Managing the Art Room

As an art teacher, you know managing the art room is a full-contact sport! Through a blend of unique strategies, you must hold students accountable, manage materials and resources, design procedures to keep the art room running efficiently, and establish a creative learning environment. That’s a lot to juggle all at once! In this course, you will examine and apply current research and strategies for effectively managing your art room. Through reflection, you will explore your understanding of social identities and how they influence students’ interaction with the world around them. You will leave this course having constructed a complete classroom management action plan for immediate use in your current teaching practice.

For the official course description, see the course syllabus or Graduate Catalog.

Required Materials

No text required for this course.

Additional Materials

Computer with basic audio and video output equipment
Internet access (broadband recommended)
Basic computing skills (see AOEU’s Technology Requirements)
Access to AOEU’s online learning platform, Brightspace, to view course content, submit assignments, and engage in discussion (provided)
Word-processing platform (Microsoft Office, Pages, Google Docs)

Graduate Credits

All courses will now close at 11 PM Central time on the 27th of each month. Graduate Credits 3 Graduate Credits

Price Graduate Credit $1197.00

Timeline

Mon 8 Sun

Sep 6 Weeks Oct 31

Upcoming Course Run Dates

Sep 6 Oct 31

Oct 4 Nov 28

Nov 1 Dec 26

Dec 6 Jan 30

Jan 3 Feb 27

AOEU Course Code

ARE534

Morningside Course Code

EDUC500 AOE034

Course Objectives

Reflect upon professional practices to extend knowledge, improve instruction, and refine a personal management philosophy.
Synthesize current research in the field.
Analyze a variety of effective instructional and management strategies.
Examine how individuals' identities are shaped by the social and cultural groups they belong to and how that can impact classroom management.
Apply successful management strategies for working with targeted populations.
Develop a comprehensive classroom management action plan.

Course Breakdown

Week 1

Personal Culture and Self-Reflection

Consider how your unique position relates to your challenges and successes with classroom management.
Illustrate your learning and ideas for management in the art studio through sketchnotes.

Week 2

Building Relationships and Classroom Environment

Create a culture of care by building positive relationships with students and parents.
Implement tools to create a more welcoming classroom environment.

Week 3

Classroom Expectations

Examine case studies featuring practicing colleagues in art education and benefit from their experience and ideas.
Evaluate your classroom routines and how they are established in your art room.
Revise how you communicate classroom expectations to students.

Week 4

Strategies From the Field

Choose a component for creation or revision:
Organizing your art room.
Creating a cleanup visual for your classroom.
Designing and developing a time management plan.

Week 5

Choose Your Challenge

Examine management topics specific to you and your teaching context.
Present your research in the form of an annotated bibliography or research paper.

Week 6

Intervention, Support, and Discipline

Review strategies for what happens when students make poor choices.
Create a student support plan.

Week 7

Classroom Management Plan

Explore management strategies for online classrooms.
Create a detailed classroom management plan for the virtual or in-person classroom.

Week 8

Classroom Management Reflection

Reflect on your evolution as an educator as a result of the content from this class. Set reasonable goals for future growth as you anticipate next steps in your learning.

Classroom Management Programs

A sample assignment from Week 2 of the class Managing the Art Room

1. Research

Learn about the different classroom environments. Explore a variety of meaningful resources and approaches to building relationships with students and parents.

2. Discussion

Why is building a positive classroom environment where all students feel physically and psychologically safe the best classroom management strategy? How can you gauge if students feel this level of safety in your classroom?

3. Practical, Hands-On Application

Create and submit a tool to implement in your classroom to create a more welcoming classroom environment for students in the selected subgroup. Include an introductory paragraph explaining how students will benefit from this tool.

What do past course participants think?

Hundreds of art teachers have taken the course Managing the Art Room. Here’s what they actually think — without cherry-picking.
(12-month rolling average from all post-course survey respondents – Updated 1/28/2021)

94.96%

Course content was relevant and current.

89.7%

Instructor was knowledgeable and provided value-added contributions.

99.26%

 I achieved the goals I set at the beginning of the course.   

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