• Subscribe to Blog via Email

    Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 4,531 other subscribers

3 Tips to Make Assessing Your Students Easier

3 Tips to Make Assessing Your Students Easier

Patty Palmer from Deep Space Sparkle asked me to share tips about assessment with her Member’s Club.    I am no expert on assessment, but I thought I could share a few good ideas about what works for me when assessing my students in art.  If you are not a member of the Member’s Club, you can still see my 3 top tips for assessment by watching the video below. How do you assess your students?  Do you have any tips … Read more…

Art Rubric for Elementary

Art Rubric for Elementary

Do you use rubrics for self-assessment with your students?   I developed this rubric based on others I had seen online.  I wanted to get my students thinking more about their artwork and writing a few sentences in reflection.  We haven’t done much writing in art class before, so I didn’t want to overwhelm them.   What do you think?  Do you have any suggestions for my rubric?  (Does everything sound right, but also easy enough for little kids to understand?)  … Read more…