Volunteer Teacher
10 weeks graphic design class
I joined Saturday School season 11 as a volunteer teacher of a graphic design class. The curriculum lasted 10 weeks, from June to September 2022. It was a wonderful volunteer opportunity. My team has six people, and the class consists of ten high school students.
My beloved volunteer team
4 goals to accomplish
Every classroom must combine four goals into the curriculum to help students develop life and work skills.

1. Self awareness
2. Growth mindset
3. Resilience
4. Prosocial behavior
We agreed that all we would like to do was inspire students who are interested in graphic design to see the possibility of using graphic design in their future education or career. So we designed the class to include the work flow of graphic design as the most important part, allowing students to explore the 'designer mindset' and bring tools to adapt to use in other contexts.
Week 1 - 5
Definition of Art
Let’s students explore the definition of art leading to discussion session. The activities shape students to be open-minded to difference point of views creating safe learning space for everyone in the classroom.
Elements of Art
Moodboard
After explaining moodboard and how to create, we let students create their own moodboard based on their personalities. This activity allows students to apply their knowledge from last week (art element) to create their first moodboard to represent themselves.
Mid-Season reflection
We discovered that our students have differing knowledge background, making it difficult to introduce them to the design process directly, so we developed a design framework for their graduated project to assist them in completing the design process easily and reflecting on what they have done.
Week 6 - 10
We intend to educate students about the working process of graphic design and present the graduate project which is a poster design based on the concept of 'Prosocial.' Students have their brainstorming keywords that relate to their interests in social issues.
Brainstorming session
After the brainstorming session, they will be ready to choose one keyword to be the topic of their poster. They needed to finish the framework and design the artwork.
The development process
Exhibition day
Let’s take a group photo together~

Our students were very excited to took a photo with Bangkok’s governer. (I really wanted to take a picture with him, but I didn't get the chance. 🌧)

💖Thanks to my fantastic team. They are so supportive.💖
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