For my placement I spent an extra two days there, trying to work in my lesson to teach to the students. A part of me is a bit sad that I didn't get the chance to teach a lesson but at the same time it allowed for me to see first hand all the chaos that happens in a classroom.
I was placed in an art subject that I was not very familiar with, ok...to be honest, not familiar with at all. I have dabbled in photoshop but never explored it in the depths these viscom students were going in. It was cool to learn from them and the teacher, because I had no idea what I was doing in regards to viscom lessons. My teacher worked with me and we came up with a lesson that ideally I would have taught. However, holidays happened, teacher absences, chaos and more chaos happened in the classroom. Servers went down wiping out a lot of the students hard work, and I got to see first hand how a teacher would handle the situation of telling the students the bad news.
To get more specific, the students who are a part of the school newspaper had their next issue entirely deleted off the computers. My mentor teacher, and the helping teacher for the class, dreaded telling the students but when they did, the students had a very surprising response. After being told all their work was deleted, they banded together and began throwing out ideas about coming in on extra days and free periods to all work together to get the paper back on track by their deadline (the 10th of december). The teachers themselves were shocked at how hard the students were willing to work to make sure that the paper was printed on time. It was quite a moving moment, and even the teacher joked that he felt he was in the movie It's A Wonderful Life. Throughout the day the kids came in on their free periods and started the process all over again.
It was because of this and other hectic days, that I was unable to teach my lesson. Luckily, I was able to work with the teacher and develop a very interesting lesson which I can use at a later date.
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