Assessment

Interest in Teaching for Artistic Behaviors, or TAB, is at an all-time high. Many teachers want to learn more about...

  Sarah Dougherty, Visual Arts Curriculum Coordinator and Turnaround Arts Program Coordinator for the Des Moines Public Schools, dropped in...

With the beginning of the school year quickly approaching, many of you have probably started to plan out your first...

Have you ever glanced at a rubric and had your eyes glaze over and your mind tune out? Rubrics can be...

    I recently took part in a discussion about the merits of teacher evaluations based on student growth. This...

For the last day of 5th-grade art this year, I had my students gather up all their artwork from the...

Today we welcome a guest post by AOE’s Educational Director Heather Crockett who is going to let us in on...

If your students blog about their art as mine currently do, you understand the rich reflection that blogging can produce....

I am often looking for fun and quick ways to use formative assessments in my classroom. Recently the music teacher...

If you want to call me an assessment snob, go ahead. You see, in my mind, a multiple choice test...

A number of years ago, when my district was organizing an introduction of a 1:1 iPad program, I was asked if...

For those who aren’t familiar with the concept, a Socratic Seminar is a classroom discussion that focuses on big ideas...