Week 13 (Last Blog!)

 I cannot believe the end of the semester is already here. I have learned many things throughout this semester that will be beneficial to me in my future classroom. This past week, we participated in creating a presentation about a book and incorporating drama techniques into the lesson as demonstrated in a previous week. I believe our chosen book had many opportunities to incorporate drama into it. It was not super challenging to figure out how to incorporate these techniques into the book. I believe the hardest part in the beginning was remembering what each technique meant and what needed to be incorporated into each technique. After we figured out what we needed, creating the presentation wasn't super challenging. I believe after creating it, the hardest part was presenting it to the class. I, personally, have always been iffy about presentations to begin with, so knowing I was going to have to stand in front of the class and act made me a little anxious. Once we got up there, it was not bad at all, but I personally think I could have done better with engaging the audience and or students and overall being more animated with the lesson to make it overall more engaging and exciting for the class.

We also got to exhibit our artwork in Mckay this week. At first, I kind of found it a little silly because I am definitely not an artist and know my artwork, especially the parody art, is not the best. I just have never excelled in that kind of art. However, I found the overall idea very cute as it allows us to see our peers work. It also allows other education majors and staff to see our artwork and the hard work we put into the class over the semester. I also realized that although my artwork may not be the best in my eyes, it does not have to be! It is all about the experience and learning something. And I must say my artwork did definitely turn out better than I expected in the long run.