Teaching Differently
Making Connections
HCHS
ARTS INTEGRATION
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As a non-arts teacher, the scariest part of project-making in your classroom is probably grading the projects. Sometimes it is easy to give everyone an "A for effort," but that isn't really fair to students who put their all into their projects when others slopped something down. For the visual arts content to truly be integrated, you must grade students on how well they learned your subject content and the arts content and this includes art making/skill building. Here are some resources for judging the quality of student work and for helping students to assess their own efforts as well. Including these in your lessons will help the quality of your products to increase.
Sample Rubrics for Scoring Artworks and Self-Assessments
I like how this self-assessment form scores students based on "pride in their work" and also gives them the option to give the teacher feedback about what they liked/didn't like about the project.
From the Education Closet website, this rubric works well for student projects or performances in any of the 4 arts disciplines because it uses the term "composition" relatively with each artform's goals and expectations. It says it is for 4th-5th grade, but can easily be used for high school level.
This rubric is also very comprehensive but separates categories and assigns point values to each "level" that you can score a student.
This is a really comprehensive example of an arts project rubric that emphasizes students' use of the elements of art. Craftsmanship, safe use of art tools, etc. are also included.
This is a great sample project rubric with an example project and pie chart that shows grade percentages.
This is a fun and generic rubric that helps students to see the difference in the quality of their work in a way that they can relate to. What burger would you rather have? Quick and simple and could be hung on a wall in the classroom.
This is a simple 4 level rubric that strictly assesses if students met the standards and objectives of the lesson.
This project rubric separates scores by points and letter grades along with criteria to let students know why they were scored a certain way and what they can do better.
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