Two weeks ago I was able to put my teaching skills to the test. I taught 3 days at Central Mountain in the floral design class. The prep for this lab consisted of writing 3 lesson plans on how to make floral bows. Grant it, this was not my first idea that I came up with. I originally thought that I would go over the principles of design, the color wheel and then have the students work on a triangular floral design. However, I was turned down with to the fact that the students already learned this. Ms. Hack gave me the idea of teaching floral bows.
The idea seemed like to would be easy but the more I started to prep for it I had a hard time coming up with new things to do every day.
My first day, I had a PowerPoint on the different types of ribbons and why floral bows were used. I wanted to have an example of all the types of ribbons to pass around to the students but was not able to find them so I had to show pictures. After the PowerPoint, I told the students we were going to go out to the shop to practice making bows. I did not have any key words for when the students were to head out so they started right away. I was able to grab the students attention and explain before they left the classroom. Once out in the shop I showed the students how to make the bows using the V-board approach. This went great, but a lot faster than I thought it would. Some of the students started to make bows differently. Since I did not have this planned, and I was not 100% sure on how to do it myself. I pulled the other students in to do the demonstration for me.
My review for the first day went better than I thought it would have. I got excellent or very goods in all most everything. Before I was given my feed back, I was asked to state how I thought I did. I started off by saying that it was not good and not how I wanted it to go. However, Johnathan told me differently.
The second day, I started off by showing the students a you tube video on how to make a puffy bow. Once the video was done, I sent the students back to the shop to practice that. I explained that after they had perfected the puffy bow I would give the a handout with instructions on how to make different bows. I wanted to see how the students followed directions and use a different way of presenting the information. This worked out for the most part. I did have one student say that she can't learn from reading a piece of paper. So I showed her how to do it while she read the instructions to me. Then I took my bow apart and made her do it. I also had other students helping others out when I could not be in all places at once.
The review for the second day went good as well. I was given some great feedback that went along with what I was thinking.
The third day was my worst day I think. I did not have as much planing in it. I started off with the quiz. I split the class into two. Ms. Hack watched half the class take the written part of the quiz while I had the other half in the shop. The students had to make a puffy bow for me by themselves. After that, I then switched groups of students and did it again. After the quiz was done, I had every come to the shop and we made a magazine bow. This by far was the best part of my teaching experience. The students were engaged the whole time and interested in how to make it. Once again I had a girl who knew how to do it so she took half the class and taught them.
I learned from this experience that preparation is key. I also learned that I strive more in the shop setting then in the classroom lecturing.
My feedback from my students was a mixture of comments. They ranged from being more prepared to do not change anything you did great.
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