KEY POST ONE-RESEARCH

KEY BLOG POST – RESEARCH

With having all these lectures, talks, discussions and placements I have been given a lot of information about different aspects of teaching and about how to share my art experience with others.
The key points I have found in my reflection to my practice is that most of my work would appeal to more of the disability children and people with learning difficulties because I have found that children or adults with learning difficulties focus more towards the arts. My art work is very multisensory and hands on and sometimes this is what the children need to express themselves. For them it’s a form of communication.

Art is all about expressing yourself and what I have found doing art within the DACA you have to do art in a certain way. This frustrated me as an artist because I found art should never have certain limits.

When I went to DACA on my placement and I was talking to some of the students about what kind of materials I use they seemed amazed and shocked. They have never hear of any students using these types of materials before. With the students being shocked by my work, I demonstrated to students some simple techniques and processes. The students have never been showed these techniques before and seeing the student manipulate the simple techniques in different ways influenced me as an artist. I was getting showed all these different points.

I thought I wouldn’t enjoy teaching the students however what I did enjoy doing was showing the students different processes. I found intriguing because they just seemed amazed by all these different styles and techniques. From this and having the discussion about the people with learning difficulties has strongly influenced my idea within my development because this was my most exciting time. I found that you can influences these children and adults with your art. You almost build a bond with the students and having that influences them which influences my work because of my work being all about multisensory.

I want to influence the students with the materials I use. They influences my art work in loads of unique ways and the influences are strong and that is what some people need with learning difficulties. They need that strong influence to help them to have an understanding in what is going on and how to express themselves within the art materials.
The students with learning difficulties and disabilities really interests me because of the fact you have to try harder. I feel like some of the students will push you to your limits and that’s what I want to achieve. I want to be pushed all the time because it helps me grow as a person and an artists.

I want to influence the students in different way but use art and materials as the main key points. All these points are what I want to explore further because this all link to my art practice because of the professional context behind it. My professional context is all to do with materials and senses which links with the learning difficulties as these are what some of the students use to commutate.   

Rachel Curle- Jelly

Rachel Curle- Neons

 
  

LEARNING DIFFICULTIES

Working with people with learning difficulties

Having this lecture/ discussion about students with learning difficulties really interested to me because I have worked with students before with these difficulties and what I was doing with them was art related. One of the reasons I liked working with the students with learning difficulties is that they were always keen to learn different way. They wanted to do the work unlike some of the other students. I wanted to help the students in the most way I could. The way the students with learning difficulties respond to you and how they relate to different materials amazes me because all my practice artwork relates to this interaction using the sense and most students with learning difficulties respond or work within the same way. Over all this is one of the main subjects that has stood out to me more that teaching and mentoring the DACA students.

  

IDEAS FOR THE WORKSHOP

 IDEAS FOR THE WORKSHOP

 

 

 

NOTES

YEAR SEVEN ART

Within this lesson the year sevens were the same however with this lesson I took notes on how the teacher taught the students and how he keep them interested in the lesson.

 

YEAR SEVENS

YEAR SEVEN TEXTILES

This lesson was much different to any of the others I had been in before. Year sevens are all keen to learn and they are all jumpy and they love asking questions. I have to admit that I thought I wouldn’t like the year sevens because of the fact they ask too many questions however you can make this benefit you as a teacher. By creating little tasks for the year sevens help them stay keen and interested in the lesson because one of the down falls of year sevens is that they get bored easy. One of the opportunity I got to do in this class was to calm down the students and get them to pay attention to me at the front of the class. By counting down from five they knew that they has to be quite and wait for me to tell them there next task. The good thing about this was that this quite technique works on year sevens by defiantly wouldn’t work with A-level students because they are to mature. 

  

WEEK TWO

YEAR 10 PHOTOGRAPHY

In this lesson I went to one student and asked if he enjoyed photography however he was more interested in his PE lesson and exam. I tried to get him motivated in his work and kept asking question. The student works was really interested and the theme was apart and together I could link with this student because some of the photography he was done is what am trying to do at a degree level this made the student shocked however she showed me ways and quick techniques of how to get more clean and crisp images. The key with year 10 students was motivation they think they know everything and say that they don’t care about their work and the trick was to get them motivated.

  

SHADWOING

 

 

SHADWOING STUDENTS

Today we had to follow students in different class rather than talking and mentoring them in different art classes. I was placed in a year nine science lesson with Mr Byrne however they were doing a revision so they didn’t really have much to say so I took notes on how the teacher got the class working and interactive with the lesson. The class were quite good and quiet they were year nine so they didn’t really misbehaviour. However in the afternoon I was placed in a year eights maths class. This lesson was very different to the others that I have witnessed. Year eights themselves are always up to mischief and testing the bounders of their teachers. The class had some children that were misbehaving in the lesson and I found that teachers have different ways of dealing with different types of behaviour. However I was sat near one of the students that kept misbehaving and saying things he shouldn’t have been. Then when I was sat next to him and helped explain how to do his work he settled down. I hated the way the students would put themselves down saying that they are stupid and they don’t understand what the teacher is saying. However they don’t help themselves by shouting and misbehaving in the class when the teacher is talking. When I sat and broke down what they had to do they seem to get it really quick. I found that some of the students try to show off but by sitting them down and making them realise they have more potential to do well. When they got the right answers they were so happy with themselves this was rewarding.

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