Deciding the content to put in each lesson plan is one of the many choices a teacher gets to make. It is important that these lessons are engaging and that the teacher can make connections to prior knowledge, life experiences, and interests. The identity portrait lesson I teach to 8th grade students engages students because it involves making a self portrait. This made students think critically about themselves and their facial feature proportions.

During demonstrations, it can sometimes be difficult to gather everyone around the table so all students have a view of your hands. For this reason, using technology like the ELMO can be great because it projects your work space up onto the screen. I almost always project my demonstration when teaching because it helps students view the techniques better.

Technology is one of the biggest pushes in education today. I try to incorporate it whenever I can. For example, students have used it throughout the boggart printmaking lesson. First, students watched a short clip of a scene from Harry Potter, which was about fear and got the students interested in the project. Then the students made prints and took pictures of their prints on their Ipads. From there, they used the Sketchbook app to edit and transform their prints.