Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Art Class Grading Mr. Davis is teaching a unit on shading. He takes his class to an outside garden, and while the students are creating compositions focusing on the shadows and colors they see, he walks around and observes their progress. He's not sure on how to score the students without interrupting them. What should he base his scoring on? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) This is silly. Why is he afraid to interrupt them? With art instruction you have to be bold and go up to them, and show them examples. While I agree that a rubric can be helpful for assigning an actual letter grade to the assignment, the point at which the student learns is the point where the teacher walks over and says something like "Hey, you are holding your pencil wrong, if you tilt it on the side like this you can form better transitions and variety in your shading" and then shows them quickly what he expects, not on their paper but on his own. If you don't talk to your students, you probably should not be teaching.