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Summer 2014 Course Schedule Released
Fire up, art teachers, and start planning your Summer Professional Development! I know a lot of you are planners (I admit, I am, too) so we’ve released the Summer Course Schedule super early this year...
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Easily Create Common Core Connections with the Ultimate Tunnel Book Resource...
Sculpture projects don’t have to involve expensive or hard to find materials. You can create amazing pieces using an art room staple… paper (this card stock from Blick Art Materials would work well)!...
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The Best Art Teachers on “Teachers Pay Teachers”
Teachers Pay Teachers is a website that is pretty self explanatory. Teachers submit resources like PDFs, worksheets and lesson plans, for other teachers to purchase and use in their classrooms. It’s a...
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A Sample SLO for Art Teachers
Art-specific growth samples are hard to come by. In fact, many schools simply throw something like a 5th Grade Band assessment example at the “Arts Teachers” (theater, music and visual arts) and...
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Ditch the Trinkets: 5 Creative Ways to Reward Students
You can read arguments from both camps on the extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation rewards debate. In fact, I’ve been teaching the AOE class Managing the Art Room this summer, and some of our best...
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10 Things You Should Know About the New Visual Art Standards
With the release of the New Visual Art Standards this summer, art teachers all over the country are aiming to make sense of this huge change for art education: Where do I start? What does this mean for...
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How to Develop a Unit Using the New Visual Arts Standards
If you are like most art teachers, your curriculum is driven by the word LESSON. “I found a great new Lesson to teach on Pinterest.” “This is one of my tried and true lessons I do every year.” “I need...
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How to Build a Successful K-5 Weaving Curriculum
Do you ever skip over an entire media group in your curriculum, simply because you feel like you don’t have time to incorporate it, or because you don’t feel confident with your own skill level? I did...
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Winter Courses Now Open for Enrollment!
AOE’s Winter Course Schedule is now released! You can get started planning your PD in December, January, and February. The complete course schedule is detailed below: To learn more about our classes...
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Giving Up Control, One Choice at a Time
When I go to a restaurant, I often tell myself: You can have the bread basket or the wine, but not both. Choose one. This ‘either or’ method works well in many circumstances. Every day we make...
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AOE Celebrates Distance Learning Week!
Did you know this week is National Distance Learning Week!? I know, I know, it’s probably not highlighted on your calendar, but we get pretty excited about it around here, since Distance Learning is...
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Piktochart: A Cool Tool to Keep Your Art Room Running Smoothy
Cleaning up in the art room is inevitable. It doesn’t matter if you teach High School or Kindergarten, there are messes to be made, and therefore, messes to be cleaned up! Managing this less-structured...
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Where Are You on the Choice Spectrum?
Starting January 1st, participants in our Choice Based Art Education class will be walking through three really important processes. Discovering where they stand today on the “Choice Spectrum.” Making...
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New Class! Flipping the Art Room
Have you heard of Flipped Teaching!? It’s an exciting new technique that is gaining popularity in classrooms all around the country! If you aren’t familiar, the basic format is: The teacher records...
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Summer Course Schedule Released: Enrollment Open
Summer… Ahhh… It seems so far away, but will be here before you know it. Summer is the prime season for educators to squeeze in Grad Credits, CEU’s and PD Hours. Why? Because, for most of you, summer...
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Download the 2015 AOE Course Catalog
As you are planning your summer professional development, be sure to download and print off the first ever AOE Course Catalog! The 20 plus page AOE 2015 Course Catalog will make its print debut at NAEA...
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I Took AOE’s Choice Based Art Education Class and Lived to Tell the Tale
I recently completed AOE’s Choice Based Art Ed online course. I have never had a more reflective and productive professional development course in my career as an educator. But, I also haven’t...
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The Biggest Complaint We Receive About AOE Classes
When you first register for any type of class or workshop, one of the big questions you have is about the workload: Will this be a joke? Will it be a bunch of tests and papers? Will it be worth my...
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Do These 4 Simple Things to Ensure You Never Run Out of Ideas In The Artroom...
It’s another day of professional development in your district, and getting it to actually be applicable to your own classroom is a Sisyphean task. You have the PE teacher to your left and the music...
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10 Things No One Tells You About Taking an AOE Class
Maybe you’ve heard the spiel or read the reviews on the website. Maybe you’ve heard a fellow art educator raving about the Ridiculously Relevant™ class he just took, but you want more! You want to know...
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