Mr. Morse’s Art History Class
October 24, 2014
FOCUS: Teaching Method
Mr. Morse understands how to keep his students involved during the class through learning. One thing I observed was he creates a light atmosphere at the beginning of each class, during this observation, she showed the girls a humorous link with funny titles for famous paintings. He incorporates art into everything. He understands that he is teaching high school students. Side conversations and little comments to one another don't mind him as long as it doesn't interrupt the class as a whole. He's not going to take up time to reprimand everyone, if they aren't paying attention. If they miss information, it might not make it into their "textbook" since each student creates an individual textbook from the art and lectures or discussions in class. It gives Mr. Morse the opportunity to form the curriculum around the students and their interests. If the class dived deeper into a topic it was easy to do that because he was creating the specifics of the class a they go along. Mr. Morse understands that a teacher doesn't need to always know the answer and it's important that he is able to acknowledge that. We are all human so we cannot know everything the important thing is that we are able to understand that and take the next step in learning by finding the answer through learning.
FOCUS: Teaching Method
Mr. Morse understands how to keep his students involved during the class through learning. One thing I observed was he creates a light atmosphere at the beginning of each class, during this observation, she showed the girls a humorous link with funny titles for famous paintings. He incorporates art into everything. He understands that he is teaching high school students. Side conversations and little comments to one another don't mind him as long as it doesn't interrupt the class as a whole. He's not going to take up time to reprimand everyone, if they aren't paying attention. If they miss information, it might not make it into their "textbook" since each student creates an individual textbook from the art and lectures or discussions in class. It gives Mr. Morse the opportunity to form the curriculum around the students and their interests. If the class dived deeper into a topic it was easy to do that because he was creating the specifics of the class a they go along. Mr. Morse understands that a teacher doesn't need to always know the answer and it's important that he is able to acknowledge that. We are all human so we cannot know everything the important thing is that we are able to understand that and take the next step in learning by finding the answer through learning.
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