Instructional Strategies

Although movies are sometimes cast in a bad light by administrators and parents, we know that a good movie can...

You might adore them. You may despise them. Either way, memes are part of our contemporary Internet environment, and they...

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

I recently read an article about surprising ways our brains work, and it stated, “Despite being one of our five main...

I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Alicia Peters, an art professor from St. Joseph Minnesota, to discuss...

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

The Art of Education is proud to announce a project we’ve been working on behind the scenes for several months now....

Looking outside the field of art education is a great way to enhance your practice. There are so many wonderful connections...

How many of you love painting with paint? Not that kind of paint!  This kind of paint! The computer program,...

When teaching about Egypt, I always enjoyed reading the book Into the Mummy’s Tomb to my fourth graders. With two,...

    I was in the middle of a one-point perspective lesson with my fifth graders. I set my pencil...

There is an image making the virtual rounds of a group of children having just finished an art class. In...