April 10th 2013
The TPA
lesson plan is something that we have all become decently familiar with since
the beginning of the education program.
Although it may seem a bit tedious at times the structure and formatting
of the TPA itself seems like it would prepare the teacher for whatever they may
encounter during that specific lesson. I
still have yet to teach a lesson to my art class at Mt. Spokane High because of
my late placement. Teaching a lesson to
an art class though will be much different than in many other subjects. In more traditional classroom settings, one
lesson plan could be used for one days-worth of instruction but for me to write
a lesson plan for that amount of time seems useless. The process of creating art as we all know is
a more hands on process and to introduce a topic along with have the students
create a final product in a 50-90 minute class is just not feasible. Although I will need to write up fewer lesson
plans for this class setting, each lesson plan is going to have to account for
about a week of instruction (5 class meetings).
This may be most noticeable when writing up the assessment portion of
the lesson plan. For a lesson to be done
properly in this setting formative assessment will most likely be the most
detailed aspect of the lesson plan. The
amount of feedback the students will be receiving during the lesson will be
extremely beneficial, and will aid them in producing a decent, original
product. Since the students will be
creating a physical work of art, summative assessment should be fairly
simple. Student progress will be easily
noticed on a daily basis and effort will show in their final product. I believe it is only fair to have the
students know why it is they will be doing the work assigned to them in
class. A copy of the lesson plan
rationale to be provided to the students could help to provide motivation to
some of them but if that is not provided then the students should at least
receive a document stating everything that is expected of them so they have a
framework to work from. As I stated
earlier these TPA lesson plans have the capability of being extremely
beneficial but sometimes it may need to be tweaked just a little bit in order
to provide the best learning opportunities for specific settings.
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