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20 Quick Formative Assessments You Can Use TODAY
We are always looking for a better glimpse inside our students brains. While we are never going to figure out the mysteries of the pre-teen or kindergarten mind, there are some tools to help us...
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It’s no secret that assessment can be a big controversy in art education, however, until you are asked to give a multiple choice test to your students, you will not know the true pain! I wrote all...
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3 Simple Tips to Make Tracking Student Growth Manageable
I just got off the phone with a dedicated teacher of 20 plus years from Ohio. As you may know, Ohio is going under rapid changes when it comes to the new teacher evaluation system focusing on showing...
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A Sample SLO for Art Teachers
Art-specific growth samples are hard to come by. In fact, many schools simply throw something like a 5th Grade Band assessment example at the “Arts Teachers” (theater, music and visual arts) and...
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Making SLO’s in the Art Room Manageable
If you implemented a growth goal this year only to find the outcome wasn’t what you expected, perhaps you didn’t choose the right type of content to measure. One of the most important and tough...
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3 Keys to Effective Art Room Feedback
If you are an education nerd like me, the Grant Wiggins article “Seven Keys to Effective Feedback” gets your wheels spinning! The piece, published in the September 2012 issue of Educational Leadership,...
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Easily Organize Your Standards with a Planning Matrix
The process of rewriting my district’s middle school visual arts Student Learning Expectations forced me to reflect upon the importance of the standards in my curriculum. More importantly, it required...
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9 Steps to Efficiently Rewrite Your Student Learning Expectations
Editor’s Note: Yesterday, AOE writer Ian brought you a controversial position on grading. He’s uh, not going to do it anymore. Today, writer Cassidy shares 9 Steps to Efficiently Rewrite Your Student...
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Use Socrative for Easy Formative Assessments in the Art Room
One of the best things about formative assessment is that it delivers instant and useful feedback to you and your students. Improvement and learning can take place right away! Getting this information...
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What You Need to Know About Standards-Referenced Grading in Art
If you’ve heard anything about grading in any subject lately, it is probably all about standards-referenced grading. Today we’re specifically talking about standards-referenced grading in the art room....
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The Key to Helping Your Students Talk About Art
How do your students respond to and talk about art? A while back, I was responsible for grading my students on a question quite similar to the one above. When quarterly grades would roll around,...
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How to Write a High-Quality Art Assessment
If you want to call me an assessment snob, go ahead. You see, in my mind, a multiple choice test just isn’t a good enough arts assessment. It’s like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole....
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20 Practical SLO Ideas for Busy Art Teachers
As I sat down to read one of our favorite books, The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday, to my daughter the other night, I saw the concept of Student Growth played out in the most innocent form....
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A Fun Formative Assessment Tool for All Grade Levels
I am often looking for fun and quick ways to use formative assessments in my classroom. Recently the music teacher at my school was telling me about an app called Plickers that helps him test his...
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Why Rubrics Deserve a Second Look
Today we welcome a guest post by AOE’s Educational Director Heather Crockett who is going to let us in on a rubric secret…rubrics aren’t all bad! Read on to learn more! Rubrics get a bad rap....
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A Vision for Art Education Part Two: Student Learning Outcomes
I recently took part in a discussion about the merits of teacher evaluations based on student growth. This national trend to find a method for quantifying art education comes labeled in several...
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Everything You Need to Know to Write a Stellar Rubric
Have you ever glanced at a rubric and had your eyes glaze over and your mind tune out? Rubrics can be great tools for teaching and learning when they’re used in the right way. Misuse them, however, and...
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A Guide for Assessing a TAB-Based Art Program
Interest in Teaching for Artistic Behaviors, or TAB, is at an all-time high. Many teachers want to learn more about using it in their classrooms but get stuck on some common questions. For example: if...
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Can We Please Stop with the Participation Grades?
I’m sitting there staring at my grade book, and this one grade is just staring back at me. It’s a C-, and that grade bothers me because it just doesn’t feel right. I think the kid should have a C...
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Use This Flowchart to Help Your Students Write Authentic Artist Statements
Writing an artist statement can be a daunting task for middle school students. More often than not, students become stuck on what to write, feeling like they might say something “dumb.” Or, sometimes...
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