Assessment Implementation

While assessments are not the most exciting thing to do in the art room, many districts require them. Finding assessments...

Students often create a work of art, turn it in, and are ready to move onto the next project. As...

After the first few months of school, I like to assess my students with a project-based midterm in which my...

Did you know online quizzes can be good for more than telling you what celebrity you most resemble? Using online...

It’s no secret many people don’t think of the fine arts as real academic subject areas. As art teachers, we...

Educational fads are part of teaching. New ideas are introduced, integrated, and then later abandoned in favor of other innovations....

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

The search for the perfect critique is neverending. And, if we’re being honest, the search for even a halfway decent...

“What can I do so that I don’t have a D in art? Can you give me some extra credit?”...

When I first started teaching, I dreaded the end of the grading period. Students lined up wanting extra credit who...

Back in my early days of teaching, I was always a bit hesitant to take away studio time for critiques,...