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Journal 6, April 19 2021 

The past couple of weeks have been a whirl wind, from co-teaching, to STAAR testing, to now flying solo as a student teacher. I have been having a blast at Alamo Heights High School. I love the students, I love the classroom, and I love what I am making. I have been currently working with students on creating a mixed media sculpture in our ceramics classes. I am amazed at what some of the students are coming up with, and I am able to share my passion of clay and fibers. I am also able to make some sculpture in this class and that is what you will see as a in progress to my art journal. This piece that I made I will be add weaving to the sides of it, and it is going to be a reflection as my time as a student teacher. I am going to create the weavings with different stiches to represent my weeks at Alamo Heights High School. 

Teaching in person and also teaching students online has been somewhat of a challenged. I am still trying to find the happy medium of doing pottery demos for students in person and online at the same time. It seems like madness, but somehow I am figuring it out, and in a way I think it is making me a better teacher. Tomorrow I will be starting a portraits lesson with students in Art 1, we will be creating self-portraits based on our culture and communities of who we are. I am really excited about this lesson, because I think it is going to be a great way to get to know the students on a deeper level. Today it finally hit me that I am at the end of my College career, and I am so close to actually becoming an art teacher. I don’t think it will really happen until I get my first teaching job, and at that point I think it will feel more official. I feel like it is a bitter sweet moment, I have learned so much in my time at CSU and during my student teaching that I don’t want to give that up. However, in some ways I feel like it is now time, I am ready to move on and have my own students and my own classroom. I have three more weeks at Alamo Heights High School, but really it is two more weeks because my last week is testing and I won’t see most of my students. Overall, I have learn a lot about who I am as a teacher, what I want to become, and how I can grow even more. 

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