Have you found yourself bombarded with student questions after introducing a new topic or technique? Have you experienced seeing your students struggle after presenting a lesson that you thought was air-tight? You aren't alone. Use micro-training principles along with a pedagogical approach for your own advantage. What is a micro-training? It's a quick 2-4 minute presentation or graphic with concise, targeted content with one objective and a micro-assessment. Does that sound like what you do for each lesson, or each project? All too often, we ramble for 15 minutes or longer, and then have an assessment that is completely unrelated to our learning objective. Beyond this lack of cohesion, our lessons perhaps don't offer learners who process slowly or through interaction opportunities to practice in a low-stakes environment before being assessed. Remember, of of the best ways to learn is through making mistakes!
This micro-training is for you if you think that you may have students who are feeling a little lost. Feel free to check out this slideshow (in presentation mode) to refresh yourself on the basics of scaffolding an art lesson. Maximize your teaching time by using the Gradual Release Model. The best part is that this micro-training models the model it's teaching. If you want the plan for this presentation, it's here. Thanks for reading and happy teaching!