Wisconsin Art Education Association
  • Home
    • Home Archive Feb-May 18, 2020
    • Home-Fall 2019-Feb 2020
    • Home-2018-19 Archive
    • Home Back to School -October 24 2018
    • Home Archive May-August 2018
    • Home Archive March 2 2018
    • Home Archive October - November 7 2017
    • Archive Sept-Oct 12 2017 Home
    • Archive Home May-August 2017
    • Home Archive September 13 2016
    • Archive Home- April 2017
    • Archive Home November - Early January 2017
    • About
    • Contact
    • Membership
  • News
    • Art Times
    • NAEA News & Information
  • Educator
    • 2020 Vision: Fall Conference
    • Fall Conference 2019
    • Fall Conference 2018
    • Fall 2017 Conference >
      • Awards-2017 Page
    • Advocacy
    • Awards
    • WAEA Grants >
      • Hunzinger Grant Application
      • Potawatomi Grant Application
    • Non-WAEA Grants
    • Professional Development
    • Art-Making & Exhibits
  • Student
    • Visual Arts Classic
    • Visioneer Design Challenge
    • Youth Art Month 2020-21
    • Youth Art Month 2019-20
    • Youth Art Month 2018-19
    • Scholastic Art & Writing
    • Wisconsin School Board Association WAEA Award
    • Student Art Contests & Scholarships
    • Student Art Classes & Camps
  • History & Fellows
    • Fellows 2019-Allen Caucutt
    • Fellows 2019-Anna S. McNeil
    • Fellows 2019-Ron Stokes
    • Fellows 2018-Janet Carson
    • Fellows 2018-Bill Schulman
    • Fellows 2017- Charles Peterson
    • Fellows 2017- William Benson
    • Fellows 2017- Virgi Driscoll
    • Fellows 2017- Sherry Zei
    • Fellows 2017- Marcia Thompson
    • Fellows 2017- Oberon Leslie
  • WAEA Board
    • WAEA Calendar 2020 - 21
  • Resources

How do you assess your art students?

3/18/2015

0 Comments

 
How do you assess your art students?

Julie Adams, Secondary Division Representative

With all the initiatives set upon teachers and the new assessment objectives implemented, I guess I am feeling overwhelmed. I am a veteran teacher at a new school, so I am being observed as a new teacher. Keeping up with all the standards, surveys, SLO data is a lot. I cannot imagine all the reading that the principal has to do on top of it all. I really feel this has got to change somehow. I have heard more and more stories of working long hours and unhealthy stress trying to keep up. 

However...despite my reservations, all of this data collecting has made me take a look at how I assess my students. I have looked again at the state standards, the core standards, and targets to make sure my students are at the right level for which grade they are in. I have redone most of my assessments to include a self-assessment. I have also included a midpoint critique during each assignment. I hold critiques as assessment during final exams for high school. The students write critiques for their own work and the work of their peers, answering open-ended questions to help them think.

I think it both challenging to assess art work and I feel art teachers have the best way to assess students’ learning because visual proof is sometimes the best way to tell if someone is learning. 

I attended a Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) workshop, Literacy and Assessment in the Fine Arts, given by Julie Palkowski from the Department of Public Instruction.  She was very informative and invited us to contact her anytime or to visit DPI’s website to obtain information about assessment or how we address literacy in the arts. She encouraged us to invite others as well. I am now inviting you to check out all the information on the DPI website. 

Another good source is the Art of Education website. I receive weekly emails from them with tips and information. 

As always, if you have anything to share or would like me to check out anything for you, please contact me at waeasecondaryrep@gmail.com.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Divisional Rep

    Picture
    Dustin Anderson, Elementary Level
    Picture
    Randi Niemeyer, Middle Level
    Picture
    Julie Adams, Secondary Level
    Picture
    Dr. Rina Kundu, Higher Ed Level
    Picture
    Olivia Griepentrog , Art Education Student Level

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    March 2015
    January 2015
    September 2014
    August 2014

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Accessibility Policy
NAEA
© Wisconsin Art Education Association 2016, Jeanne Bjork,  Designer