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Teaching Practice

Team & Collabrative Teaching

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much"

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- Helen Keller

Collection of 6th years Still Life

Team Teaching

Post Primary School

6th Year, Project work & 3rd Year CBA2

During PME 1 school placement I collaborated with Charlotte Murray and Ian Carter in St. Mary's. I team teached in both of their 6th year and 3rd year classes. Helping with CBA 2 and the Leaving Cert Project work. Team teaching gave me the opportunity to learn from my host teachers and to engage in exam classes.
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We created a community, where we each learned from each other and the students received feedback and guidance from two teachers.
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My role focused on tutorials, presentations, small demonstrations and giving formative feedback to the students.
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Peer Teaching/ Learning

NCAD, Hybrid delivery

Our Habitat, Bookscape

Group Composition:
3 PME students from diverse backgrounds:​​
  1. Mags Brennan - Fine Art Painting
  2. Beth Toner - Graphic Design
  3. Katie Kenny - Sculpture and Expanded Practice
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Project:
Development Education Unit of Learning. Inspired by our Change Lab Project
 
Will you walk with us?
An Ecofeminist approach to sustainable land practices.
See. Appreciate. Change.
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To create an Accordion book-scape in response to the land we inhabit through an ecofeminist lens.

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Through a series of experimental drawings, designing an accordion book and sculpting a low relief front cover the theme “Our Habitat” will be investigated.

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Later, we each delivered the Unit of Learning in our School Placement Schools.

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Mags Brennan, delivered an drawing lesson. Using primary sources found from the land and alternative drawing styles the students created a body of work that was then featured in the accordion book.
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Drawing styles included: Blind, Line, Continuous, Wrapping and upside down drawing. 
Materials: Handmade charcoal, pen and pencil.
Beth Toner showed us how to do the accordion fold and the importance of layout. Focusing on creating conversations around the relationship between text and image. 
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Skills: Assemble A5 accordion book. Review artwork and layout design. Use designer grids. Combine text and images.
Materials: Drawings, recycled paper, grids and large sheets of white paper.
Katie Kenny demonstrated how to transform natural material into a low relief book cover. The book cover design inspired by drawings or the Irish landscape. Different shapes, textured and colours overlap to build an image. 
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Skills: Sculpting and designing.
Materials: Drawing, tracing paper, cardboard, tape, glue, leaves, flowers, trigs, shellac.
Presentation of our Unit of Learning
Outline the learning content
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