7 Photography Lessons Done For You

Posted in Homeschool students, the high school perspective

While my first year of teaching was 10 years ago, I still have some pretty distinct memories of excitement and terror when I was handed my schedule; 

Darkroom Photography

Digital Photography

Jewelry/Metals

Foundations

Sculpture

I had no experience or background in jewelry/metals, and while I’d taken a film photography class in college, taking a class, and teaching one ( and being the one in charge of mixing the chemicals), is no joke.

My biggest fear was that I would mix all of the chemicals wrong, and in turn destroy of all of my students. Luckily my previous photography professor was willing to go over the instructions with me, and all went well.

I worked 12-13 hour days teaching and writing lesson plan after lesson plan after lesson plan, and then grading. And I LOVED IT. Turns out 10 years later, I’m still a pretty big fan of writing lessons plans, does that make me crazy?

Fun fact: I now teach 3 courses online, and my handy dandy computer program just told me that I have 453 lessons stored, ummm, that’s a lot. 

While I”m a champ when it comes to writing lessons, coming up with projects, and creating rubrics, I”m not such a champ at organizing, so basically there are a billion files saved in one folder, and that folder is called my desktop. ( insert cringe)

Now, I”m working on getting my act together, and as I do so, I”m adding things to my Teachers Pay Teachers site, and I’m posting a lot of it on here for free, for you!

So since we’re talking about photography problems, here are some tools and lessons: