The competent teacher plans and designs instruction based on content area knowledge, diverse student characteristics, student performance data, curriculum goals, and the community context. The teacher plans for ongoing student growth and achievement.
Building Photoshop skills
Learning Basic Edits by editing this cat photo.
Learning how to move objects by making a fruit person.
Learning how to import new background by editing me.
Putting all ideas together by making an image of their favorite song.
These are projects I had my high school students do to build their knowledge and skill of using a computer and photoshopping. They first learned how to edit photos on photoshop, then move things, import backgrounds, and then putting it all together.
Standard 3E states that the competent teacher understands the appropriate role of technology, including assistive technology, to address student needs, as well as how to incorporate contemporary tools and resources to maximize student learning.
A lot of my students had never used a computer before, so building in macbooks into their work was important, and teachign them how to edit was a contempory tool they were introduced to.
Standard 3I) says that the competent teacher creates short-term and long-term plans to achieve the expectations for student learning.
I created a 3 part lesson building different painting styles on top of each other to create one collaged painting. The students did short term projects to create one long term project. They combined their realism and abstraction skils to create an artwork inspired by Eric Carle.