The Middle School Art Teacher Classroom Management Survival Guide Part 2

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In this video I cover the appropriate use of reading and writing in the art room and why middle school students need to feel as if the have some ‘skin in the game’ , to feel like involved stakeholders in the classroom. You will learn why student ‘buy in’ is 100% necessary for classroom management and how you can have great learning results in your own middle school classroom. You will also learn why punishment, for the sake of punishment, does not work and what actually will work instead. Finally, here are the links to my two toothpick sculpture lessons and below that is the grading rubric I used.
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GRADING RUBRIC FOR TOOTHPICK SCULPTURES
CREATED NEAT, ROUND COLORED MARBLES THE CORRECT SIZE USING CRAYOLA MODEL MAGIC-                   10 POINTS
USED GLUE TO JOIN THE SCULPTURE TO INSURE STURDY DESIGN-10 POINTS
DESIGN REFLECTS THAT STUDENT UNDERSTANDS THAT THE TRIANGLE IS THE STRONGEST MOST STABLE SHAPE FOR BUILDING-20 POINTS
DESIGN IS SYMMETRICALLY BALANCED-20 POINTS
DESIGN USES THE MATERIALS EFFICENTLY TO CREATE THE TALLEST STRUCTURE POSSIBLE WITHOUT SACRIFICING STABILITY- 20 POINTS
FINISHED SCULPTURE IS NEAT IN APPEARANCE-                  10 POINTS
STUENTS WORK COOPERATIVELY AND COLABORATIVELY IF WORKING IN A GROUP OR STUDENT WORKS INDEPENDENTLY IF WORKING ALONE- 10 POINTS