Timp High

Went to Timp high to observe a Drafting teacher today and also saw a media arts teacher.

The media arts is more interesting to me and i think i would like that kinda class but i noticed that its very easy for a media arts class to get out of control with kids running around everywhere doing something different. With having to do things like the school news its easy to focus on that with the few elect students and let the rest kinda fall by the way side and do whatever.

The teacher was actually pretty good and we did catch him during a busy period but still a dozen students were working and the rest were just goofing off. Ways have to be created either to involve all the students in the news project or at least rotate them through and have other things the rest of the kids can work on .

The drafting teacher was pretty good. Kids seemed to like the class and to pretty well know how to use Autocad and do basic drafting. He had different projects planned for the kids throughout the year to give them some breaks and give them something fun to do. The only thing missing was a good why. Why the students should do their drawings.

When i was in highschool we always had regional and state competitions to submit our drawings projects too. We came in and worked pretty hard because we had an immediate goal for ourselves.