Providing feedback to students

Posted in GCSE art and design, GCSE Photography, Key Stage 3, Marking, Technology by artroommess

After an email from a fellow teacher asking for advice on giving feedback to students I thought that I would share some of the things I have used for various classes at different times.

Below are some screenshots from each of these and then the link to download the file.

major-project_mock_esa-mark-sheet-art-2 Download

major-project_mock_esa-mark-sheet-photo Download

art-esa-detailed-feedback Download

art-ks3-assessment-grid-website Download

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TIPS AND HINTS

MOTE:

Alongside these grids since lockdown I have been experimenting with using the Google Chrome Extension ‘Mote‘. I have found this another great time saving tool when leaving digital feedback. In a nutshell you can record yourself and leave your audio message within Google Classroom and most of the Google Apps such as Slides and Docs. I have found it really cuts down the time spent leaving feedback on students work and also students have told me they prefer to listen to feedback than read it.

GOOGLE COMMENTS:

While students have been working online in lockdown and using Google Classroom I have found that the comments function has been brilliant for being able to add quick WWW, EBIs or TO DO NEXT feedback to their work. Here is a link to the detailed step by step instructions of using this function

Use comments & action items: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/65129?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en#zippy=

GOOGLE CLASSROOM RUBRIC:

When you create an assignment in Google Classroom you can also create a rubric alongside the work set. I have used this in KS3 to speed up marking online work and in KS4 to provide feedback on what level they have achieved against the exam board mark scheme. A few great links that explain how to create and use rubrics are listed below.

Create or reuse a rubric for an assignment: https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/9335069?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en&oco=0#zippy=%2Crubric-overview

Add a Rubric to Google Classroom with Google Sheets: https://alicekeeler.com/2020/07/31/add-a-rubric-to-google-classroom-with-google-sheets/

23Sep2020

Using Google Classroom in the Art Room

Posted in GCSE art and design, GCSE Photography, ICT, Key Stage 3, Organisation, Technology by artroommess

I have been using Google Classroom for a while now as a one-stop-shop for students to access their resources, handouts, links, mark sheets and online portfolios. I wanted to share with you some ways that I use this app that have helped me to streamline mine and my students working practice.

USING TOPICS

Under the ‘+ Create’ button you will see the option to create topics. I have used this to help organize all of my uploads. This makes it easier for students to navigate Google Classroom and should save wasted time searching for their documents. The types of headings I have used are:

Handouts and Guidance sheets – This would contain items such as word banks, analysis sheets, annotation guides, Externally set task sheets etc
Cover work – Here I would upload any cover lessons and tasks that students are to complete in my absence
Homework – We now use ShowMyHomework but previous to this I would place the classes Homework task instructions here
Project titles – These are the topic headings that I have the most of. For example for my ‘The Basics’ project I would create a topic header of the same name.

Assignments

This is pretty straightforward, here I would add any lesson tasks that I want students to complete on Google Classroom. I will often add a blank Google Slides document for students to add their work to, making sure to set the document to ‘Make a copy for each student’. I use Google slides rather than Google Docs as I have found it to be more intuitive and user-friendly for students. I will also always add the lesson handouts/presentation so that students have access to these after the lesson should they wish to revisit their work or if they are absent they can see what has been worked on in class.

Material

So if I want to just share a resource for the lesson, such as a presentation, YouTube clip or link, I will upload it as Material rather than an Assignment. This means that it does not have a due date nor does it give the students the opportunity to upload/share any document with you.

Choosing the correct heading when adding items to Google Classroom means that students clearly see what they need to complete and hand in to you (an Assignment) and what is just for reference (Material). Material will not clutter up their ‘To Do’ list.

Online Sketchbook/ Portfolio

Utilising ‘Assignments’ I have created online sketchbooks for my GCSE Photography classes. This is especially helpful during Covid-19 as I do not have to worry about quarantining paper sketchbooks before I can touch/mark/view them and also I can see exactly what the students are doing real time without having to get close to them and breaking the 2m distance I am supposed to keep.

I set up the Slides document with the name of project and a space for the students name, then any homework lists/guidance and lastly I am planning on adding in their teacher marking tracker sheet too. Just remember to set the permission to ‘Make a copy for each student’.

Using comments to give feedback

Lastly one great feature of Google Classroom is that you can provide comments/feedback to students both in real time and/or after the student has completed the work. You can click on an item you want to provide a comment on or the whole sheet/page and then the speech bubble with plus sign in it. Students can then reply to your comment/feedback. A record of your comments/feedback and your students responses is kept, this can be seen by clicking the speech bubble with three lines in it at near the top right of the screen.

I hope you have found some of these tips helpful! Please do get in touch if you have further questions or want any more advice.

5Jan2020

2020 AQA Art, Craft and Design Externally Set Assignment PowerPoint

Posted in Artist research, GCSE art and design, Planning by artroommess

Here it is! Once again I hope this is helpful to you and your students.

Sorry everyone, file should now be uploaded….

Artists for Exam ESA 2020 PowerPoint Download

11Jan2019

2019 AQA Art, Craft and Design Exam/ESA Powerpoint

Posted in Artist research, GCSE art and design by artroommess

A little late due to having a nearly 4 month old at home but better late than never I say 🙂

Good luck all!

art artists for exam esa 2019

12Feb2018

Fantastic and Strange GCSE Scheme of Work

Posted in GCSE art and design, Lessons, Planning, Schemes of Work, Trips by artroommess

I have been running the above scheme of work this term with my Year 10 class. The majority of the class are generally fairly low ability but so far they have produced some great work that they are enjoying.

We are moving on to developing designs for the ceramic pieces after the half term but I wanted to share the SOW now as I have some free time. Hopefully once the students have created their final pieces I will add some photos of their work! In the meantime I have photographed some of the pages out of their sketchbook for you to see some of the development work.

Right click on the link and select save as… to save the SOW Word Document: Yr10 Fantastic and Strange SOW

For the respective Pinterest Board please follow this link: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pipsticks/art-fantastic-and-strange-gcse-theme/

2Jan2018

2018 AQA Art, Craft and Design Exam/ESA Powerpoint

Posted in Artist research, GCSE art and design, Planning by artroommess

Once again here is my AQA Art, Craft and Design powerpoint that I create to help my students with the Externally Set Assignment. Each slide shows a number of artists, crafts people and designers that link to each theme given on the paper. All the people identified in the paper are included alongside others that I have found.

I created the powerpoint on Keynote and exported it to PowerPoint so some text etc may have moved about in the export.

Artists for Art Exam ESA 2018 – Right click and select ‘save as…’ to save it to your computer.

My Pinterest boards can be found here and will be updated as and when: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pipsticks/

The Powerpoint for the Photography set of words will follow shortly!

5Sep2017

GCSE Art Exam and Mock Exam Course Structure

Posted in Artist research, GCSE art and design, Lessons, Planning, Schemes of Work by artroommess

I have updated and refreshed my GCSE Art Exam/Mock Exam course structure sheets. They now reflect the 1-9 grades, include the revised wording to match the AQA Specification and go up to 24 marks instead of 20.

As before the jpegs and Powerpoint that includes the tick boxes can be downloaded below

If you want to have the editable Photoshop (or the ‘Graphics’ files – a mac based app that was used to create the original files) files then please follow the link below to where they are stored on Dropbox.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rq02x7h07r125d2/AADhgqAbfKBhgEeTKh0pm47Oa?dl=0

1Jul2017

2017 1-9 Art and Design Handbook

Posted in Artist research, GCSE art and design, Planning by artroommess

I know the current year 10’s are working on the 1-9 grades but I just have not have the time to get all my resources updated until now. So here is the first updated resource, my GCSE Art and Design Handbook. I usually give this to the year 9’s who have chosen Art at the end of the summer term along with their summer project work. I also email it to all parents so they know a little about the course and how to support their child (as I find a large number of parents struggle to understand how to support their child in this subject).

PDF: Art GCSE information booklet 2017

Word (the file was not created in word so may look odd in places due to being exported for editing): Art GCSE information booklet 2017

26Feb2017

Exam Time Planning for GCSE Art and Photography students

Posted in GCSE art and design, GCSE Photography, Organisation, Planning by artroommess

To help my students effectively plan their 10 hour ‘exam’ time I have drawn up a question sheet that hopefully helps them to consider what they need to do.

The images above are JPEG versions (if you want these just right click them and select Save as…)

The idraw and Photoshop editable versions can be found by following this link to where they are saved on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mzbcw1a1obti0hh/AABJgtAjjR1i5wrY4vt62UvEa?dl=0