Unit 6- A Reflection of This Units Assignments

     This semester is almost over, and every one is busy wrapping up final assignments for all their classes, including this one. This class has been helpful with finding ways to integrate technology into an Art classroom. Art isn't normally a class that technology is used in very often, its a very hands on subject. This class has helped me come up with unique and creative ways to integrate technology in new ways to my classroom. I hope to take the things I have learned from this class and implement them into my future classroom, I think it'll help me make a good teacher.

Unit 5- A Reflection of This Units Assignments

     This week we focused on the Americans wit Disabilities Act. This act helps students get the support they need to get their best education. It helps people get public help if needed. It helps all kinds of people get whatever support they need to have the best life they can possibly have.
     This weeks technology integration plan assignment was fairly easy. I didn't have too much trouble finding the information or understanding what I needed to do to complete the assignment.

Unit 4- A Reflection on This Units Assignments

     In this weeks discussion, we looked into different learning styles and ways to adapt our lessons to help our students learn in the way that is best for them as an individual. Each student works best with a different learning styles, and as teachers we must be able to adapt our lesson plans to help each student get their best education possible.

Visual- you prefer to use pictures, diagrams, images, and spatial understandings to help you learnMusical/Auditory- you prefer using sounds, music, or rhyming to help you learnPhysical/Kinesthetic- you use your hands body, and sense of touch to help you learn; also known to “act things out”Verbal- words are your strongpoint, you prefer to use words in both speech and writingLogical/Mathematical- learning is easier for you if you use logic, reasoning systems, and sequencesSocial- you like to learn new things as part of a group; explaining your understanding to a group helps you learnSolitary- you like to work alone, you use self-study and prefer your own company when learningCombination- any combination of two or more of the above learning styles

   

Unit 3- A Reflection of This Units Assignments

     This unit, we were told to look into Copyright and Fair Use policies. Fair Use is where you may use parts of other peoples work to support your own ideas as long as you provide proper citation for anything used. Copyright is put in place to protect peoples work and ideas from those who want to use it as their own without crediting the original creator. Allowing students to use research for their projects, can give them a way to springboard their ideas. They might not know what direction they want to go in, until they find something that sparks and idea from something they have seen or read. 

      As far as this units technology integration plan assignment, I didn't have too much trouble. The directions were pretty self explanatory. Having us keep an ePortfolio is a useful assignment because it allows us to look back on previous work and see how we've progressed throughout the semester.

Unit 2- Reflection of This Units Assignments

     For Unity 2, we were made to look inward when we were told to write an educational philosophy. We were asked who we wanted to teach and why we wanted to teach in the first place. I personally loved this assignment because I love talking about why I want to become a teacher. My story is different than others, I didn't always want to be a teacher, it came later, and when it did, it hit me like a ton of bricks.

     In 2012, I started at Texas A&M University- Commerce as a photography major. For two years I was working towards a degree in Studio Arts with an emphasis in photography, and as much as I love photography, I began to lose my passion for it. One summer, I got an offer to be an art teacher at SAMs Place, an orphanage in Kenya for deaf children. Although I didn't go that summer, I began to think of what it would be like to be an art teacher, and the more I thought about it, the more excited I got. I had found where I belonged, it was in the classroom.

                                                                                                            

This weeks discussion had us look into "Why plagiarism is not in a students best interest..." I personally believe plagiarism is not a viable option because the student does not learn anything. Every semester my teachers tell me "Any grade you earn on your own, no matter how bad, is better than the consequences that come with plagiarism." which I believe is true. When you complete your own assignment, even if you fail the assignment, you will learn what to do to improve your grade the next time. If you plagiarize, you fail the assignment regardless and face suspension or even expulsion.