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Art Assessments / Rubrics
HOW ARE SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY ART STUDENTS ASSESSED?
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Art students are assessed by several different means. Students are encouraged to create artworks that utilize their own creativity and imagination that helps prepare them in a twenty-first century world.
Critical thinking is fostered through analytical problem-solving through the creation process. Students are not "graded" by "how well they draw, paint, or create." Rather, they are assessed throughout the year by participation, self-assessment, group assessment, effort, following directions and the specific rubric for the art unit and lessons. Art rubrics are set for each lesson and art unit of study. An overall D.B.A.E. (Discipline Based Art Education) rubric supported by Smithtown's Central School District serves as a guideline to assess students in the creation of artworks. Lincoln Center (Inquiry-Based Learning) and T.A.B. (Teaching for Artistic Behavior) rubrics are also utilized inside the art room. Click on the links below to see these guidelines and rubrics. D.B.A.E. Art Rubric Download
D.B.A.E. Art Rubric Full View BelowSource: Thirteen.org
Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Grant Wiggins Assessment and Evaluation Assessment provides a way to measure students' demonstration of learning. It helps us answer the questions: "How much did they learn?" and "How well did they learn it?" and "How well did we teach it?" Evaluation is the process through which teachers judge the quality of work -- their own or their students'. There are two types of evaluative strategies: 1) Formative evaluations, which involve a continual stream of reflection and feedback, and allow the educator or student to continually adjust and improve their work while it's ongoing. 2) Traditionally, teachers have emphasized summative evaluations, where feedback is gathered only after instruction has been completed. Both strategies are necessary to provide for effective curriculum assessment and student education. Assessment expert Grant Wiggins differentiates between assessment and evaluation in this way: "When teachers ASSESS student performance, they're not placing value or judgement on it -- that's EVALUATING or grading. They're simply reporting a student's profile of achievement." Lincoln Center (Inquiry-Based Learning) Download
T.A.B. (Teaching for Artistic Behavior) Rubric Download
T.A.B. Rubric Full View Below
Source: Excerpt from NAEA
A valuable in-depth study of art assessment written especially for art educators. The book presents and discusses what can be assessed in art; various kinds of assessment instruments; developing and administering assessment; alternatives to traditional assessment; and scoring and reporting results. This book integrates assessment of student learning with curriculum and art instruction. It provides multiple examples, sample formats, and suggestions for implementation. The book illustrates various means of observing and recording evidence of student art learning. An important resource for art educators and schools reviewing assessment plans for their art programs. An excellent text for staff development seminars. 
Above: Author, Illustrator, Artist Peter Reynolds
Source: http://picturebookmonth.com Why Picture Books Are Important by Peter H. Reynolds The beauty of a picture book is that it quite quickly delivers its essence within a few minutes. Sometime with a few words sprinkled below big images -and sometimes wordlessly. Big ideas delivered simply and efficiently. Picture books do a lot of heavy lifting. They can tackle universal truths that adults wrestle with and try to explain, chapter upon chapter, and can reduce it all into two dozen pages or so. These big ideas are made more memorable to visual thinkers. The other wonderful “secret power” of picture books is it is adults who buy them and read them first. While they fully intend on sharing them with their students, children, grandchildren, they must first absorb the story and its message. I often say that great children’s books are “wisdom dipped in words and art.” These bite-size bits of wisdom heal the reader, inspire the reader, and invite the reader to action. The reader is often an adult who in need of all three: healing, inspiration, and the reminder to make a difference. About Peter H. Reynolds
Peter H. Reynolds, founder of The Dot Club, is an author and illustrator of many books about creativity, including The Dot, Ish, Sky Color, The North Star, (Candlewick Press) and his upcoming collaboration with Susan Verde onThe Museum (Abrams). He has also collaborated with Judy Blume on the covers to the Fudge series, Amy Krouse Rosenthal on Plant A Kiss, Someday with Alison McGhee, and with Megan McDonald on the best-selling, Judy Moody series. With his twin brother, Paul, he founded FableVision Studios – a transmedia development studio specializing in positive stories to move the world to a better place. They also own a family bookshop called The Blue Bunny in their hometown of Dedham, MA. Peter has two children, Sarah and Henry Rocket. He is married to designer, Diana Gaikazova, whose gallery is across the street from the bookshop. |
Source: Excerpt from Amazon Books
Willow Miss Hawthorn’s room is neat and tidy, not a pencil or paintbrush is out of place. And that’s how she likes it. And she likes trees that are colored green and apples that are painted red. Miss Hawthorn does not like things to be different or out of the ordinary. Into Miss Hawthorn’s classroom comes young Willow. She doesn’t color inside the lines, she breaks crayons, and she sees pink trees and blue apples. What will Miss Hawthorn think? Magical things can happen when your imagination is allowed to run wild, and for Miss Hawthorn the notion of what is art and what is possible is forever changed. 
Source: Excerpt from Amazon Books
Ish Ramon loved to draw. Anytime. Anything. Anywhere. Drawing is what Ramon does. It¹s what makes him happy. But in one split second, all that changes. A single reckless remark by Ramon's older brother, Leon, turns Ramon's carefree sketches into joyless struggles. Luckily for Ramon, though, his little sister, Marisol, sees the world differently. She opens his eyes to something a lot more valuable than getting things just "right." Combining the spareness of fable with the potency of parable, Peter Reynolds shines a bright beam of light on the need to kindle and tend our creative flames with care. 
Source: Excerpt from Amazon Books
Sky Color Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can’t wait to begin! But how can Marisol make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream. . . . From the award-winning Peter H. Reynolds comes a gentle, playful reminder that if we keep our hearts open and look beyond the expected, creative inspiration will come. 
Source: Excerpt from Amazon Books
Her teacher smiled. "Just make a mark and see where it takes you." Art class is over, but Vashti is sitting glued to her chair in front of a blank piece of paper. The words of her teacher are a gentle invitation to express herself. But Vashti can’t draw - she’s no artist. To prove her point, Vashti jabs at a blank sheet of paper to make an unremarkable and angry mark. "There!" she says. That one little dot marks the beginning of Vashti’s journey of surprise and self-discovery. That special moment is the core of Peter H. Reynolds’s delicate fable about the creative spirit in all of us. 
Source: http://www.thedotclub.org/dotday/
International Dot Day What is Dot Day? Every day is a good day to celebrate creativity in the classroom and all that it unlocks and unleashes for students and teachers. But since 2009, one day – September 15 -- has become a great day for teachers, students and people everywhere to re-commit and re-connect to the power and potential that creativity brings to all we do.
International Dot Day was launched by teacher Terry Shay when he introduced his classroom to Peter H. Reynolds’ book The Dot on September 15, 2009. (Fun Fact: Terry chose September 15 because the original publishing date of The Dot is September 15, 2003!) The Dot tells the story of a caring teacher who reaches a reluctant student in a remarkably creative way. The teacher dares a doubting student to trust in her own abilities by being brave enough to “make her mark”. What begins with a small dot on a piece of paper becomes a breakthrough in confidence and courage, igniting a journey of self-discovery and sharing, which has gone on to inspire countless children and adults around the globe. And each year on International Dot Day – with the help of people just like you - the inspiration continues. What started as a story in the pages of a book is transforming classrooms around the world as teachers and students celebrate creativity in the classroom. Even with just a few hours of participation, educators are helping to ensure that every student – whether in pre-school, K-12 or college -- knows that he or she has what it takes to make a mark on the world. An International Dot Day celebration can be whatever you want it to be – from a 30-minute moment to week-long series of activities. | ||||||
