Observation six - Art, Craft and Design Ms Conroy

6/10 6th Year art class 27/11/2020

1. Professional teaching skills and ability: Communication, voice, terminology, personal qualities & pupils’ responses.

In this class students were working on their craft piece towards their leaving cert project, Ms Conroy was of use to everyone in the class as she circled round offering advice and suggestions when they would ask for it. She would call out 10 mins left and 5 mins left so the students were aware as to stop working and to put the materials away.

1. Classroom management: Pupil activity, pupil behaviour.

There were no issues with behaviour, the students worked away on their projects and got any materials they needed.

1. Presentation of learning content: Delivery of lesson, use of resources, visual aids, support studies.

I got to look through some student notebooks for their craft and you could easily tell what they were working from and the each had to have looked at artists who used similar materials or used the similar style of work or was just an inspiration behind the work

1. Effectiveness of planning: Clarity of intentions, quality of learning content, presentation.

Each student had been given a handout of framework to be done so the students were working towards a deadline and their work had to be achieved by then.

1. Assessment and evaluation of pupils work in class.

The students work would be assessed at the start of december this will include all their notebook prep work and any artist research and of course the final outcome.