Welcome to my PME blog. Within this space, I will reflect on the shadowing period of my teaching practice, which follows me in my preparation towards taking my classes alone. I will discuss workshops that take place in the Crawford College, where I can experience the methods of art making that my pupils will experience, seeing through the eyes of both student and teacher. I will also bring my experience from UCC, in which I will reflect on the teaching methodologies that I will use in my own teaching practice. With this blog, I hope to map my progress of this year, and to show the growth that has occurred in both my artistic and teaching practice through the experiences from UCC and the Crawford College.
The first week back after the Easter break and at the beginning of it I feared that without being physically in the school students may loss track of the days and not view what has been posted in Google Classroom. However the response from most students has been positive. The focus of this weeks lessons were reestablishing their drawing skills wherein tone, form, line and colour played essential parts in their lessons. First years were introduced to portraiture, focusing on the nose and eyes. Focusing on the features separately I find makes drawing the face less daunting. I offered to use Google Hangouts to explain the PowerPoint that I had attached to the lesson however one student signed into it. And the two random emails that had not received the code kept sending a request to join the meeting. I've elected not to use it anymore and just to post videos of myself explaining the PowerPoint. Second years and Fifth years had good attendance and were focusing on their prima...