Reflection #11

What? So this week of field experience, my partner and I taught Monday thru Thursday. Two of those days we integrated a creative arts lesson. We are teaching a unit on the Mormon Pioneers.

So what? This field experience has taught me that students love the creative arts. They had so much fun with our lessons. We used Decision Alley to have a students decide whether they wanted to go be a Pioneer and face miles of walking and hardship or to stay homes and be persecuted. I had one student walk the alley and had one side tell her to go and one to stay. Students really got into it and they used convincing statement we had learned about to get them to stay or go.

The other creative arts lesson we used was the "Machine". We had the students act out something the pioneer would have used. For example a hand cart. The students really got into it and they learned the importance of working together.

Now what? I am very excited to start teaching full time where I can use creative arts in most of my lessons. I think that they students really got the most out of it. It was very exciting trying them out and seeing how the students responded to them. I think the students will remember the ideas they learned using creative arts for years to come.