10/11
I met with the teacher I will be observing, Bryce Colby, at about 8:50 where we started to discuss the class set up, grades he taught, and what he was currently teaching. He taught 6, 7, and 8th grade art classes. The first period (9-10) was a prep/planning period, the second period (10-10:45) was the 8th grade class who where working on ceramics and had a glazing introduction, third period (10:45-11:30) was the 7th grade's turn a two dimensional picture into a three dimensional wood and glue sculpture, fourth period (11:30-12) was our lunch time, fifth period (12-12:45) was the first round of 6th graders who where learning how to draw with implied texture like Van Gogh, sixth period (12:45-1:30) where playing catch up to the first group of sixth graders, working outside to draw from life, seventh period (1:30-2:15) was another group of sixth graders who where doing what the fifth period sixth graders did, eighth period was a planning/cleanup/grading period, and ninth period was basiclly a built in study hall for everyone otherwise called Advocacy Group where students can get teacher help, go to a diffrent group to their math teacher for math help, etc.
Diffrences between this school and my middle school: Closed floor plan (in my middle school (at Ballston Spa) most classrooms had no backs and no doors, open to the hallway), silent transition to their next classroom (no bell), Almost every single student has the same sketch book as it would turn out, the school purchases a large amount of sketch books every year for the incoming sixth grade class, they purchace the sketch books at the school store and use them for the entire 3 years they go there. If a student moves or plans on getting home schooled, parents or students can pick up the books before the student leaves. One parent even asked for the weekly assignments students get for their sketch books so they can continue with it. Otherwise, sketch books are collected and stored at the end of the year for the next years' use.
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