Art classroom jobs

Not all classroom management plans are foolproof. Sometimes strategies work for one group of students but not for others. The best solution is to keep a list of strategies handy that you can rotate th

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…

Discover ideas for art classroom jobs for students in my latest blog post. Learn how to assign and manage these roles to foster responsibility, independence, and a well-organized art room. Perfect for art teachers seeking effective strategies for student engagement at clean-up time.

daily classroom jobs...make different jobs and adapt to what we are doing that day

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…

I follow this wonderful art teacher down in Florida named Mr. Briggs. He has some great ideas and has even flipped his art classroom! I found his blog by perusing pinterest in search of a way to manage jobs in the art room, therefore stumbling upon his post here about how he organizes the kids. So I took the idea and ran with it, changing it up a bit a long the way cause over here we are in LOVE with the TMNT and if you don't know who they are you are missing out! This past year I purchased…

Art room jobs this is a cool idea!

Only one more week till school starts for me and I'm going out of my mind with boredom! I can't wait to start school and have art projects to share! I spent about seven hours in my room today, organizing my paint, putting the rest of my requisitions away, finishing bulletin boards, and laminating things for later use. I wish I could relax, but I'm excited to start this school year. Even though it may be more stressful with the new Common Core and A.P.P.R. stuff, these changes are forcing me…