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Re: Class management

From: Andrea Dunmire (artshui)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 09:48:10 PST

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    Marsha wrote:

    >I need more ideas on ways you:
    > 1. set up for time efficiency
    > 2. you clean up
    > 3. keep the rest of the class busy till you pull it all together at the
    >end.
    >
    >What are some of your class management tips?

    I have discovered lots of little tricks in my years of teaching elementary
    viaual art. With 24 back-to-back classes and 600+ kids, these come in
    handy.

    Here are some of them:
    I choose 1 table a week to be the helper table. It is the same table in
    every class. They are responsible for passing out, collecting supplies and
    work, clean-up of common areas, and whatever else I need help with.

    For tempera painting I have 7 old cafeteria trays (one for each table)which
    I cover with a piece of newspaper, and set up paint(the primaries and black
    & white in small plastic containers with lids like the restaurants use of
    condiments), a large plastic container of water in the middle, 4 "stancup"
    paper mixing cups, and 4 popsicle stirring sticks. After tables are covered
    with newspaper, which the students do, I bring them a tray. They mix a
    color and go to the shelf where I have brushes set out in covered and
    labelled coffee cans, to choose the size brush they need. When done with a
    color, they toss out the paper mixing cup and get another one.
    When the class is over, I instruct them to drop their brushes into the water
    container on the tray, snap the lids back on the paint cups, throw away
    their trash, and put their paintings on the drying rack. I collect the
    paint trays and take them to a sink where I dump out the water containers
    and brushes, wash and refill the water container, wash the brushes and have
    a helper resort them into the proper can. Then the paint trays are ready
    for the next class.
    This goes very fast after awhile and the closed plastic containers keep the
    paint from drying out.
    When they do get cruddy, I toss out the newspaper from the tray and pour the
    remaining contents of the plastic paint containers into new ones and the
    entire setup is fresh again.

    I do the same with watercolors with 7 other trays.
    I keep both of these sets of trays set up and ready to go for as long as I
    need them.

    I do the same for other media that is in use.

    Those finished early have several choices. I have a stock of art games that
    I have either made or collected. Students may play a game with a friend. I
    also have cards labelled "art starts" which I keep in a box. Each card
    gives an idea for a drawing. Students go to the box and pick 2 without
    looking. After taking these to their seat, they read both of them and
    choose the one they would like to do. They are all different and they seem
    to like them. there are also art books they can look at- both about artists
    and drawing techniques.
    I also keep a large box of scrap papers that can be used for paper sculpture
    or whatever.

    Hope this helps.

    Andrea in Pa.
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