Residency - Urban Arts Academy - Tamar Ghidalia - 4.50 Hours
This week I’ve completed my last lesson plan. Fluxus theater went as well as it’ll ever be for a group of k-2 graders. A lot of them were extremely excited, and others didn’t care the slightest. But overall, the lesson yielded interesting results.
For one, I forget how important to show and lead the children by the way I move around in the classroom. It’s insanely impactful how adults teach kids, when the kids learn from adults at a visual standpoint. A child learns from their teachers and parents just by watching them move. So it was important in my lesson to provide the visuals from the motion of my body in order for them to start performing. I feel that that’s the most important thing for me to work on if I were to ever do this lesson again.
I have one more week left at Urban Arts, so it’ll be sad to say goodbye to the kids. But this has been an amazing experience from the residencies and shadowing that I’ve done this semester.