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1 Deireadh Fómhair 2018


Class: 1Ealaín– 4.1
Time: 10:20 – 11:40         (double period)
Date:  01/10/18
School: Coláiste Choilm (GaelCholáiste)
Mentor: Emilie Doyle

Due to the majority of the class being absent from a school related activity, choir practice, the previous class, the co-operating teacher decided not to move on to cross contour until the rest of the class had caught up. We won’t move on to cross contour drawing until next week. I found this to be a very good idea, it allows for the pupils who missed out on the last class to catch up. This means that all students have the same opportunity to progress. The co-operating teacher decided this would be a opportunity for peer teaching. The students who were present in the previous class thought their peers what had occurred in the previous class. There some giddiness from the students while they were teaching, which was to be expected. Once all pupils had caught up they continued to do contour line drawings. Some students have difficulty remembering that there is no shading involved with contour drawing. This is when the co-operating teacher decided to put up the PowerPoint presentation on contour drawing to remind the pupils what is involved with contour drawing.
Foclóir – Dictionary

Líníocht Léanúnach - Continuous line drawing
Dul Thar Chéile – Overlapping
Líníocht Imlíne – Contour line drawing

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