Assessment Design

I am about to enter my fifteenth year of teaching elementary art. That means I’ve logged almost a decade and...

It’s easy to find excuses to skip critiques in our art rooms. There’s not enough time. We don’t feel confident...

Rubrics are serious business in the high-accountability culture of education. However, they often come across as dry and uninteresting, and...

It’s never been easier to share what you do in the art room with others. From blogs and online portfolios...

I enjoy coming up with visual art assessment tools. We all want to see that our students authentically understand important...

For many visual art teachers, time with students is precious and fleeting. Sometimes you have less than an hour with students...

For many art teachers, assessment is a four-letter word. Assessments eat class time and don’t always provide quality information. Most...

There is no hiding from it, technology is everywhere, and it has made its way into many classrooms around the...

If I had to make a list of the top ten things I dislike about teaching, “grading” would be numbers...