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with Ronald Reagan Elementary School Our collaborative program with Ronald Reagan Elementary School in Bakersfield, California is set up so that the students are actually teaching in an assigned classroom for a total of four to five art lessons that require them to not only teach the lesson but teach it using power point to show imagery as well. At the conclusion of their teaching experience which includes putting on a final art exhibition complete with inviting parents and administrators to the classroom and giving a power point presentation to explain the artistic process, students are asked to provide a reflection following their pre service teaching experience. One of the questions students must answer in their reflection is “which part of teaching the art lesson did they personally enjoy the most and why?” Students most frequently respond to this with how they were able to take the basic model lesson plan that they were given in class to follow and go beyond it to provide a more meaningful teaching motivation. Whether it be by means of enhancing the lesson with their own set of visuals, a story relevant to the concept of the artist, a vocabulary game of some sort, or charts that the students make to help with the directions of the lesson. Students also develop more confidence about their own artistic abilities through teaching it to
children. This program’s collaboration with the CAI and CSUB pre-service teachers is made possible
by the principal, Dr. Tom Irvin, the school’s art coordinator, Ellen Ansolabehere, and the Reagan
School PTA.
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