21st CENTURY SKILLS
ARTISTIC BEHAVIOR
TEACHING and LEARNING
CHOICE CENTERS
ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENT
Artistic BehaviorsArtistic behaviors are honored and noted in the ongoing daily assessment process.
Choice-based art education uses multiple forms of assessment to support student and teacher growth.
Some of the artistic behaviors choice teachers value include:
- Risk-taking
- Following a line of thought over time
- Going deep with a preferred medium or technique
- Playing and experimenting
- Bringing aspects of their life into their art
Teacher-created documentation captures observations of students’ artistic behaviors, needs and accomplishments.
Teachers create easy-to-manage record keeping:
- Large charts where students can input their daily center use
- Mini journals that students fill out at class end
- Notes in teacher plan books
- Digital photo records of finished student work
- Portfolios, both digital and paper
Rubrics are
negotiated between students
and teachers and are broad enough to affirm diverse learning styles.
Below
is a rubric created by a grade five
class. These rubrics were generated while viewing student artwork
as
examples of excellence, selected by the teacher. Examples show a
range of
materials. Some represent weeks of work while others are simple
sketches
done in minutes.
WHAT DOES EXCELLENCE LOOK LIKE
IN ART
CLASS?
- Artists get
ideas for their artwork from their personal experiences,
resources (books, other artists' work, etc.) and from art materials.
- Artwork
shows good effort and planning.
- Artwork is
complete. All areas and parts are carefully thought out
and the artist is satisfied that the artwork is "done."
- All 3-D
artwork is built to last - no loose pieces held on by
tape, no clay attachments that are not securely scored together.
- Artists
includes some of the elements of art such as line, color,
pattern, texture and shape and some principles of art such as rhythm,
contrast
and balance.
- Artists
show respect for materials and tools by cleaning up their
workspace before moving to a new center and at the end of class.
- Artists
shows respect for classmates' artwork by not touching and
by sharing positive comments.
- Artists are always productive in class with their own artwork or helping a classmate or teacher or researching ideas for future artworks.
Self-Assessment
and Collaborative
Assessment
- Self-assessment occurs on a regular basis, both informally and with self-reflection writing. Collaborative assessment includes peer coaching, group sharing, curating exhibits and conferencing with the teacher.
- Students are coached to work with and through mistakes.
- Students reflect on struggles and brainstorm alternate strategies to work through difficulties.
- Students are given multiple opportunities to revisit media or techniques that were not successful for them at first.
- Student coaches work with peers for problem solving and reflection on process.
- Preparation for art exhibits involves writing or dictating artist statements to accompany work.
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