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Diehl ElementaryLisa Bodner, Liana Agnew, & Donna Nelson
Contextual Factors • Ranging from nine to fourteen
students typically.
• Very diverse culturally.
• Students in grades six through eight.
• Class time is an hour and fifteen minutes each week.
Use of Class Time
• Warm up/ Ice breaker
• Anticipatory Set
• Lesson
• Review/ Clean Up
First Class• Content: students learned about the importance of visual
advertising, compared sounds to the appearance of cover art, worked with composition, and made their own original album artwork.
• Instructional Delivery: Lecture/ discussion, work, presentation. Pacing of lesson left us with some extra time, discussion reiterated lesson effectively.
• Classroom Management: Discussion guided students through the lesson, waited for students to quiet before speaking eliminated disruption, students became adjusted to class routine so teaching the following lesson was easier.
• Professionalism: Standard procedures were explained to us by the instructor, collaboration was good between Liana and Lisa, looked/ acted professional.
What We’ve Learned
• Learned: Students may be shy about creating personal artwork at first. Lessons need to be hands on more frequently.
• What Worked: Using music as a topic had the students interested, they all had very distinct taste.
• What Needs Improved: Clear instruction and repetition of goals helps students work more effectively.
Second Class• Content: Two truths, Students viewed and talked
about Benin masks and abstraction. Practiced pattern and created their own Benin masks with pattern on 16 gauge aluminum.
• Instructional Delivery: Lecture, demo, work time. Clear procedures, walked through demo to eliminate disruption, pacing was fine, goals were repeated as students worked.
• Classroom Management: Desks in fours, students sit in front four groups, question answer, Demoing clearly, circulating room.
• Professionalism: On time, organized, class started promptly at 4.
What We’ve Learned• Learned: Students will be excited for a
project if the teacher shows enthusiasm.
• What Worked: Speaking clearly, Keeping momentum in lesson so students aren’t chatty.
• What Needs Improved: Time management, got lucky with time working perfectly but wont always be the case.
Third Class• Content: Danced/Charades, Human color wheel, students
learned about basic color concepts, and then applied them to abstracted self portraits.
• Instructional Delivery: Interaction helped students interest in the lesson, was flexible and helped students understand color concepts, goals were clear and repeated.
• Classroom Management: Students were behaved, questioning helped students learn, was positive and encouraging, was prepared.
• Professionalism: Collaboration was key, was professional and very enthusiastic while educating which made students interested and also comfortable.
What We’ve Learned
• Learned: Students need walked through lesson very thoroughly.
• What Worked: Interaction and enthusiasm are very effective in a lesson.
• What Needs Improved: Delivery must be clear and concise.