Art class management

An elementary art teacher blog with art projects and lessons, DIY projects and outfit photos as well as clothing I have made myself.

5th Grade Lesson Example Value Oceans - 5th grade - two 45 min class periods Materials: blue, white, & black liquid tempera paint paper plates for paint water cups paintbrushes pencils black...

I always compare teaching art to being a cocktail waitress in a beehive. Imagine... 35 kindergarteners on the first day of art It's very hectic, messy, and your customers are pretty needy. I teach PreK through third grade. I believe that you have to teach students how to not only treat you, but your procedures and routines. When you do this you can actually get a lot accomplished in the 50 minute class once a week. Here are a few of the most important things I've learned over the last 8…

Art Educators- Feel free to click on the images below to go to my teachers pay teachers page to download FREE Powerpoint lessons and handouts to print and share with students!Descriptions on each a…

Balancing creativity and structure can be challenging at times, so here are nine art classroom management tips that have helped me create a productive and enjoyable learning environment for everyone.

Art Teachers, in your Art Classroom you’re always going to have students finish before the rest, fast finishers, so let’s take a look at some ideas or routines that you can build into your classroom so that students know what to do when they’re done so they don’t have to ask you and so that you don’t have to instruct them on what to do EVERY time.

Its half way through my teaching cycle. Creating, balancing and managing an art room is crucial when I see each class only fifteen times per year.

Of all the things new teachers ask me "how do you manage your class room" is the #1 question. My response is keep it simple. I am a huge believer in the Love & Logic method. If you have never read this book stop what ever you are doing and go over to Amazon and get a copy. There is a new version as of 2016 for $37 or the older one pictured below for only $5. I study out of the older version and it will absolutely change your life...it did mine. I was teaching in a low-income Title One school…

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Of all the things new teachers ask me "how do you manage your class room" is the #1 question. My response is keep it simple. I am a huge believer in the Love & Logic method. If you have never read this book stop what ever you are doing and go over to Amazon and get a copy. There is a new version as of 2016 for $37 or the older one pictured below for only $5. I study out of the older version and it will absolutely change your life...it did mine. I was teaching in a low-income Title One school…

I finally found a place in the room on which my palettes and classroom management and reward system stick. See, we can’t use tape or anything on the walls and my sticky tack isn’t hand…

An elementary art teacher blog with art projects and lessons, DIY projects and outfit photos as well as clothing I have made myself.

We are enjoying our art room jobs this year. After thinking about the daily jobs that we do in the art room, I listed the six most frequent tasks. Last year I had a "helper table" that helped with everything that day. This year, I am giving each table a job to do each week. The color for each job stays the same for the entire week for all of my classes to make it manageable. If we are not painting, the table that would handle washing the brushes does "quality control". Otherwise, my job is…

This is how every student knows what their Art job is in my classroom. The color on their chair stays the same, but the colors are assigned to a different job every week. Yay for kids cleaning and not me!

Okay, so I'm gonna be honest: I'm not GREAT with consistency. BUT...I am consistent when I run my art class. Full disclosure: my art classes are (and yes, I still use the present tense; I've only been out of the art room for a month and I will always consider myself an art teacher so you'll have to forgive me) 30 minutes long with all grades, kindergarten through 4th. So even tho I don't consider myself a consistent person by nature, I've had to force myself to be for the sake of getting any…