This week at the UAYSFA was quite successful for all of our students. From the get go the students took to their projects and all made solid headway towards their end goals for the project. They all seemed very invested in what they were doing and any issues with students having a lack of ideas has seemed to melt away.
There were a few issues that arose during the class involving timing. Some of the students found themselves having to wait for things to dry on their projects. For the most part they had other things to work on for their projects but if they hadn't it could have become a real issue. Another one of our students chose a project that is going to be finished before the rest of the class. We decided to have her make another project using the same guidelines and this seemed to satisfy her. I think this works due to the open ended nature of the project but for many lessons and especially those taught in the regular classroom, this would not work. Overall, the students seem happy and engaged in the work and the problems that arose were relatively unimportant and easy to handle.
This weeks workshop was great and I am very much looking forward to the coming weeks and to see their projects completed.
