What I learned about myself this week.

I had an experience this week with teaching a color lesson with my 2nd year students. I was trying to explain the levels of lift to the class. The students were following along with me in their textbooks but when I looked up they had some very confused faces. I asked the kids what it was where they we're becoming so lost. In return they said that the charts in the book were confusing to them because their were 3 of them and they were arranged in away that did not make it easy for them. I remembered that sometimes you just have to make it a little more elementary so we got out the color pencils and made our own levels of lift charts. By doing this the students felt more involved and it seemed to make more sense to them by lining up the charts in a way that would be easier and made more sense. With the chart lined up in this way the students just had to scan across each row to be able to see what each color would go through in the process of lifting out natural color. It goes back to the things we have been learning about relating to the students to make them more involved in teaching them the skills they need.