Gregory Rose- MCTC- Residency- 4.25 hrs
This week at MCTC before class Gregory and I spent a lot of time trying to reassemble a broken skeleton for the students. We had to find metal wire and try to thread it around the skeleton’s joints. We had to reassemble the head, a hand, and a leg. After that Gregory and I worked in tandem to put together our lecture, finding images of the skeleton, and ways of breaking it down for drawing. When class started filtering in we decided to give the students more time to work on their self-portraits. Just about everyone’s needed some final touches. Gregory and I circled the room helping the students with any last-minute questions they had and giving feedback on compositions. After that Gregory had me lead the lecture about the figure and the structure of the skeleton. We decided to push the skeleton project to tomorrow to give the students more time to finish their portraits. After lecture, we gave the students more work time. A little over halfway through the class me and Gregory had the students hang up their work and get ready for critique. Gregory asked me to lead critique today and for the most part it went really well. I didn’t realize how much more difficult it is to lead a critique though. As a student I’ve always made sure to say something for each person’s work, but as a teacher it is so much more difficult trying to lead students into speaking. I think part of it was I needed to think of more open general questions to get the students to respond. I also needed to get used to leaving in some silence to try and goad students into talking. Ultimately though it was an amazing learning experience and something I need to practice more of.