Within the year 7
art classes they was looking at the artist Shauno, and creating a self-portrait
in the style of the artist.
Below are images of
the project mood board and the Year 7s works in progress.
Learn 2 learn is extra
lessons set up to specially teach Maths and English to children that need extra
support, due to learning difficulties and lack of concentration in actual
class. Within this lesson tasks are taught slightly different than in a normal
lesson, as they engage the children more and explain in simpler forms, the use
of art is sometimes involved as visual learning seems to be more successful
with the children.
Within my lesson of
learn 2 learn, we was looking at converting bar chart information into a pie
chart.
The lesson began by
a simple starter task of answering questions about results of a bar chart, for
example what breakfast was the most popular? (Look for the breakfast with the
highest amount on the chart), this task was easy as the answers were all there
on the bar chart, however some of the children needed guiding to the answers.
Then we moved onto
the main task. They used a bar chart they made in the previous lesson, about
separating a pack of Smarties by colour, and tried to transfer the information
onto a pie chart. The formula was discussed as a group a couple of times
and then they had to work out their information. Even though the task was
explained very clear and a hand out of the formula was given, and they all
said they understood, a lot did not know how to go about it or they needed
guiding.
With both art and
learn 2 learn I work with a small group, which were the same children in both
classes. I had to give them support, guidance and motivation to help them
complete the work, but it is important to not become too involved as the
students need to build on independence. However some of the group would keep
asking for more and more help even though they understood, but they just didn’t
want to try.
