Video Tour: Vinyl Tape in the Art Room When I started teaching art at an elementary school, I tried out two ways of assigning clean-up jobs that totally failed. I lovingly crafted a job chart with …

Welcome to the How-To Guide for First Year Art Teachers where I give you my 10 Steps for Success! Congratulations! You got your own classroom. OH MY GOSH, you have your own classroom. Your mind and stomach start racing, both with extreme excitement and panic because now, it all just got real. You will have a lot of students, a lot of planning, and a lot of classroom to keep organized. Figuring out where to even start is a huge stress and will require a tea (or a beer) and a nap (probably…

I was inspired by a post by Jen at "draw the line at" to try assigning Art room jobs at my intermediate school. I had never tried before, because this method had never occurred to me! Jen came up with 6 jobs, one for each table, and created a system with magnetic tape to easily rotate the assigned tables for each job each week. After I read her post and saw the pictures, I started brainstorming which 6 jobs would work well in my classroom with my style. I wanted to make sure I could come up…

How to create a student job system that requires little maintenance and works!

Welcome to my Art Room for 2015-2016! Be warned - oodles of pictures in this post! Enjoy! This is my SMARTBoard, which I couldn't live without anymore! These are my new clean-up signs. When I say "It's clean up time" - they should follow the Clean Up 5 sign and then the Table Job sign. The less I have to talk during clean up, the better! I think the kids would agree! :-) Does the sign on the left seem to familiar? That's because I totally loved what Alecia at Art of Ed wrote about HERE and I…

Ashley | Artsy Blevs | Art Teacher on Instagram: "Several of y’all asked on my first week of art post about what procedures I talk about on the first day, and those procedures are my art room jobs. This post is from last year, but still exactly what I do: As always, everything doesn’t work for everyone, but this system has worked for me in my current classroom for 13 years and so I’m sharing in case any one nugget is helpful to someone! 🤗 You also don’t need matchy matchy rainbow containers…

Classroom jobs ideas for elementary that are so fun and some even have real world names to go along with them. This is a great list for teachers... you could have a job for every student!

This article explores the art of classroom management, providing insights and strategies to help art teachers establish a supportive and nurturing atmosphere where students can thrive.

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Have I got something for you, y'all! Check this out: Finish the Drawing! I explain it real quick in this video but more details on the supplies used and how it works below... I got this idea because of the following: * I got lots of paper scraps. Like, LOTS. So this helps me not waste any of that paper! * I got lots of kids who wanna do Free Draw but LOOK HERE: my art classes are 30 minutes long! And we all know how they be treatin' that paper that they draw on for a minute and then toss in…