Next year, I am going to work on explicitly teaching for Artistic Behaviors. My students just don’t seem to get it when I talk about them and too many of them just can’t demonstrate them consistently. Every Friday we have…
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2014 Studio Challenge Wrap-Up
A few Friday’s ago we wrapped up our studio choice challenge and our state testing. Here are some thoughts on how it went, along with how I might go forward with the project in the future. Student Reflections: The last day…
High Score- Low Score
I was asked in the TAB-Yahoo group to update them on how the challenge was going, specifically in regard to the points. One teacher questioned whether the kids would obsess about the points and get competitive in a negative way.…
Monitor, Reflect and Adjust
All good teachers Monitor, Reflect and then make Adjustments. The same is true of working in a TAB or Modified TABÂ classroom. Here are some of the adjustments IÂ have made to this current studio challenge so far. ~But first, some of…
Setting up the Studio Challenge 2014
I took this picture of period 4 at work on Wednesday as I was explaining how to take a panorama picture to one of the kids using the computer center. So this is a group of 8th graders all busy…