3rd Grade Challenges
For my 3rd grade classes, I had a bit of a challenge with my students
following my exact instructions for how to make their artwork. The
assignment was to make a stained glass story using transparencies,
tissue paper, and mod podge. I very clearly broke down and
stressed to each class how to paint the mod podge first, put tissue paper
on top, then mod podge on top of the tissue paper. Yet, I still had students
who didn’t follow my instructions. It was disappointing because they
did the work, the majority understood the content of the lesson, but most of
their artwork didn’t come out how I hoped. After talking and
reflecting with my CT, he reassured me that my lesson and instructions
were clear and that many of the students in the classes who had
sub-par work simply just didn’t listen to me. This also varied with each 3rd grade class I had because I did have
a few classes that listened more than others. However, the artwork in
each class from the students who followed my instructions came out
great. I could tell they really were focused, paid attention to
detail, and I could tell they used their materials well. Here is an example of a student who not only followed
directions but exceeded expectations in their creativity of the project.
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