Final FAD 3.0

In my district, the art teachers have 3 assessments tools that we use; a color theory test, that is a pre-and post-assessment used to collect data on student growth, a common assessment for ceramics and an overall portfolio assessment used to give report card grades. While we have 5 units of study that we teach …

3 Things I believe about assessments

Back in May I wrote a post about three things I think about assessments (which you can read here). Today I am revisiting that post and diving deeper into what I believe about assessments, what I have learned about assessments and how it can be applied in the art studio. When looking at my original …

Portfolios as Assessment

Using a portfolio to assess an artist, is the most popular form of assessment in art. From a teacher stand point, the teacher periodically looks at the student’s portfolio, which contains all their artwork, and assesses their growth as an artist. Each teacher may be looking at a wide variety of skills/concepts/themes that they are …

Personalized Learning – A Wicked Problem

According to Koehler & Mishra (2008) “Solutions to wicked problems are often difficult to realize (or maybe even recognize) because of complex interdependencies among a large number of contextually bound variables. Wicked problems, they argue, cannot be solved in a traditional linear fashion because the problem definition itself evolves as new solutions are considered and/or …

Art Studio Redesign

I have a beautiful art studio, especially for a k-4 building. The room is large; it offers a lot of in-studio storage space, a large storage closet, a kiln room and a teacher's office. I have 10 large table, and 30 chairs for the students. I currently have seven tables set up for students to …

Infographic

This week we were challenged to create an infographic on #MakerEd. For my infographic, I focused on how to transform the traditional art room into a TAB Choice Studio. A TAB Choice Studio connects the maker movement into the art studio in an authentic way. TAB stands for Teaching for Artistic Behavior, it is a …

Personalized Learning

I found Richard Culatta’s Ted Talk about reimagining learning, inspiring. He talks about closing the digital divide and how to use technology to transform student-learning experiences, rather than just digitizing traditional learning tools. Culatta’s suggests three ways to help close the digital divide, personalized learning, collaborative problem solving and immediate feedback. Out of the three …