Photo Source: coralvssalmon.wordpress.com We love what art teacher, Sunnylee Mowery, over at Coral vs. Salmon instituted to help manage behavior in her classroom. Selecting seven behavior goals for her students to work on - from entering the classroom quietly and raising hands to following directions and cleaning up work stations - she first created an anchor chart to display in the classroom as a visual reminder of appropriate behavior choices, then decided to take it a step further. In an attempt to make things relevant more for her kiddos, at the end of the each period, Sunnylee works together with her students to evaluate how the class did, as a whole, to meet each of the behavioral objectives - adding green 'happy' faces or red 'unhappy' faces next to the written goals depending upon their choices for that day. Students are invited to vote green or red with a simple thumbs up or down and, Sunnylee states, "Surprisingly, the kids are pretty keen judges of how things went." It's simple, but we think this is a great way to get your students involved, help keep behavior goals in the forefront of their minds, and address any behavioral issues in a timely and relevant manner.

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I'm linking up with Ashley again for her 10 pin linky! This weeks topic is Classroom management. Without further ado, here are my top 10 classroom managment pins (in random order, click the pictures to be taken to the source): 1. I really like this reflection page for kids who go to the cool down spot. It uses a lot of pictures which is great for all kids who are upset (the less words the better). It also doesn't have writing lines so it's easier to use with my 1st graders and 3rd graders. AND it would be an easy way to let parents know their child needed the cool down spot. I guess there is a lot I like about this! 2. The Hall of Fame for the clipchart is a great idea! It's easy to implement and it gives kids something to work for. This is also free! Go check it out :) 3. I am definitely going to make a compliment jar like this for next year! 4. Lining up was an issue this year in my room becuase of one child. To make things easier for me and the class, I am having them line up in number order every.single.time. In order to make this fair, I will rotate the number that starts. For example, the second week of school the class will get in line starting with #2 and #1 will be the last in line. The following week #3 will be the line leader and so on. I made this little clip chart for it that includes posters for lining up. 5. I started using Smart Beads last year when I only had 2 students participating. I will definitely being using them again! 6. To move away from the prize box, I bought the Best Behavior Catelog: 7. Next year, I will have 6 students with autism. That's a lot of individual schedules to set up! I plan on making schedule pages like this for each child. When something changes, I'll cross it out and write the change. The aides can set up the visual schedule using this. 8. I know you have all seen this...This challenge will be introduced DAY 1! 9. I'm terrible at keeping up with newletters and when you add in 3 different grade levels, forget it. It's never going to happen. Instead, I'm going to have my students write a letter to their parents every Friday telling them what they learned. 10. Finally, I love this substitute binder. I'm a little late with this so you can be too! Go over and join Ashley's party!

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If you are like me, you need to post Bloom's Taxonomy somewhere in your classroom. If not, you might need to use it in your lesson plans. These mini posters feature the 6 levels, with examples of planning verbs that you may use. Remember - Understand - Apply - Analyze - Evaluate - Create I created these with a painting theme: perfect for art rooms. Clip Art is from my favorite, EduClips

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This year, the paperwork has become more cumbersome than ever! I'm not sure how it is elsewhere, but in NY, it feels like my district is trying to be the overachievers because we are being asked to do things for APPR that other districts haven't even thought of, particularly in the area of the specials teachers! One of the things we had to do this year was choose one class to be observed in. I would personally rather have my observations take place over all of the grade levels I teach, but my union won't let me. Since I'm teaching high school this year, I'd love to be observed there to get feedback, but I was still required to choose one area (and this is all from what our union has decided...sometimes I think they think more about the core area teachers than they do the special area teachers!). I would have chosen a high school level but I'm still being observed by the elementary principal (which doesn't really matter) but the next aspect of our observations is what made me stick with elementary because it will be less work for me in the long run, especially as I get closer to popping out this baby! ;) With whichever class or subject area we have chosen to be observed in, we have to fill out weekly lesson plans (and as rumor has it, next year we will have to do this for ALL of our subject areas/grade levels). And I don't mean just copy off our plan book anymore. We have to have full, written out lessons. If I chose Studio Art, I would have to have complete, written lessons for every day of the week, including daily objectives, bell ringers, exit slips, etc. While I'm working towards being able to do that, I am certainly not doing that now. By choosing an elementary class, my lessons are condensed down to 2-3 day lessons and more manageable to write out. Considering I have 12 different classes to prepare for weekly, I'm taking the easy way out! Last year I created and started using this lesson plan format to write my lessons and organize my grade level curriculum. I printed out a bunch of these templates and simply hand-wrote my lessons, so I was technically already doing this. The administrators liked my template and used it to create a common core template for everyone to use. Of course, when they did that, they left out all of the my art stuff. Now, I had planned on using these templates for my substitute when I go out on maternity leave so for me, the art parts were way more important than the Marzano stuff. I asked if I could alter my original template to include what was missing from theirs, and thankfully, they agreed. Of course, I ended up having to do two revisions because they wanted the Marzano stuff on the front, but I'm still happy with my ending template. This is my new lesson plan template. I have posted this to the SmARTteacher as well so you can find it there. If you open it in Word, you can simply click on the boxes in each category to mark what you are using, and then simply type in all of the information. I created a slightly different one for each level based on what the different listening strands are for K-2, as well as the basic common core math and ELA standards for each grade level. This is my district's lesson plan template for everyone to use.

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For the past couple months I have been putting together a year outline of projects for each month of the school year. I've been doing this in order to clean out the clutter of all the possibilities of projects I could do. First I put together a grid that lists each grade and each month (each month having a theme). I then assigned a project to correspond with the months theme. Its very brief, so much in some cases my project ideas and objectives may be only clear to myself. My next step was to take each grade and break the lessons down day by day. I see my students on a three day rotating schedule so I can estimate I will see them 5-7 times per month depending on breaks, school delays, and assemblies. So far I have created a basic document that allows for a simple lesson break down that can be an easy reference point throughout the month. I start with a cover page detailing month and theme, and then each grade gets a detailed page that explains the lesson (objectives, activity, materials, and references). I'm planning on keeping all documents, past in present, in one binder through out the year which I can hopefully use as a reference point for next years planning. I've attached the kindergarten sample for September below. I realize that as an art teacher you need to remain flexible and always willing to shift course when needed. I would love to do some cross curricular planning with the music teacher hopefully later in the year. I have not seen my classroom (school went under construction this summer and art room is different than what I saw in my interview), I don't know what the status of my supplies are, and i don't know who my co-workers are... This excessive organizing is my answer to the crazy bouncy ball that is constantly in rhythm inside my head! As a first year teacher this was my solution for organizing the year, I would love to hear other strategies that you all use when approaching a new year!

Ok. It's the time of year when students are tired of us and we are...well...exhausted. So, to keep my classes running smoothly, I have decided to implement a self-evaluation for all of my mini-artists. I pass these forms out to each student at the beginning of class and have the students fill out the top portion while I will check the boxes when needed. Since I frequently walk around the room as they are working anyway, I put a check mark in the boxes as they complete each part of the lesson...the listening part...the working part...the staying focused part...and so on. It worked really well with the 1 class I experimented with today, so I'll let you know if it continues to be effective or if it turns out to be WAY too much work. In case you are wondering, for the students who consistently have missing check marks, they will be practicing our 'High 5' expectations during the next art class instead of working on the projects. If you want me to e-mail you the document so you can try it in your art room, leave me your e-mail address in the comments section below.

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If you're looking for a combination of drawing, acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, and sculpture lessons this bundle is for you. This visual art lesson bundle features all lesson plans and presentations rather than classroom management items such as worksheets, sub lessons, and interactive activities. A more affordable option if you already have the supplementary material! This bundle includes: 21 detailed editable lesson plans with national standards, big ideas, essential questions, supplies, goals, objectives, step-by-step instructions. 21 editable Student Evaluation Sheets 21 PowerPoints and Slides Presentations Student Choice Framework 90 task cards (Drawing, Painting & Projects) Drawing Observational Drawing LessonLife-Sized Legs and Shoes Drawing LessonBirds of a Feather Scratchboard ArtOil Pastel Animals LessonBeyond Words Micrography - Drawing with InkThree Mediums Drawing LessonMicroscopic Cell Abstract Art LessonLinear Perspective Workbook and ProjectGrid method worksheetsIntroduction to Ink worksheetsColor Scheme worksheets Acrylics Circle Tree Silhouette LessonRadial Symmetry Dot LessonDecorative Line Animals LessonFavorite Foods Lesson Watercolor Abstract Watercolor LessonColor Wheel Motif LessonSunrise Silhouette LessonWatercolor Technique Animals Lesson Mixed Media Romare Bearden Mixed Media ProjectPast and Future Hands Mixed Media ProjectMixed Media Tea Bag Art Lesson Sculpture Linear Toothpick Sculptures LessonWire Sculptures based on famous Art Movements Student Choice Framework Drawing Prompt Task Cards Painting Prompt Task Cards Project Idea Prompt Task Cards ©2021 A Space to Create These files are the intellectual property of A Space to Create and Sabrina Wingren. They may not be shared with other teachers, friends or anywhere online with public access.

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I am happy to say that I reached my 80% goal in the growth department for my kindergarten SLO! My goal was stated something like this: "80% of students (39) will reach a score in the satisfactory grade level (72%-80%)." I did low-ball it for the grade level that they would reach, but that's what we were told to do. I almost think that next year I'd rather state my SLO's more like this, "80% of students will score 6 points more on their post-assessment." That being said, I will share that I was successful on my 5th grade SLO at reaching my goal as well. Only about 65% of my students reached the goal on the 1st grade SLO, and less than that on my 2nd grade SLO. After discussing it with the art teacher who graded my assessments, we both think it's because the scavenger hunt was just too difficult of a task for their level. My 1st grade rubric for the 6-square drawing assignment also needs to be revamped into more of a check-list. It was hard to grade the post-assessments based on what the rubric said because many students had great horizon lines and backgrounds, but weren't as successful with the subject matter. My rubric dealt more with the subject matter and didn't allow for points to be scored for the craftsmanship in each square, if there was any. But more on that SLO in a later post. I posted about my SLO's when I started blogging back in July...you can see my original post here. I did have to change my grading rubric due to the changes in how our assessments had to be graded at the end of the year. Since I had to swap assessments with another art teacher, presumably one who does not work in the district and would not be there to observe student's cutting skills, I had to take out any observational categories in the rubric (such as students knowing what hand to hold their scissors in). Here is my updated rubric that I used for the pre- and post-assessment. The following are examples of student's pre- and post-assessments. The pre-s are on the left and the post-s are on the right. Improvement at being more precise. Improvement with composition as well as preciseness at cutting on the lines. Improvement at cutting on the lines more precisely. Another improvement with speed and also the length of the snips with scissors. This student had really great control over the scissors at the beginning of the year, but took too long to cut things out! She always needed an extra day on projects in order to finish them, but she was able to finish her post-assessment in one day!

It's taken YEARS to get my wall of wisdom. When I teach, I learn. I learn that kids are visual creatures. Stuff just sticks better if you show it with a picture. So, all the wise things I have learned over the 15 plus years of teaching I have put into a poster form. There's still a lot of ideas floating around in my brain, but it takes time to get them all out. I know not all art teachers have time to make their own posters. So i decided a few years back that very time I make a poster, I scan it and put it on TPT (Teacher Pay Teacher) to share the opportunity for other teachers to use it in their classrooms as well. Please visit my store. Here you will download the image of the poster only. You take that download and print it from your printer, send it to an online photo center and get it shipped to your house, or take you download to a photo store to have printed in house. My secret? I sign up for CVS and Walgreen photo coupons and wait for a 50% off everything sale. Then I print me some poster. That is how I get all mine down. People always ask me how they print out, are they pix led or high quality? I scan them at home on the highest digital capability on my scanner. so, when you print them big, it looks great too. Visit Store Here... https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Lost-Sock-Art-Teacher I have included a lot of pictures below of how they turn out in real life. Tired of saying the same thing OVER AND OVER to your students! JUST A DOT, NOT A LOT!! I was. That's why I started making posters in the first place, just for me and my classroom. But things are so much more peaceful now when I have posters that say it. A poster speaks a thousand words, you know. Go see what I have I store for you and your classroom walls.. Oh, if only walls could speak.. WAIT, they can! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Lost-Sock-Art-Teacher My Newest Poster Get it here... https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Creativity-Takes-Courage-Poster-3413925 Visit my TeacherPayTeacher store here. Got lots of colorful designs to give your classroom "class" and brighten up your walls. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Lost-Sock-Art-Teacher Check it out Yall'. All of these poster ideas come from 14 years of teaching! I repeat the same phrases, rules or rhymes to my students and it just didn't seem to stick. Then I just started making illustrations of those things and there I was... with a big WALL OF WISDOM! I just keep adding and adding. Now I'm addicted to making POSTERS! I love lettering and illustrating. I love color and details. I love ART! If you have an idea for a design, something that you have learned or teach your kids, let me know. It may be my next poster! Please visit my Teachers Pay Teachers store where you can get your own posters for your classroom! Yay, you might just find a free one there... https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Lost-Sock-Art-Teacher As an art teacher, there are things that I am continually telling my students. Things like... "You are responsible for your own mess", or "Art requires patience above talent!", "There's no excuse for messiness!", "Don't use a waste a new piece of paper when you can use an eraser!". Instead of repeating myself, I decided years ago to make a "Wall of Wisdom". It is full of ideas to make your art better or my philosophy of a good art attitude. This was my old wall of poster... New wall at new school... I've went Art Elementary in 2014 ;) after 10 years of MIddle School Elementary boys = PAPER AIRPLANES!!! WHat's the deal? And they are not even CREATIVE! Maybe if they drew windows with passengers peeking through... or something, but NO! SO, I have decided to BAN THEM FROM MY ROOM! "Let your Imagination fly... NOT YOUR PAPER!" T. Morgan Kill the dead space! Fill it up with life, learn to turn! Dear art student, I am not impressed by your speed. It's slow and steady that won. Love, Mrs. Morgan Improved version Purchase this Poster here... https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Slow-and-Steady-Wins-the-A-2710822 I have some kids that get super excited when they are the first ones done with their work. Being quick is not always a good thing. Remember the tortoise and the hare? Sometimes that means they did not take the time to be neat or to complete the work. So, slow and STEADY wins the race. Some kids work hard at first, then get tired, then quit doing their best. If you start neat, finished neat. Be consistent with your work. I let kids know on the first day of school, that I do not grade them based on talent. Nobody can pick their talents when they are born. I am sure if they had a choice, all students would choose to be artistically inclined. So, I grade on their "ARTtitude". Do they try, do the fix mistakes, do they improve, do they listen to advice? Or do they give up, give half effort, or turn work in knowing it could be better? It takes blood, sweat, and tears. It's about distance vs. speed. My pet peeve is when kids waste paper! They put one measly mark down and then throw it away! UGHHHHH! I want to just throw erasers at those wasters! So, I made this sarcastic ad for the NEWEST INVENTION... THE ERASER! You don't have to be talented to be neat. It just takes special care and patience. All you have to do is a back and forth motion with your hand while holding a crayon... it's not that hard. So, I do grade hard on kids who are sloppy. It is just them telling me they don't care. It's a bad "art"titiude. In most cases, it is best to color dark. It shows up better, it pops out, and it reveals the true color. At least if you don't color the inside dark, then emphasize it by outlining dark on the outside. Plus, coloring darker is harder and more time consuming, which in the end shows more care. I tell the kids that if the paper is big, draw big. Fill the space up. The picture is more important than the emptiness behind it. Drawing bigger allows the artist to include more detail as well. If you have the room, use it! Otherwise, you are wasting. Patience is a virtue... You have to practice patience while you create art. When my students work hard by showing patience, I like to post their work online. The great educational philosopher Harry Wong said something like this when I saw him speak. I just took what he said and make a poster for it. I let the kids talk while they work. As long as they do this responsibly, But, if they talk more than they work, inhibit others from working because of their talking, or they fail because of their mouth, then they have a problem that needs to be fixed. Art, the most important meal of the day. Shhhhhhh!.... Draw secret, soft & light lines if you're not sure in the beginning stages. If you draw hard, yiu make it harder on yourself to fix. I try to teach kids to avoid putting the too much pressure on their pencils in the beginning stages of drawing. So many times, they mess up, try to erase, but can't get rid of their original drawing lines. Then I make them use the back of the paper. If they already did, then I make them erase the lightest side. I do this to teach them to draw light till they KNOW they have it right. Kids beat, bang, and drop colored pencils. This tears them apart! Then they try to sharpen them and the lead falls out. It is a horrible result of an abused supply. I have this to encourage them to treat the pencils like glass. I keep the markers in a vertical storage tip down. This allows the flow of the ink to travel to the tip. It increases the life of the markers. Some kids do not close the glue. This open hole lets air in and that air hardens the remaining glue under the cap. Then kids think that jabbing a larger hole in a clogged up glue bottle will make it work better. It will temporarily make it work better for them right then, but in the long run, this massive hole they poked just makes the tip get clogged even more from the extra air that gets in it. This is a never ending cycle! Since this annoys me, I made a poster to try to get my point across. I also get tired of kids not cleaning brushes out. Then the paint dries on the brush, hardens the tip and it is never able to be used again. Or, they do clean it, but leave it with the bristles down. Then it dries bent and is permanently bent. My are teacher from High School, Mrs. Liddell, had a poster like this one. I liked it, so I made one for my classroom. "Your mamma doesn't live here, so clean up your own mess". My self made Principles chart... Self made Elements chart... Somplified my charts for elementary ;) I decided to make this motivational poster for my classroom just recently. I did some research behind it and found the history of the original very interesting. So, this is my parody of the We Can Do It poster. ------------ Think positive! Mini Masterpiece wall (Index card art) 4 kids per table, everybody has a purpose. Rules and rewards... Palette of positivity. Each class has a paper palette that colored stickers are added to for noticeable efforts. http://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2013/04/we-can-do-itart-classroom-encouragment.html And that is my Art Class. Hope you are more the wiser!

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By Presto Plans With the pressure for secondary teachers to meet curriculum expectations in such a limited time, building a classroom community can sometimes be put on the back burner. What many teachers don’t realize is that by intentionally taking time to build a positive community in your classroom, you can ease the challenges of classroom management, improve student attitude toward learning, and create an environment where students feel welcomed and supported. Below are my 5 favorite ways to build classroom community in middle and high school. Establish a positive classroom community by having students complete short activities that encourage kindness, collaboration, teamwork, expression, and the sharing of ideas and opinions. These challenges don’t need to take up a lot of time. Have them last 5-10 minutes. They can be used daily as a bell-ringer, weekly as a fun Friday activity, or even randomly when you finish class a few minutes early! How it works: The teacher sets up a "Classroom Challenge" bulletin board display that includes 20 hidden activity prompts. Once a challenge is revealed, the teacher finds the corresponding activity, passes it out to the class, and they are ready to go! Here are a few of the prompts I include in my challenge to give you an idea of the types of activities can help build community: • Write a thank you card for someone you appreciate. • Talk for one minute to a partner about the topic you receive from your teacher. • Write a top 10 list on the topic of your choice. • Imagine you are stuck on a deserted island. Pick one book, one movie, and one other item to bring. • Play a game of 20 questions with a partner. You know that nostalgic feeling you get when you are reminiscing with your friends about times past? Bring that into your room with “Classroom Throwbacks.” Students use small cards to write down funny, interesting, and memorable moments that happen within the classroom and put it in the “Classroom Thowbacks” jar/box. You can have students fill out the cards randomly, or you can pass them out from time to time, put students in small groups, and have them fill the cards out with a couple memories. Once the throwback jar starts to accumulate some cards, you can begin sharing them in class. You might consider sharing one a week for a “Throwback Thursday” activity. Grab this free resource by clicking here. I once had a principal who left notes of appreciation (and a small treat) in teachers’ mailboxes for little things she had noticed them doing (staying late at school working, helping out at an after-school event, giving extra help at lunch etc.). It was such a small gesture, but it had a dramatic impact on the morale of the staff. Build this same kind of morale in your classroom by finding ways to celebrate your students for the things you see them doing that deserve some praise and appreciation. There are lots of ways you can do this. You can post student work in your classroom, call or email parents to brag up those students who don’t often get a pat on the back, or even have a student of the month/week display for those who deserve special recognition! I also like to keep funny cards tucked away in my desk for those occasions where a student surprises or impresses me. Ask for volunteers for “student paparazzi”. Their job is to take pictures of students in the classroom and send them to you via email to print and post. Of course, students should only take pictures when you deem it appropriate. They could take some before and after the bell rings or during a class activity (when appropriate and with permission) or at the end of the period if class finishes up a couple minutes early. When you post the pictures in your classroom, consider framing them! I pick up low-cost frames at the dollar store and put them in different locations in my classroom (on the wall, on my desk, on the desk at the front of my room, on a bookshelf). No need to go use expensive photo paper. Simply print the pictures on regular letter paper to fit the frame's size (pictures below from the classrooms of @CamilaCdipietro and @Tarafarah7) Framed photos create a home-like, family atmosphere where students feel welcomed and accepted. If you have a classroom website or social media account, you could also post the pictures there as long as you have parent media release permission forms. Providing students with an opportunity to reflect on the positive moments of the week and look forward to the next week is another way to help foster classroom community. One way you can do this is by starting a weekly tradition called “Friday 5-4-3-2-1”. Students fill out the sheet by jotting down 5 things that made them smile, 4 words to describe the week, 3 things they have planned for the weekend, 2 things they learned, and 1 goal they have. Give students a few minutes to fill it out and have them share with a partner, a small group, or have a whole class discussion. If you’d like to try this out with your students, you can download it for free here. You can also choose to make up your own 5 prompts, as a blank version is included! Just write the prompts on the board and students can fill it out. Looking for more ways to promote class community? Find more ideas below! Student-Teacher Conferences from The SuperHERO Teacher Classroom Community Bell-Ringers from The Daring English Teacher The Kindness Project from Room 213 Do you have any other ideas for fostering a positive classroom community? Click the comments button at the top of the post and share your ideas! SaveSave SaveSave

Oh no! It's the big A word. ASSESSMENT! While it can be scary and intimidating to create numeric grades for an entire student body, there are simple tools that I use to make my job a little easier. I do not believe in grading an elementary student based on how well they can draw. That's so.... subjective! For the past several years, I have been a member of an elementary art PLC (professional learning community). Last year, we met once a month to discuss teaching strategies, assessment, evaluation, and a slew of other fun topics. During one meeting, we decided to design a basic rubric that could be used across the board in an elementary art room. Here is the result. Now, I know that this a VERY simple rubric. However, I have had a beneficial time using this skeleton to create worthwhile assessment of student work. The rubric basically scores being on task, craftsmanship/ creativity, and following directions and meeting goals. When it is time to assess student work, I will review the objectives for the lesson and write the goals on the board. Students are required to self assess as to whether or not they completed all the goals. In essence, we create a checklist. For instance... Did you... *Create an animal with shapes and textures *Fill the space with a habitat for your animal *Show foreground, middleground, and background Using a 10 point system makes grading simple and easy. I post the rubric and the grading scale in a highly visible place in my room, so as to familiarize students with the process from the beginning of the year. It also enables me to remain transparent when discussing my grading practices with colleagues and parents. I want everyone to understand that my class is a standards based class, with true numerical grades and assessments.