Catch up
This is going to be a catch up of the last few
weeks as I have been a bit remiss on keeping this blog up-to date, in the past
few weeks of the college placement I have been working with a combination of A
level students and Btec fist and second year classes, having spent time with
all the photography classes myself and the other PGCE student have decided to
split the courses with him taking mostly Btec and myself taking the majority of
A-Level, this has lead on to myself and my mentor discussing the As class and
me devising a lesson and PowerPoint to be delivered on the subject of David
Hockney and the photo joiners, this been an area of photography I last visited
in my A-level this left me with an initial feeling of dread however I have
discovered a chance for myself to learn new information and theory’s and
introduce these to my class on the whole it became a rather enjoyable
experience.
The second week after observation I arrived in
to college to discover that he tutor who has been team teaching with myself on
the visual studies class on a Wednesday morning where off sick leaving me with
a class that I had no lesson plan for or scheme of work available luckily the
other visual studies tutor lent me a rough lesson plan and the class went on
with out a hitch this has really built up my confidence with this class that
had previously been a worry with their behavior. The class was so easily lead
that I believe that this will be the class that I will have my first in house
observation despite expressing worries to other members of staff on how to deal
with this class.
The following day I was to experience a
photography trip to London; this consisted of taking small groups around the
national portrait gallery and other galleries that they felt might be of
interest this was a baptism of fire for myself two coaches full of students in
the capital. Despite the possibility of a major disaster it was a excellent
lesson on the behavior of the classes and how far students could be trusted to
behave in such a different environment.