also uncomfortable to share about my work with different

tutors. Having to experiences myself this it made me realize that I have to bring the student in their comfort zone by talking about myself and giving them information on further education. This was development for myself and my role in DACA placement. However there are also very good and positive moment with college student to as throughout the week I had supported many college students that were related my creative practise in art and design. I was really comfortable with them as I enjoyed giving them ideas on their final mixed media piece and photographers too. I think my favourite experience with college student was interacting with them about their future plan and artists inspirations. Whereas the secondary student for was a wonderful challenge I really enjoyed working with mixed ranges of age group of students, each student for me was different and very interesting. I really enjoyed the year 7 students, there were really comfortable and good company to work with. I favourite year 7 lesson would be a textiles lesson where all the mmu students were helping the students to make sock puppets. This lesson was an experience lesson for me too has textiles is not my interactive subject however I had learned new skills. The other secondary year group were wonderful too as I worked with all the student throughout the two weeks. I felt my experience with secondary students was inspiring as it diverted my attention to my very own secondary school, whenever I felt difficulty with the students I would go back my school day and think to myself of what would I want. I felt that this is a very good tactics as to work with secondary schools or college student you would want to see what they want or prefer. Overall my days in DACA was a wonderful experience I strongly feel that I still want to go into art and design teaching, especially in secondary school as I really enjoyed working the different ages of students it was a great challenge for and really positive experiences.

Thoughts on Darwen Aldridge Community Academy workshop …

Main part of unit x in educator was to deliver a workshop in DACA, that was the main reason behind our placement in DACA. I think this was a wonderful idea as this most defiantly gave me experience at the place and idea on how organized we have to be during our workshop. The starting of my group’s workshop, the entire group come up with ideas of an abstract expression workshop.  We all decided with abstracted workshop as the one thing we all noticed that the secondary ad college student in DACA need to be freer and express themselves in art. Overall the experiences that I have come across through unit x has been a wonderful journey. I have learnt many new thing throughout my placements and really forward to delivering my very own workshop at DACA.

DACA Week 2 Planning Workshop Meeting

Workshop Planning:

 

Wednesday afternoon was all about planning our full day workshop with year 7 and 9 students. for the afternoon we all had a meeting with Louise about the workshop. All the mmu students were divided into two groups mix with fine art, graphics, Interactive art and textiles students. Once the group were divided my group made a mind map of all our ideas. More or less we were all involved around the idea of mark making. Mark making because we wanted the students to feel free, come out of the comfort zone and be ready to take risk. With this idea we wanted the students to not be scared in experimenting and to feel ok if they experiment goes wrong. over the group came up with idea of a art sports day of abstract expressions. However I know that the ideas will keep on changing to development till the workshop day. I hope everything goes well as it has been till now.

DACA: Week 2: Shadowing a student

Shadowing a Student:

 

 On Wednesday all the mmu students were given one student each to shadow for the morning. I was given a year 10 G.C.S.Es photography student. Liam was working on his current and last years photography exam presentations. Louise introduce Liam to me explaining how he is A star student in photography. I 100% agree with Louise has his work was really good, Liam had everything organized from every presentation slide to photographs. The only thing that Liam needed help on was his annotation and expressing his artists attention. I felt that Liam need to go indept with his annotation and that is what I had helped him on explaining his photography's really well  like the photographs week and strong points and his Photoshop editing skills. Overall I felt the Liam is really good in his skill of photography. The only thing that confuses me is that for a full year he will not be doing photography which his not good in my opinion has it can miss use his skills in photography.
Shadowing Liam was good however I wanted a challenging student to shadow. This is because I wanted to help more to the student who are week in these skills and I could help them with my skill in they certain subject.

DACA: Week 2 :

 

DACA: Week 2

Tuesday Afternoon

 Tuesday Afternoon in Daca was one of my favourite as I really enjoyed working with year 7 student in textiles. Many of the mmu students were in Textiles. we were enough for each of us to have a student each and work with them it was almost like shadowing a student. the year 7 student were making sock puppets. I really loved working with them and also talking generally with them too I felt as its was easy to talk and interact with them from the Sixth Form and G.C.S.E students. I really loved working with one to one students in fact me and Mariam team up and worked with two students and help them through the sock puppets and using our skills also the students worked with us got really comfortable with Mariam and I in talks, they was asking question about college and university. My favourite part of the session was the teacher of the class got us envolved with all the student by telling each mmu student to take over the class and play a game or involve the class in to activities. Going back to the students Mariam and I told them to continue their sock puppets and expand in materials use more such a different fabrics and colours. Overall working with year 7 was great for me I loved the challenge working with them and my self using my textiles skills.

DACA: Week 2 Monday and Tuesday

DACA Week 2 :
Monday and Tuesday:

After the first week in Daca working with Sixth Forms and G.C.S.Es students , this week i asked Louise to interact with year 7 to 9 student. so firstly second week in Daca I spent Monday and Tuesday mornings with year two different set of year 9 group. Both classes were doing the same projects they work was based on creating boards inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. The lesson was planned on the students sticking string on they cardboards using primer to stick layers of tissue paper over the top and then once it was dry they painted sections with watercolour inks. This projects of the students in my opinion seemed to be more of year 7 students standard not year 9. From both days Monday and Tuesday too I felt the same that this projects was not entertaining enough for year 9 they should have project more challenging and entertaining. while I was getting involve in the projects creating boards I was also observing the student claim that this work is for "babies it is no fun". also  the speed that the student were working in to it clearly shows me that their were bored and not really enjoying the lessons. I think that the student were not really enjoying the lesson was probably because the student was not able to expand the use of colours and materials as they were only aloud to use two different materials and colours. however other than this I was really impressed with the teacher end of the lesson activity where all the boarders created by the students were combined altogether for all the class to see and pick which one they liked. I felt this is a really good idea where teacher and students can share they opinions on they dislikes and likes boarders.

DACA: Week 1 Tuesday

On Tuesday I was observing a large group of G.C.S.E photography students who were doing they 10 hours photography exam. The teacher mainly asked us to go around and talk to the student and they exam projects. this part of interacting with student I had found a bit difficult as this group of G.C.S..E students were difficult to handle, they were some students that would talk to me about they projects however I also had some students that were quiet difficult to talk to. however interacting with the student i found it has a challenge it help me get through the student and bring them to their comfort zone to able to talk to me. Many student were really good when they need help on Photoshop or on the exam presentations they would ask and get involved with me by explaining about they projects and what they think of photography. They was on student that I really enjoyed working with. Her project was on natural objects and gradually developed to her 10 hours exam preparations. her work has a photographer was really inspiring and well presented. I think the only thing she was finding difficulty in was her annotations and artists research information.
I guess I really did enjoy this because photography takes me back to my G.C.S.Es days as I was being part of a 10 hours photography exam. Having to experience this long before made it more easy for me to understand what the students were doing and what they aim to have by the end of the exam.