8th Entry

I think that its a good idea to use collaborative lessons in my curriculum but its important to make sure that they actually have a purpose. I remember only doing one collaborative project in high school and it was a complete failure and we actually stopped working on it and just went on to the next project. I like the idea because it gives students the opportunity to work with others, helping them with there communication skills.
I think the other advantages of using collaborative is the ability of teamwork. I feel like that we are teaching the students individually so working in collabortive partners I feel that you have the opportunity to learn more about your students through their interactionts with other students and you are able to find out the personalities of your students, getting to see which students are more of the take charge leaders and which students are more of the followers. I also like collabortive becasue it gives students the chance work on projects that are part of something much larger which is important because you are able to show students a sence of more depth or perspective towards art making

I feel that I haven't had that much experience with people with disabilities on really any personal level. The only real experience was during my elementary art ed class our teacher brought in one of his students that he taught at his last school that was disabled. I felt that it was such a beneficial experience to have this person come and sit in the the class and have his be apart of the class community. I felt like having this student allowed for good experience in how to teach students with disabilities and it gave good experience in situations were you as the teacher tend to forget about these studetnts. I remember this one time when in class we were practicing teaching our lessons in a class simulation, and the teacher stopped this one group because this student who is in a wheel chair wasnt able to see, it was something that no one really noticed during but after the teacher made it a point it was something that wasnt forgotten.
I think this experience is important for my teaching because i makes me become noticeably more aware of handicapped students and more aware of the little things that these students need help with because of their limitations and its easy to let these students drift to the back of the class and most likely these students arent going to say anything so its important to be aware of their needs from the beginning.

6th blog

I think when dealing with different cultures and their icons its important to first have the students learn the history of that culture in order to gain the basis of the distinguishing features as well as what they means to this culture. I also think if you dont want students to copy, you have to make the lessons more open for students interpertation, that way students wont be so focused on trying to copy the icon, instead will be able to take different features or characteristics that embody that culture and use it in their own art. I think its important to show many different examples when working with different cultures and their icons, in order to help students gain ideas and being able to brainstorm them.
If a student wanted to include images that were not school appropriate I would most likely have that student stay after class and explain to them that they cant use those images because of the school policies. I would encourage the student to look for another image that is school appropriate. I encourage students to push limits and boundries but regardless this is your job and you have to follow the school rules.