Fieldwork

Last week at Rondout Valley High School, our mentor teacher let me and Jen put student work on display.  She also let us see how the students were being graded and talked with us about some of the works.  The students made self-portraits using contour lines and wrote a couple of paragraphs about their work.  Their written work was displayed along with their self-portraits.

This week, Jen and I did a demonstration of drawing a face.  Jenn demonstrated the block-in method of outlining basic features and filling them in with more detail.  I demonstrated outlining the proportions of the face.  The demonstrations were based off of the original slideshow that our mentor teacher was going to use to introduce the lesson.  The portfolio development class that we taught takes place in a shorter period than the others.  Most blocks are over an hour long, but the second block of the day is called the skinny.  It is only a half hour long.  We decided to skip a powerpoint and only do the demonstrations so that the student could start their projects.   Our demonstrations took ten minutes, leaving the students almost twenty minutes to work.  As they got started, we walked around the room and gave the students advice if they seemed to be struggling.  Overall, the lesson was a success and the students got a good start on their self-portraits.