Instructional Strategies

Picture this: 8 art students walk into an art room filled to the brim with beautiful art supplies. They all...

It’s easy to get overwhelmed with grading when you give students a sketchbook assignment every week. For me, 5 classes...

We’ve all seen these cliché art lessons–the lessons you immediately think of when you think of “art class.” Perhaps you even...

I love my job and I love my students, so I try to avoid being gone as much as possible....

If you’re anything like me, you can never get enough good sketchbook ideas. I’m always looking for ways to engage students...

When it comes to ordering supplies, most of us pull out our trusty art ed catalogs and settle in for...

    I love using and teaching with graphic novels. Of course, there’s the obvious connection to Pop Art and...

When we talk about collaboration in the art room, many teachers’ minds, including my own, go straight to collaborative projects,...

21st-century students tend to be excellent communicators. Wait…let me rephrase that. 21st-century students tend to be excellent communicators when the...

Do you ever find yourself dragging through a slide presentation while your students have that disengaged, bored-to-death look in their...

The release of the AOE Studio Classes and their focus on hands-on learning has me thinking a lot about the issues of...

Art Teachers everywhere are tired of seeing them. You know what I’m talking about—the dreaded corner sun. To some, a...