KEY BLOG POST 1: Research

Over these past two weeks I have learnt a lot in a short space of time we have crammed a lot of information in in such a quick time this has been very interesting to me. To begin this unit we have been concentrating on making good lesson plans which can be used in actual real life settings. These sessions have really helped me understand important things that are needed for lesson planing. I have benefited from making numerous amount of lesson plans and then getting feedback and making them better. We started off by using very basic ideas on planning a lesson and using simple workshop plans underestimating what young students can produce. After feedback from tutors and our peers we realised we need to thing outside the box and not use such obvious ideas. I decided to use my own practice and my own uni work as inspiration but making it fit in with a school class and making it age appropriate. I think using something difficult and then toning down the difficulty and working backwards could help create a interesting workshop.

 I have been looking to pinterest and youtube on ideas about little things that could be good to use in a window box that could suit all ages and also be made quickly and in a short amount of time. Also trying out and making products yourself is an interesting way to learn things yourself and make a product that you can teach to others. I have been trying to look for different way to develop ideas that could be suited towards younger children using challenging materials that aren't harmful but is still not something they're used to this has been proven a little difficult as I am not fully aware of what they are capable of.

I have been interesting in learning about good lesson planning and having everything over planned and right down to every minute. This interests me because I am a organised person who enjoys having everything planned and sorted. I would also like to look further into attention span of students and what is a good safe amount of time that they will be able to engage in. I am planning to research the design technology side of teaching further as my own practice is textiles and I feel I would like to specifically teach that side of Art and Design over Art itself as I feel that is something I specialise in more I would also like to try and include a textile aspect if i can and if it caters to the brief for one of the workshops we create. If that isn't possible I think we could include a textile as a material in the workshop.