Last Saturday, eleven student-teachers welcomed 134 children to the first session of Saturday School, Fall 2011. There was confusion, and tears, and, by the end of the morning, hundreds of silly grins to testify to a morning well spent. You handled it all like the professionals you are quickly becoming.
This blog is a space for us all to reflect on the experiences we are having as we travel together through the journey that is Saturday School. It is a place to share ideas, questions, concerns, calls for help, insights, frustrations and triumphs. It is a place for our conversations to continue, well beyond the all-too-short and busy time we have to discuss our classes on Tuesday mornings.
More that that, this blog is a place where the first phase of documentation can happen: Where each week, you post photographs from your classes, descriptions of what your students said and did, quotations from class discussions and conversations with or among children–evidence of their learning, made visible on the blog. It is a place for you to pose questions, for yourself and for your colleagues, to consider what this says about art teaching and learning, about kids, about art, and about the ways you can build curriculum on the events you observe in the classroom. It is a place to feature the visible (and audible) traces of learning, to allow us all to think about them together.
I will be adding some links that may help you to consider what to post on your weekly blog entry, and (more important) what to pay attention to so that you will have something to share. Below is one that will help you understand how blogging with other art teachers may be critical to your teaching practice.
Enjoy your second week of teaching. JoePa says that the team always learns the most between the first week and the second. What did you learn last week that you will keep in mind???
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