Disciplinary Question

Describe a disciplinary issue that you have encountered with either a student or parent? How did you handle it?

I have had small issues with this before but never in my own classroom. Just the other day a little boy in my 2nd grade class colored on his chair with crayon and I found it so I asked him if he did it and why he did it. I approached him nicely and quietly so that I would not draw attention to him from the the students. I wanted to understand why he did it and explain why that was not a good thing to do in my eyes. He might have thought it was pretty so I didn't want to discourage him but I wanted to make him understand it was not ok.

ANDI WOJNOWSKI edTPA/Student Teaching Advice

Andi is awesome.
            I just want to go home and get started on my edTPA and perfect everything. I want to plan over the summer to have 2 different units to have ready before I student teach. She reminds us to take notes constantly and to record everything you do! She was very organized. It is important to finalize things as you go, don't just do something half way then try to get back to it latter. You should be able to check things off as you go.

It is important to get to know other staff members. Shack their hands introduce yourself, get numbers and emails for staff.
She handed out very helpful handouts that have advice on them. Get binders to help keep organized in student teaching and edTPA.  Academic language you should get down well so you are able to teach your students and be fluent and ready to answer questions. Get involved and work with other teachers to try and help your students better.

Commentary should reflect on how you taught the students to learn the objectives. What did you say or do to help them understand the objective so that you knew that they understood.

You have to focus on 3 different students and document their work throughout the unit!
Get an iPad, video camera, or something to record with so that you can record your lessons. (You might want to get your own camera or check with the school that you are at to see if they can rent you a camera)

Make project samples for each lesson your CT does. Take any kind of free stuff! Take lesson plans and handouts.

(Acrobat-File-Create-Combine files into single PDF) Might need to download (Flip for Mac)

Have a student teacher binder!
Do NOT tolerate misbehavior! Classroom management is the toughest part for most people. You can be firm but nice!
Do ALL edTPA things in the FIRST placement so that if you forget something or mess it up a little then you can do it over in your second placement!  Everything will take twice as long as you think it will. Have something extra for them to do if you have extra time! Watch the CLOCK!!! 


Its ok to be scared and you will have bad days where you second guess yourself. GO there for the kids not for yourself. 

Trey King Fall Creek First Year MS/HS Art Teacher

Trey King came in and taught us how to bring a sense of humor to our classroom. He talked about how we should always have high standards for our students to challenge them to be their best. It is important to do projects that interest the students and makes them want to do art. He also stressed the importance of file organization on your computer. It is important to be the influence for your students and not focus so much on control. He talked about how it is important to have rubrics for the projects and make them available to students and their parents. It is important to get to know your students but not to be too friendly, ask them age appropriate questions about their weekends or family lives. Technology is important in todays classroom and also keeps the students interested. When student teaching it is important to let yourself fail and learn from them. (Notes from class are below)

PDP= Professional Development Plan (after 3 years you need to get this professional license)

Do FIle Management NOW!

- Decorate your Resume

Expectations
- Set them high but be open
- Make the best of your experience and be flexible
- Influence the students to make them WANT to do art

Lesson Plans
- Look on Pintrest, youtube, Lesson Plan sites, and any other resources you can to learn and better yourself
- Have examples

Classroom Management
- Student teaching is a crash coarse to teaching, you can try to mimic them but you need to learn from it. Nothing can prepare you for the real thing.
- It is about influance not control
- Consistency, Confidence, and Consequence

Cooperating Teachers
- Embrase it and get everything you can out of your teachers

University Supervisors
- They are the Best

High School vs. Elementary
- Talk to them about their lives and weekends
- Get to know your students
- Learn their names!
- You need to be respected, but you have to earn it
- Micro-managing at Elementary level
- Elementary are excited to be there but high school needs more motivation

What did I learn?
- I want you to fail to learn from your mistakes to make you better.
- You are going to make students cry
- Have a good relationship with your school counselor
- Get to know other staff members and cooperate with them and figure out how to solve problems and make them better
- Art teachers often become the confidants of the students (You are the one they go to)

----Put a QR Code on your resume (Digital Footprint)----
- How do you use technology in the classroom
- E-Portfolio
- Instegram
- Twitter
- I-Pad
- Blender
- Google Sketch up

Students excitements and concerns:
- Angry Parents
- Inspire Creativity
- Excited to meet students
- Fear of Failing
- Modify lessons to students with special abilities
- Building relationships
- Fear of Classroom Management
- Being comfortable in the classroom (when does it come easy) Fear of the time that leads up to that point
- Fear of favoritism
- Excited to see organization
- Fear of the unknown (lol)
- Excited to focus on teaching and career
- Fear of stepping on Cooperating Teachers Toes
- Excited to teach, relationships that build for teachable moments
- Fear of the students that are unmotivated and at risk students
- Excited to be a real teacher with your own room
- Fear of lesson plans
- Excited to be there the entire day!

- Have Rubrics!!! Show Parents!
- Classroom Management will come over time
- Move around the room
- Use Humor!
-  Have at LEAST 5 Good Ones at each level! Move grade levels around (use same lesson for all grade levels!)
- Grading is time consuming
- Sketch Book Assignment every wednesday
- Make a final