Assessment

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

Isn’t it funny that you can have a group of middle school students who talk the entire class, but the...

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...

Teaching portraiture can be difficult. It’s often something students struggle with and complain about. However, once they see they can...

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

Do you ever have students stand up in front of their peers to present their work in public? Public speaking...

Elementary art students often LOVE art class. It’s one place they are free to be creative, independent, and messy. It’s...

Grading. It’s not at the top of an art teacher’s to-do list. Between managing the art room and creating with...

Each year as I wrap up a semester’s worth of learning in my high school introductory art course, I am...

Art teachers everywhere wrestle with how to balance teaching skills while leaving room for student choice. On the one hand, students...