Run the Art Room

Are you excited for a fresh, new school year but are unsure where to start planning? Over the next six episodes, we equip you with tips and tricks to add to your classroom management toolkit.

Stay tuned for best practices and systems around entering and exiting the art room, art material prep, distribution, and collection, attention getters, and more! Join Keisha Casiano from The Art of Education University as she brings eleven art teachers from around the world together to help YOU successfully run your art room.

Watch The YouTube Series
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6

Everything You Need to Know About Classroom Management in the Art Room

What Do New Teachers Need to Know About Classroom Management? (Ep. 304)

5 Essential Tips for Managing High School Students

Art Room Management 101 (Ep. 004)

Learn How to Play Teachers vs Students—A Fun Classroom Management Game

Quick Classroom Management Strategies (Ep. 6)

5 Classroom Management Strategies for the Art Room

The Benefits of Using an Art Room Mantra

8 Classroom Management Tips No Choice-Based Teacher Can Be Without

How to Cure the “No-Name” Epidemic

Behavior Management at the Elementary Level

3 Ideas to Help Discover Your Classroom Management Style (Ep. 055)

Calming the Classroom Chaos (Ep. 207)

Why Meeting Your Kids at the Door Is So Important

Classroom Management Resources

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Article

Easy Glaze Distribution With Zero Clean Up

  There’s this feeling I get when I close the kiln for the last time in the school year. It’s…
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Article

Make One Small Change to Solve All Your Art Room Problems

  Is large paper difficult for your youngest students to handle? Do you blow through supplies, like paper and other…
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Article

4 Ways to Collect Your Students’ Digital Artwork

So your students just finished this amazing project using technology. They were engaged in the lesson, they worked hard, their…
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Video

How To Make Your Paint Mobile

Figuring out the best way to store and distribute liquid tempera paint can be tricky. Do you go with squeeze…
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Article

The Perfect Project to Keep Your Middle Schoolers on Track

In any given middle school art class, students of all abilities, capacities and talents are part of the classroom environment….
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11 Things Successful Teachers Do on the Weekend

The end of the day on Friday seems like the end of a long marathon. Exhaustion sets in, and you…
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Article

10 Tips to Handle an Imploding Art Lesson

I could feel the beads of sweat building on the back of my neck as I watched twenty-six fourth graders…
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Article

How to Pare Down Your Paintbrushes

Because minimalism means ‘paring down to the essentials’ let’s ask ourselves, “What is essential when it comes to the supplies…
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Managing the Art Room

Clay, paint, ink, water spills, messy hands, cutting tools, slippery floors, and busy bodies. Classroom management in the art room is like no other subject area. When it is well-designed, the art room is a magical place. And when it goes awry, it can be chaotic.

Leverage best practices, design an efficient space, and ideate a classroom management system unique to you and your students.

Join fellow art teachers who understand the challenges and celebrations of art teacher life. Leave with new ideas, new friends, and a plan ready to implement right away.