Category: Running an Art Department
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8 Tips for Running A School Art Exhibition
Art exhibitions are an integral and exciting part of the art-making process. There’s something special about seeing your drawing framed, your painting glazed, or your sculpture displayed in a professional manner. Your students will be pleasantly surprised at the positive affirmations they receive from teachers and parents who may or may not have realised their…
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How to Learn Student Names Quickly: 26 Names within 5 Minutes!
Do you struggle to learn student names? This guest blog post by Jo Baker details her tried and tested method on how to learn student names quickly. It’s a great read, especially as we get ready for the new academic year. I have been using this method since I was an NQT. I am not…
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Can I borrow a pencil?
This blog post is about ‘Art Room Management of Pencils’! It made me laugh that a recent post on facebook which opening line was ‘Can I borrow a pencil?’ has attracted over 150 comments from art teachers. The art teacher who posted the post was looking for ideas on how to manage her ever-dwindling supply.…
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Ideas to Decorate Your Art Room
Are you looking for ideas to decorate your art room? I’m interested to see how they have made a space ripe for creativity, how they display students work and how they make it welcoming and appealing. It always makes me want to improve my own art room. The following are simply some pictures I’ve had…
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12 Hashtags Every Art Teacher Should Know
This blog post looks at hashtags every art teacher should know, and why you should know them. Or should you? It’s useful to know about hashtags for Art Teaching if you use social media. You may want to attract people to posts or tweets that you make, or you may want to track down other…
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How to Make Your Art Department Budget go Further!
What can you do in the art room that costs practically nothing? What can you create when you have no budget left? Most art teachers have to manage on a really tight budget, so here are some ideas from The Arty Teacher. If you like just one of them, it might save you a few…