After our discussion on art literacy through assessment, please post a response to this reflection:
1. I believe this is one thing I am doing well (or would like to celebrate) in my classroom with regard to fostering art literacy through assessment.
2. This is one assessment strategy I would like to try in my classroom/ or a lingering question I have for a fellow art educator regarding their use of assessment to foster art literacy.
7 comments:
I always try to find new or different ways to incorporate writing to show student understanding. I am constantly changing classroom teacher ideas to fit our content area. I like how Cindy uses the D,P,N for her scoring guide and want to modify mine to reflect this. I also like how Rae used a rubric with her student's narratives-I am going to try something similar for the narrative art my students just completed.
Melissa
I have given student self assessment of artwork a place of high importance in my classroom in the past (incorporating their use of art vocabulary). I continue to try new ways of including student peer assessment across grade levels, and am finding much success with it already this year, grades K-5. I am really impressed with the extent to which Melissa uses student notebooks/sketchbooks in her classroom. I utilize mine primarily for student self reflection/assessment, as well as planning artwork. I would like to encourage students to log their learning and thinking more in their sketchbooks.
Kelly
Happy New Year to you all!
I really meant to respond to our art teachers' meeting early but things got so busy with the big Willy Wonka scenery and props the art department was working on in Dec. What do you do with scenery when it is done?? Anybody doing Willy Wonka?
As far as responding to our question I have been so happy to see how much my students learn through the sketchbook reflections of my 5th graders and when I give the other students a couple key questions about their lesson and they simply write on the back of their art or on a seperate paper and attach it. Art literacy is developed post students using the words I now post on my white board (thank you Allison-I learn so much from each of you!). See you soon team!! Mara
@Melissa - Thank you for our discussion about student generation of rubrics/scoring guides (prompting students to identify expectations for a given artwork), and then having them assess themselves with regard to the criteria they set. We should talk more about this at our next PLC - I think we could all benefit from your idea.
Kelly
I like the way Melissa is doing her peer review/assessment. Our program review does mention peer review and students creating their own rubrics and their own peer reviews. I plan on trying something like this soon.
Rae
My 5th grade students have recently been working on a small sand painting project. I gave them a list of criteria to follow and upon the completion of the project each student had to write about their work in their Art journal. I have also had a pair of students read one anothers journals and look at their sand painting and then respond to some questions that we generated as a class. The students "grade" one anothers projects and write their response in the journal. They have really gotten into positively critiquing one anothers work as well as asking further questions about the piece. Once they realized another student would read their description and story they took much more care in the writing process.
Leslyn
Through Judy, a substitute for Allison, I was made aware of a wonderful assessment based on the elememnts and principles of art. I am eager to develop one similar to this idea. Betsy
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