I have found over the years of teaching A.P. studio course that the
score is meaningful to see how your art is perceived by another in
the field. Secondly, it will be of great benefit on how they will
perform and be able to handle a college art class. I tell them they
are doing the a.p. course to prepare for the college rigor and to
give them the best chance at success.
My students have done well in A.P. because it reflects on themselves
as artists and future people working in the field. If they are doing
it for the GPA? OK, for the credit? OK. it will mean more to them if
they are doing it to see how they stack up to others in the country
and take pride in that.
We had only one "2" since 1986 and mostly 4's and 5's. I had about 8
students a year and they were looked on by the other students as the
"elite". This pride became something that seemed to stay around
every year so I think it started many years ago. See if you can have
them invest a need to excel past the college board perks and do it
for themselves and their own pride, it will grow from there.
Of all the things I miss from teaching, it's the A.P. students after
they turn in the portfolio and their elation, excitement, and pride
in themselves that I could see in them. I hoped it would continue
while in college.
Ken Schwab
retired
--- joe3cox@cox.net wrote:
> Hello All
> I have been reading the post on AP Studio Art and I too had a real
> difficult time getting the students to produce enough work within a
> class to meet the requirements. The question I have is does AP
> Studio Art really benefit the students as an AP Class is suppose to
> do by earning a student college credit if they have a passing
> score? I have always felt that a college would want an entering
> freshmen to take their foundation art classes which is the class
> that an AP art course would earn them credit for. If I am wrong
> here let me know. If any AP teacher have had students that
> received a passing score on the test and this score helped them
> receive credit in college please let me know. I have talk to
> several students who said that once they got to college that their
> AP scores really didn't help them. I no longer teach AP but have
> been thinking about doing it again. It is a fun class to teach,
> lot of work but challenging. I think that it is great for
> directing the student to begin thinking about college and preparing
> a student for college by making them create a portfolio, but I
> don't want to sell it as a way to earn college credit if it really
> isn't going to do that.
>
> Blessings,
> Joe
>
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