I apologize for the lack of
entries lately. Winter break kept me busy relaxing. I am now getting prepared
for the second semester of this school year and the first time I will be
teaching Art 5. I am excited to finally put the course to work and see how
students respond. I also have added more assignments to Art 1 that align with
the Common Core standards as well as a pre-test and post-test to measure
student growth. Starting next school year, 50% of my evaluation will be
measuring student growth in my class. Next semester the Art 1 classes will test
a multiple choice, multiple answer, essay, and short answer assessment. I am
very excited to see the results and also a little nervous to see how much my
students learn and retain at the end of the course. The pre and post-tests
include art history and media questions as well as well as questions that have
students explain why they chose a particular answer for a previous question, as
the PARCC test will do. Lastly there are two essay questions: one that asks
students to write about the merits of art education in schools and the other a
critique of a specific piece of art they have never seen. I will be sharing the
results of the pre-test and I believe this data will help drive my instruction.
Previously I have issued a survey for students to take where they are asked what
they already know about art, rather than specific questions. I believe the
pre-test will give me more specific results. Also, this semester I am taking a Spanish
course online. This is the first course I have ever taken online and I am doing
an experiment to see how I perform in such an environment. I am already
starting to understand the perspective of my students and the challenges of
self-motivation. I am hoping these findings will help me serve them better.
Stay tuned!
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