Leona Sonnentag: Blog I

What is your teaching experience so far?

 

So far I don’t have much teaching experience.  Last semester I was able to be part of the PAINT program for the first time and it was a great experience.  I was able to be active with the students in the gym so it will be a bit different this semester. Aside from the PAINT internship last semester, I am currently in the Infant and Toddler Lab at UW-Stout for 2 hours once a week.  I also have 5 younger siblings so there is some experience teaching there.

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What are you looking forward to about the class you will be teaching?

I am looking forward to becoming more creative.  I am hoping that Making Stories Come Alive will challenge me to be more creative so that I will be able to carry that over to when I will have to stick to a curriculum so that I can still make it fun.  I am also looking forward to getting to know each of the students on a personal level.

 

What do you hope to learn/gain from this experience?

From this experience I am hoping to gain experience controlling a classroom.  I hope to expand my classroom management abilities and to gain experience sticking to rules and following through with warnings. I also hope to be able to have a fun learning environment where there is mutual respect where everyone can have fun while learning.

Leah Corso: Blog I

What is your teaching experience so far?

 

I have been teaching swimming lessons for 4 years and I did some classroom observations over winter break. I am also in ECE 105 so I have one day a  week where I am in the Child and Family Study Center.

 

 

What are you looking forward to about the class you will be teaching?

I look forward to creating a wide variety of lessons for the children to be expressive. I also look forward to increasing their experience in theatre using, skits, drama games and literature. I also plan on implementing art activates into books we read to connect children more to the story. I know many of them are not interested in art but my hope to find one activity that makes them excited and engaged to their full potential.

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What do you hope to learn/gain from this experience?

I hope to gain more classroom management skills and efficient lesson planning. Over the first two lessons we have done, the children have been somewhat rowdy and it was hard to control them. Leona and I have started setting boundaries and stricter rules, so the kids understand respect. We have had some incidents between the kids that were resolved. The groups can be challenging ,but I know that these are all good kids.

 

Marissa Pilney: Blog I

What is your teaching experience so far?

 

It seems that teaching has always been a part of my life. I babysat for many years, and I also tutored at a homeless shelter when I was in high school. During the summer of 2017, I was a paraeducator for a 2nd grade summer school class. From then on, I have had experience teaching toddlers and preschoolers through my classes at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

 

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What are you looking forward to about the class you will be teaching?

I am looking forward to getting to know all of the kids in my class. I feel that it is important to create relationships with the students so they feel comfortable coming to talk to you if they are experiencing any troubles. Along with that, I am also looking forward to creating wonderful art projects with the students, as I really love being creative myself.

 

What do you hope to learn/gain from this experience?

I hope that I can grow as a teacher from this experience. Every time I teach a new lesson, I learn new things. I am excited to learn and grow along with the children.

Sierra Thomfohrda: Blog I

What is your teaching experience so far?

 

I have had a variety of teaching experiences thus far. For classes I have taught a single lesson to kindergarteners for the ArtEd 108 class, completed 30 hours for a practicum in 208 where I taught a ceramics lesson to 5th graders, and completed 40 hours for a practicum in ArtEd 308 where I worked with k-12 grades and taught my edTPA lesson to third graders. I have also completed multiple PAINT internships. One working with Art at the Arc and Thursday Night Thrill Seekers teaching adults with disabilities. I taught a sculpture class for the Boys and Girls Club and am currently teaching Collaborative Art there. I have also done two semesters of teaching watercolor at the Dunn County Jail.

 

 

What are you looking forward to about the class you will be teaching?

I am looking forward to exploring the possibilities and limitations of the class and introducing the students to those possibilities of collaborative arts. I am also looking forward to getting the chance to work with and get to know all of the students and what their abilities are. I am eager to investigate the compatibility of natural elements and man made materials. I also look forward to learning how students work on larger scale projects.

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What do you hope to learn/gain from this experience?

Throughout this internship I want to improve my classroom management skills. Things such as knowing how to approach situations, how to talk to students who are struggling or misbehaving, and what is the appropriate and effective way to handle those situations. I also hope to gain the skills to be comfortable being flexible in my lesson plan, and allow students to make their own art, and how to handle when students ‘finish’ in five minutes. I also plan to work on building rapport with each student, and connecting with all the students.

Eva Peak: Blog IV

What is your teaching experience so far?

Last semester I was lucky enough to be a part of two A.I.M internships, P.A.I.N.T Saturdays and The Child and Family Study Center. Previous to this, I was in a in a child development class for three years of high school, where we taught preschoolers.

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What are you looking forward to about the Internship you will be doing?

I am excited to be learning more about the medium of mosaic with tiles! I do not have very much experience working with tiles so it will be a fun learning opportunity for me as well as the students.

 

What do you hope to learn/gain from this experience?

Along with gaining more knowledge about using tiles in art, I am hoping to learn about more mediums that are not as common like paint and be able to find ways to adapt them for classroom projects for the future. In addition to that, being able to work on my teaching skills.

 

Kat Lund: Blog III

Kat Lund: Blog III

I’ve learned that you can’t always be the good guy, there are times where you can’t just let things go. For example, students screaming in the gym space or talking back. I’ve learned ways to deal with problems like that. For example, having a hand gesture that means be quiet. I also learned more about myself and what works best with me in my classroom course wise.

Sami Cromer: Blog III

Sami Cromer: Blog III

I would say that I have definitely grown as a teacher in lesson planning and classroom management. While teaching this class, I have noticed that I got much better at being able to clearly demonstrate projects as well. When working with younger children, I learned that if I was able to over-explain steps to complete a project then I was doing just what I was supposed to because they need to have the projects explained over and over in order to understand how to complete the task.

Eva Peak: Blog III

Eva Peak: Blog III

I believe this whole experience has made me more confident. I know I still have aspects of my teaching I need to work on, but that is something I am grateful to know. Being able to learn and reflect, getting to know students, being creative and bringing art to classrooms made me truly happy during this semester of teaching. I had so much joy over all just being able to have this experience that not that many freshman have. I feel that experience is one of the best ways to learn and I have had so much fun learning and building my skill set.

Alyssa Boyer: Blog III

I was pushed out of my comfort zone and challenged a lot. I never worked with a group of toddlers until I started this internship. I never used to be one that was comfortable with singing, dancing, and dramatic play and when I was told to include some dramatic play and singing in my lessons I freaked out. During my lesson I noticed the children were more into my lesson when I was more into it. I realized that it didn’t matter if I looked a little silly or if I didn’t have the best singing voice. I have become more confident in my abilities as a teacher and have become more aware of the importance of a wide variety of types of activities in my lessons.

Sara Sampson: Blog III

Sara Sampson: Blog III

I have grown in many ways throughout my experience as a teacher during my internship at the Dunn County Jail. I have gone out of my comfort zone taking on this internship because I have never been in a jail before. I found it very rewarding getting to know the students and watching them surprise me with their skills day after day. I gained knowledge of how to teach out of a classroom environment where the classroom is not designed for art related use. Most of all, I have had to use new strategies to keep the students engaged.

Hannah Denninger: Blog III

Hannah Denninger: Blog III

Overall I have a new understanding of how to handle older students. Before this opportunity I had no experience with children older than 5. So going into this I was a little nervous about how to handle the older age groups. I now can say that I have a good understanding of how to work with older children. I also have a better understanding of my role as the head teacher of a class. I have to do more than just present a lesson to them. Making personal connections with each of the students I think is an important thing that I learned from working with the Boys and Girls Club.

Leona Sonnentag: Blog III

Leona Sonnentag: Blog III

I feel I have grown most at being able to manage the classroom.  Being in a gym gives added difficulty to being able to manage behavior but after a routine set in, it became a lot easier.  The students knew what we were doing and knew what was expected of them.  The gym setting was really nice for what we were doing but it made the students extra antsy.  Getting them to quiet down and listen was a struggle in the beginning but throughout the semester it got easier because I learned how to better get their attention and keep it in order to tell them the plan for that day.

Vanessa Lee: Blog III

Just by being able to consistently go into a classroom twice a week, I have become a more confident and experienced teacher. I now know what kind of art activities students this age would enjoy, and ones that might be too easy or too complex. It made me happy to go into the classroom in the mornings, start setting up my supplies, and have 1-2 students start asking me what we were going to be doing that day. I loved how inquisitive and enthusiastic they were about art!

Mela Wasilewski: Blog III

This experience has made me more confident about teaching.  Being alone in my internship has made this experience so memorable. I learned how to be a teacher and to make my classroom how I would want it to be. I am lucky this way. I made tweaks to where I thought needed some work and took advice when needed. It made me realize that teaching is hard but working to improve is always possible.

Elizabeth Rosendahl: Blog III

Elizabeth Rosendahl: Blog III

I have a couple of new understandings about my role in the classroom and children. A new understanding that will help me in the future is discovering how different ages of children have different attention spans. Through this understanding, I learned how to keep younger students from running around and focusing on the project at hand. This was a challenge I encountered throughout the semester, but with practice and observation of other teachers, I learned how to control a classroom in an effective manner.

Nicole Seidler: Blog III

Nicole Seidler: Blog III

What I have learned through Canvas Fridays is better time management when teaching a painting. I have improved greatly on creating a painting that takes exactly 2 hours; nothing more or less. Teaching this class helps me understand the importance of time management and it is a great skill to have because it can be used in everyday life. Throughout teaching this class, I have also learned some helpful skills that improve the class such as, playing music when the families are painting so it isn’t so quiet. Also I learned that doing ice breakers helps me as a teacher and other students get to know each other.

Amy Eidahl: Blog III

Amy Eidahl: Blog III

I understand that I am essentially the “boss” of the classroom. I understand that there are similarities between my experience working in management and in the classroom. Over the semester I learned about different strengths each student has in the classroom. I understand now that some projects are more popular than others and that it is hard to predict this prior to class. Over time, students became more familiar with the routine of my classroom and it made for a smoother lesson.

Marissa Stoffel: Blog II

    I have most definitely grown as a teacher from this experience even though it’s only been five to six weeks. I have really grown when it comes to being efficient with lesson planning and then facilitating the lessons in the classroom. This experience has taught me that the lesson you have written may not go according to plan when you actually facilitate it, but that’s an okay thing. I’ve learned that the most important thing is the student’s experience and what they create from the materials you have given them.

Kat Lund: Blog II

Kat Lund: Blog II

When I first started teaching I had no idea what I was doing. No one explained what I could do and couldn't do with the kids. How was i supposed to control them, would they just listen to me as me or would I need to be stern when talking. After a few weeks it definitely get easier, all the questions that I had got answered, in one way or another. Let me tell you, I learned a lot about how I needed to talk to kids, they can be rude, they can trick you or they can get way too close.

Sami Cromer: Blog II

Sami Cromer: Blog II

I now understand how important it is to really model how to do a certain project and that if I think I am explaining too much then that is probably perfect because the children find modeling and demonstrating how to do something really helpful. I also find it interesting when doing a wide variety of projects during the semester, when I notice which children really get engaged in which kind of projects. I notice those things and then try to plan future lessons based off of those interests.