Blog Topic #6

This class was actually really hard to work with during this VTS. We had a bad start to the class with 5 of the students ending up with demerits and one having a detention assigned. I think this had major influence to the discussion. But so goes teaching!

The students notice what I believed to be the overall theme of this painting. After awhile the students seemed to loose interest. It might be because of my choice for picture to VTS. Some students were very sidetracked at the end. They started to list what they saw. I think this happened because I did not refer back to the first question enough. I needed to make sure that they were to talk about what is going on in the picture. That was my mistake.
The students did interact with me and they did well with staying on task. I have a group of "squarely" boys that got off track. They seemed to be making stuff up and feeding off of each other. They were also the ones I corrected to be respectful and quiet down.  But then again, they were some of the first to jump into the discussion because they wanted to state their opinion.
The discussion concluded when no one else had anything to say. I think they could have done a lot better, but I believe that because we had a very rough start to the class the mood was not very positive. It was just ONE OF THOSE DAYS... to say the least!

I was comfortable teaching in the VTS style. I was more concerned if the camera was recording. I was afraid that I was going to be looking at myself the entire time because I set up my iPad to record. I covered the screen with paper so I wouldn't become distracted. So when I hit record, I wasn't really sure that it started. There were no surprises during this VTS.

I want to work on the picture that I will pick for the next VTS. I don't think my students were as interested in it as I thought they would be. Next time I may choose one of the photographs.