Teaching week

I feel that the first day went well, Jack, Rebecca and I started off with the presentation after introducing ourselves. After this we explained to the kids what we were doing with the things that we produced which was problematic because most of the groups didn't explain enough maybe we did not explain enough or they did not understand fully because I can’t remember if our group asked if they understood, but I think that at least some of the students understood because when we explained again they seemed to know what we were talking about. After an exhausting first day, I had lost my voice from being the person in our group which tells the students to listen.

The next day, we were doing paper maché. The group, being a fiery group, got really involved and enthusiastic but also got really messy. I did say in the demo to take off the excess glue over the glue pots but they seemed to forget this. This meant that all the people in our group were cleaning up accidently spilt glue, refilling glue pots and salvaging peoples work from being water logged with glue and no one was directing the class because we all had our hands full. Towards the end of the lesson, the group pulled together more with help from Toby and we got them to finish and go to break on time but there was a lot of tidying up to do that the students did not do properly or didn’t do because of the lack of time. Toby (our tutor) had to give us constructive criticism and extra help because this lesson was a bit to noisy and chaotic. She also gave us Issy to work with increasing our group from 3 members to 4 which is the amount that the other groups had. After their break we did textile sheets, Rebecca was in charge of giving demos and Issy seemed to gain control of the class and made them quieter but this could also be because we were not doing a messy exiting lesson, it was much more pleasant then the first half of the lesson.

On the final day of teaching we had to disappoint our group because we said that we would be using the computers and we were known as the ICT group but unfortunately they did not have Photoshop. Instead the kids made a design of what they wanted to paint the paper mache horses like, and then Jack gave a demo on mixing paint to get different colours because lots of them did not know how to do this. Then finally they painted their horses.

The kids were sad to see us go, i was happy with the work the students produced. Also for some reason all the students really liked cleaning up.