I have found the overhead media projector to be a fantastic tool when giving presentations to students on art movements, history, artists, their works, and examples of classroom projects. Using google docs it is very easy to put together a slide show of art movements which characterize a unit's preemptive ideologies and help shape student expectations. "Prezi.com" is another free website slide show generator presents media in a hip and captivating way.
Another tool which helps keep order in the classroom is the live web cam at my desk. While students remain at their desks, I can do demonstrations of techniques for the whole classroom and have them projected. In classes of 25-30 students this tool is most beneficial. Now students are not crowding around my desk trying to get consistent glimpses of imperative techniques which they must use for their work.
Two takeaways from the recent alumni panel are; one, when filing digital applications I will save much time and energy by saving answers to questions given in the digital portion of the applications. They shared that many of the questions are repeated among many of the districts applications. Storing them in a digital cache will be very helpful for copy paste at my convenience. Two, when interviewing, it is important to research schools background mission philosophy, AYP, demographics, etc… in order to taylor my questions most proficiently to the interviewers interests.
Something I want to accomplish which I will have a chance to do is develop my personal classroom behavior management plan.
The next steps which relate to my TPA project are putting it in order and answering the post-observation questions.
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