Work Experience- Day Three

Work Experience 


Today was my third day of experience and it started with a free double period first thing. In this time the teacher wanted me to mount up a students work. To do this successfully I made sure to photograph the original laid out work before I took sections off to glue them down to make sure I would put them back in the original place. This worked well as the end result looks the same as the original and the teacher was happy with how it turned out. 


After this I prepared the studio for the lesson by putting the students books out. I think this lesson went well because I managed to help the students with computer query’s so that the teacher didn’t have to take them all. This lesson was mainly independent mood board work so I didn’t need to help much so in between helping I decided to also continue making samples so that I can get lots of these done. 


In this lesson I wanted to complete a target I set for myself yesterday that was to go up to students if they looked confused to help them before they ask for help or before the teacher was asked. This went well as I managed to help a student with computer query to help him before he needed to ask the teacher, I think this was also successful as he felt he could then later as me again to help him. 


In the next lesson we completed screen printing again which went really well as we managed to do it quicker than the last lesson as we where more confident in this technique as we did it a few days ago. Again in this lesson not all the transfer dyes papers got heat pressed so I decided to stay after school again to complete these so the teacher wouldn’t have to do it before the next lesson. When doing this I realised that the last class that I printed I only did it once instead of one then changed the papers directions 90° and reprinting it, once noticing my error I put them back in the heat press so they would be ready for there lesson. However this was not an issue as they had not had there lesson yet and me printing them wouldn’t have taken anymore time away form there lesson as if I wasn’t not here they would be only starting to print them in that lesson. 


I think that today went well as I managed to get a lot of preparatory work done for the next few classes and I pushed myself to speak to the students even more before they ask for help. 


Today I further pushed my independence when mounting work up and I think I could develop this further by seeing if I think there is anything else I could do. 

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