By Colleen Zeiss
Enrichment Gallery Walks is an opportunity for enrichment teachers and their students to showcase their hard work for the entire Junior High community. It is a special time for us to come together and celebrate our classmates and colleagues. Traditionally, these Gallery Walks take the form of open classroom tours and large-scale presentations in front of the entire Junior High. However, because of the surge in cases due to the omicron variant, we found ourselves pivoting.
Once again, we re-imagined traditions and created some innovative new ones. For the second quarter, our enrichment teachers created Virtual Gallery Walks. Read below for the rundown. A special thanks and shout-out to our participating Junior High Quarter 2 enrichment class teachers: Dr. Flagg, Mr. Davis, Mrs. Gangl, and Mr. Valiulis.
Teacher: Dr. Flagg
Class: Innovators’ Studio
Virtual Format: Video
Synopsis: Students worked all quarter to design, develop, and execute a complicated and location-specific marble run. The video highlights their hard work and final projects. This video also includes the students discussing their process as designers.
Teacher: Mr. Valiulis
Class: Yearbook
Virtual Format: Open Zoom-in Yearbook Class
Synopsis: The yearbook class opened up their classroom via Zoom to the entire Junior High. Students could get a virtual glimpse of the hard work and hours of designing, editing, and more editing that goes into the creation of the yearbook.
Teacher: Mrs. Gangl
Class: Debate
Virtual Format: Recorded Live Debate
Synopsis: Should juveniles be tried and treated as adults? Members of the class debated this important question in a lively and well-researched debate.
Teacher: Mr. Davis
Class: Art
Virtual Format: Student-hosted Video
Synopsis: Students in the art class talk about their self-portraits and the process of sketching, using techniques like the grid method and shading. This student-hosted video includes the students discussing their favorite moments of the creation process and their choices for their self-portraits. It also includes students teaching us about their inspirations for techniques.
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