Procedures and student succes criteria in choice-based art!

Student success criteria and clear expectations are a major focus for my professional goals this year, I want to share some of the work I done so far. 

 Capturing ideas and planning are the first two steps in the artistic process.  This entire wall will be filled with the entire process.  Students will be able to look to the wall to 

1. know what they should be doing at each step 

2. understand what the work looks like

3. understand how the work should impact their project

4. justify the work that they are doing

 This just might be one of my favorite walls in my room! Here are the artistic behaviors in Thomson Art!  Beside the behavior is a strategy for students to write goals for their projects.  Students MUST have a goal that they are working on throughout their artistic process.  Success stories so far...one third grader decided that adding writing to his art would enhance and clarify his message! (his goal is communication)  Sometimes students will pick their goal, sometimes they may have more than one, and sometimes they might have a teacher-recommended goal.  

Success story number 2- a student left me a drawing in my mailbox about all the wonderful things in art.  Love, truth, beauty, drawing, goals!!

Table-top anchor charts provide success criteria for materials at each of the stations.  Another layer that students are accessing information and expectations to determine their own success! PS-they get major points for coming up with alternative ways of using the materials (INNOVATION!)