Expectations

Finding ways to motivate students can be tough, especially at the secondary level. If you’re looking for a way to...

Because students work at different speeds, one of the most challenging parts of planning can be pacing. On one hand,...

Imagine you’ve just completed a great day of painting with your elementary students. They worked hard creating beautiful pieces. They...

As we all know, 60 minutes isn’t a lot of time to teach a lesson. Sometimes having all the supplies...

  As art teachers, we abuse our hands. We wash them until they bleed. We develop callouses from cutting. We experience excessive...

If this is your first year of teaching at the elementary level, you might’ve been inundated with pee pants horror...

Dealing with a long-term absence is a complicated situation and one rarely dealt with in art education. This week, Tim...

Some of the messiest areas in our classrooms are the tables where students have been busy creating. As a self-proclaimed clean...

One of my biggest pet peeves as a teacher is repeating directions shortly after giving them. I knew I needed...

When I first started teaching art from a cart, I found one of my biggest challenges was effective classroom management. When...

How do you begin class each day? Is it a “do-now” activity? Do you read the agenda, objectives, and outcomes...

Other than playing on cell phones, I can’t think of anything students love more than listening to music. I wish...