14 - How to Document Student Progress and Final Projects with Kevin Kowalski

Have your students shown you social media videos of the magical “trees” that are created by the mocha diffusion process? IF SO, the video was most likely created by Kevin Kowalski.  Kevin is a High school ceramics teacher in Orange County California.  In this episode we talk creating positive connections with Kids.  He explains how excited he is by the interaction he is getting from his students using social media and the chat function in Zoom.  We discuss the challenge of being in 2 places at the same time in the ceramics classroom when teaching both hand building and wheel throwing.  He tells us how this ONLINE LEARNING has given him the opportunity to create reusable content that he plans to use AFTER we return to in person teaching.   We dive deeper into what’s working during virtual learning and he details a new procedure he uses for monitoring student progress and final projects. Lastly, he tells us about several workshops he is developing for all of us to learn about Mocha Diffusion and Soda Firing.