What's Your Assessment Rubric? Assessing Art and Craft for Kids, by Rob the Art Teacher

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hi I'm Rob the art teacher with another

tips for teachers video today I want to

share with you three simple criteria for

assessing creative expression and art

achievements in the primary school art

room I developed these criteria to

address the challenge of how to assess

art development and the processes of at

Alinea rather than assessing individual

artworks I think to discuss why I would

advise against grading individual

artworks might require a separate video

but for now it's enough to say I wanted

assessment tools for the gradual

year-long development of young artists

in an environment where they have room

to experiment to take risks

maybe have failures and to feel that

they are rewarded for their engagement

in the learning process so you will find

these three criteria are easy for

students to understand they feel natural

and logical to children they use

memorable keywords they are easy for

teachers to use day by day because they

integrate well with each lessons

learning goals and with reflection time

at the end of the lesson they are suited

to both formative and summative

assessments and they can be used with

different types of reporting including

written achievement descriptors

numerical grading and other marking

systems finally they are in themselves a

learning guide for students and teachers

alike here they are number one

creativity and self-expression

questions for the student are you

expressing your imagination ideas

feelings impressions experiences for

teachers the creativity and

self-expression criteria allows us to

acknowledge the individuality of each

student enter award students as they

grow their self-expression through the

learning activities number two new and

improved skills with this criteria the

student can ask themselves am i trying

new methods skills materials and am i

consciously improving what I can already

do through practice and repetition for

teachers this criterion allows us to

acknowledge the degree to which each

student is working to improve the skills

and techniques they already have and the

extent to which they embrace new

materials and methods number three

inspiration questions for the student

are you looking at new things and ideas

and curious to understand them are you

willing to try these new ways of working

and these new ideas your creativity is

like a plant it needs watering and it

will grow by being exposed to new art

experiences of new artists role models

and new examples and even though these

new things will sometimes appear strange

being curious about unfamiliar things

helps its

and the imagination are you open to this

and for teachers this criterion allows

us to acknowledge openness and curiosity

as learning goals the criterion allows

us to see and reward students for their

openness to new ideas their openness to

unfamiliar art forms novel art methods

and inspirational artists I see that the

outset that I had three assessment

criteria well let's make that three plus

one because I know some schools also

asked us to grade student behavior or

effort and in practice oftentimes the

assessment of these aspects is not

strictly linked to the curriculum and to

explicit learning goals consequently

I've wondered if there is a way of

turning this problem on its head so that

we retain our focus on genuine learning

goals and outcomes I think I have

devised a suitable criterion it is

entirely answerable to the curriculum as

a learning tool and it also passes the

child logic test see what you think

number four productivity and involvement

questions for students how are you using

your time and energy to learn as much as

possible win in the art classroom and on

art strokes the student-centered logic

to this is that mostly art is something

you learn by doing the more time you

commit and the more you make the more

likely it is that you will improve your

skills and gain greater satisfaction

from seeing your creative results so for

teachers this criterion allows us to

acknowledge the growing commitment of

students to their own learning and

development this doesn't happen

overnight so this criterion likely

others is interested in the positive

progressive processes of

self-development and children it

provides an opportunity to acknowledge

their thoughtfulness growing

self-awareness and efforts to become

independent learners please let me know

what you think of these three plus one

criteria creativity and self-expression

new and improved skills inspiration

productivity and involvement what

criteria have you developed or inherited

that you find useful and are there other

teaching topics you would like me to

share in a later video I plan to discuss

how I sit learning goals at the start of

each lesson how I weave these three

assessment criteria through the goals

and how I book into the learning goals

with a session of student reflection at

the end of each lesson thanks for

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