Observation- March 13th

My cooperating teacher had asked me to come up with an activity for her painting section to do. The night before I was frantic looking through material and trying to decide how to teach them about color theory and color schemes.  I will admit that I felt a bit overwhelmed with all the freedom that she had given me and was a bit unsure of what she was exactly expecting out of me.  I barely slept that night as I was full of anticipation and nervous about teaching a lesson, as this would be my first time.  I came up with an exercise that I would walk the students through.  The day before students were introduced to the color wheel and had to create a color wheel of their own.  Today I began with students taking out their palettes and passing out new paper.  I directed students to fold their piece of paper into six sections and label appropriately: value-tints and shades, complementary, analogous, triadic, and split complementary.  I then followed with explaining what each concept of color meant and had the students display it in the designated box.
I felt that the students responded well.  I did have a few student who were absent the day before and had not done a color wheel yet.  Lucky for me, I had Mrs. C to take those students aside and get them caught up as I continued to instruct the rest of the classroom.  Now I realize that in my own classroom I will not be that fortunate to have extra help with students who have fallen behind.  During my explanation of what analogous colors are I had a small group of girls who were chattering in the corner.  Instead of interrupting the class, I waited until I was done with instruction and then followed up with the girls after.  Of course, they had not been listening and I had to explain the concept over to them.  My cooperating teacher advised me to not let them get away with this so easily or in other words not be so nice.  Next time I shouldn't continue until I have their attention or afterwards give them a stern explanation of why this behavior will not be tolerated in the future.