Rationale

This video I created is a tutorial I created fall of 2022 during my student teaching placement. This video shows students how to apply and create a satisfying piece of work with a variety of materials and techniques. This helps as a teacher because it shows the demonstration of the project, which helps save time in class . How does this save time in class you may ask? Providing edited clips can be quicker than actually doing a live demo in class. I enjoy doing live demos, but sometimes having an edited video can help minimize usage of class time. Therefore this extra time can be used to include extra formative assessments or provide more work time in class.

While creating my demonstration video I was not only able to see how valuable it can be to have and use more in class time, but helped in showing students and myself the creative process of making artwork. It showed them how to use new material and mediums, and how to integrate them into a piece of art work. This goes along with the competent teacher 5B “understands principles and techniques, along with advantages and limitations, associated with a wide range of evidence-based instructional practices”. Also, with this demonstration it required a lot of understanding of the process, as a teacher I feel as though it is very important to understand your material. The importance to this is to get all the trial and errors out of the way to see what types of learning may be beneficial to you students. Doing the demonstration gave me an understanding of my learning material and how it will benefit my students cognitively. This also goes along with competent teacher 5A which states, “understands the cognitive processes associated with various kinds of learning”. When doing the demonstration, I realized that my students were engaging their observational and motor skills.

By having to create this demonstration it practiced my lesson planning skills, showing me the importance of trial and error to make a lesson plan that works for myself and my students. It advanced my skills in how to use and search for technology tools to incorporate in my lesson planning. This demonstration was especially beneficial when students were absent and missed my in class demo. I would provide this video as a resource to students to catch up on their 12 watercolor techniques. Before using video demos, I would have to sit one on one or in a group with students who missed the day of the assignment. This just become not doable for me and when I discovered how to make video demos it made my life in the classroom a lot easier. With this video demo students can catch up on missing work in class or even at home. That way you can focus on whats going on in class presently instead of attempting to back track with students.