In the States they are called ‘attention grabbers’, here in the UK it would be part of your behaviour management strategy, but whatever you call it, ways to get your students to be quiet are an essential part of your teacher tool kit. Here are some tried and tested strategies used by art teachers around […]
I’ve never seen an art teacher use Oreos in the art classroom before but when I saw art teacher Sandy Queen post the images below on my Facebook group Your Student’s Artwork, I had to find out more. This task makes links to historical cameo carvings, reinforces what relief carving is and also involves creative […]
How to get students to create gestural drawing is a question many art teachers have asked themselves. I saw the beautiful, gestural drawings below on Facebook posted by art teacher Joan Martin. They were posted with the comment: “I’m trying to get my grade 11 class to work in a more expressive manner. These were […]
These are my latest Sketchbook Circle pages. Sketchbook Circle is a sketchbook exchange group. As you may have seen, I’ve created lots of ammonite art teaching resources lately, so I thought I would take inspiration from them myself. I started by using some of the collage materials that Sketchbook Circle had sent me. This included […]
Art teachers have been sharing some great ideas for fun art lessons for the first day on social media. Some teachers go through expectations and rules and this may be the right thing to do in your school or even a requirement by your management but given the choice, I like to try to get […]
