Ed. 3601 Class Log #3

Education 3601 - Drama
Class Log #3 – Jan. 19, 10

Activities: Portfolio presentation/discussion with Leeanne
* Look into CIG Improv games yo!
Portfolio stuff:
- Cover letter then criminal record check
- Online ish --> good idea!
- Intro stuff --> then table of contents
- * Look into Faculty of Ed. Portfolio guidelines
- Each section has a table of contents too --> good idea!
- Rationale along with table of contents --> why’s it in there?
- Rationale HUGE with John; AS to be in there
- (Side note) --> For off hour’s fun stuff, think about starting an online callboard etc.
- Classroom management (regular) and drama management separate -> two distinct feels (agreed)
- For letters of reference --> Think about photocopies to highlight specific good things
- Rationale bust for basically ALL of your stuff! Especially random personal stuff
- *** Relate everything in your portfolio to KSA’s! Important to have them learned!
- Unit plan/Assesment HUGE!!! Big importance! --> Include just a few (like 3) lesson plans with your units
- Include your final evaluations! Reverse order; PS3-Ed. 2500
- * Think about taking photos of final projects etc.
- Fine Arts Council --> FineFACTA
- Keep some reflection stuff in your portfolio!
- Feel free to email Leeanne for more help/idea’s etc. ^_^
- *** Make sure all tabs are OUT!!!! (The ones for separating sections)
- * Think about adding various things even related to things outside of drama stuff --> ie. drumming/teaching drums, vocal jazz, make CD’s with various creative things (like the power point done for Shelly Scott’s class, Bio Poem etc.)
- * Think about doing “Final Directing” class in last semester
- * Look for Drama Programs --> ones I did production duties on etc.
- * Include scholarships I have received, such as CO-OP and Jason Lang
- Professional growth plan --> PSI yo!
- Color coding --> GOOD idea!

For log:
What is the value of portfolio’s? (Leeane/John talk) *Do my own reflection on this
- See your development/progress of you/your teaching
- Great for reflection by physically seeing progress
- “Look at what you’ve done” --> profound statement especially with regards to growth --> look at what else you have done ie. making bulletins etc.
- Way to get better quickly! And what you may need to work on
- Log books mad IMPORTANT!!

Content/Resource assignment:
Discipline --> Movement
Six resources --> Annotated bibliography
12 games --> 4 each
Team Most Excellent! Christine Hauck and Naomi Snelgrove

Resources:
- Play Director’s Survival Guide by James W. Rogers and Wanda C. Rogers
- The Second City Guide to Improv in the Classroom by Katherine S. Mcknight and Mary Scruggs
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Acting
- The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher by Harry K. Wong and Rosemary Tripi Wong
- Improvisation for the Theatre by Viola Spolin
- The Blunt Playwright by Clem Martini
- Improvisation: Learning Through Drama by David W. Booth and Charles J.Lundy *GREAT resource! Used it in PSI!
- Puppets and Masks: Stagecraft and Storytelling by Nan Rump

Other log junk:
- Sunday bad for Naomi
- *Zucchini --> Trust exercise from first day!
- Got a ten minute set-up for our presentation for movement

Reflection on the value of portfolio’s:
Considering the points that had been brought up in class, there is not much else I can add to the list of the importance of doing a portfolio. I have to agree with all the points that came up and I do feel no matter how much effort that needs to be put into one, it is totally worth the time. One of the most beneficial aspects of it, I believe, is the idea that you will get better quickly. It’s because of all the reflection (whether on lesson plans, over the entire course of Education, logs, etc.) that we as future teachers will be far better prepared than those who do not document their progress. At first I thought of these portfolio’s as just another task I’d have to wade through in order to get my diploma, but now that I’ve seen what can be done with them and just how important they are from first-hand experience, I am dying to get cracking on mine to bring it up to snuff.