I have learnt many things over this unit which have opened my eyes to the hard work and dedication that it takes to be a teacher. One of my favourite and main new discovery has to be the lesson planning stage although I enjoyed this I felt it was a very tense and stressful part. I learnt having to over plan and make sure everything planned to the minute was very important and saves from having problems in the workshop and how vital it is to have every stage planned out properly and appropriately. This unit has also eloped me fight my fears and help me to speak to different people and produce workshops for my peers. I have always been frightened of speaking in front of people and talking about my work and by doing a micro teaching session with my peers it has taught me confidence and the positive feedback has helped me develop a liking for speaking and interacting with people. The collaboration of different people has also been interesting for me as its not something I've done before. although sometimes it has been a little difficult managing a large group of people working on one lesson plan I feel everyone played a part and pulled through when the needed to.
I feel there could have been more research going into lesson planning and perhaps a few more days at a high school work shadowing would be good experience and give more insight into what it would be like in a real life setting. Overall I think more preparation time before the two workshops could have been more helpful as they would have given us the chance to produce a better and more efficient lesson plan as we did have a few time issues on both workshops. The high school workshop especially needed longer time planning as it wasn't as straight forward and easy as the primary one. I feel this workshop would have benefited more if we had longer time as we would have been able to plan something that flowed more easier and had more efficient timing.
We did have two other opportunities to work with the stockport festival which was later cancelled and also another workshop which was cancelled also which has been a little disappointing. This unit over all has been very enjoyable although there have been moments when I haven't been sure about where we were supposed to be and where we had a specific area for us to go and work as we had a few problems with our new stockport studios. There were a few minor timetable problems that confused me a little but the unit was mostly straight forward and a lot of fun to do.
By choosing to do College One this has further confirmed my ambitions to become a teacher as I enjoyed working at a high school much more than I expected. The work shadowing was extremely helpful and interesting as it gave me insight into classroom life and also gave me the chance to speak to students and also teachers. I was able to give students advice and help them with their art projects which was something I felt was rewarding as I could help them do better using my ideas and my own experience to aid them. It has also helped me decide what kind of teaching I would like to do after doing some research into both art and design technology I have decided that design technology is something I would be more interested in as Textile design is my specialty and I feel that is something I am confident in teaching.
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