Expectations & Grading

Lessons will be available here through this website, under each class's dropdown menu and through Google Classroom. Links to Google classroom will also be available on it's lesson's webpage.

Ms. Kaiser's job is to get you a job.

The rules, standards, grading, and expectations are geared for your success in society.

What to Expect in Art class

Art History Slide shows

Discussing Art Before, during, and after creation.

Creating art. Yes! That's why you're here, am I right?

Critiques. Discussions on what you think and feel about your art and others'

Exhibiting your art. Show it off!

What is expected from the artist student

RESPECT to yourself, others, the classroom studio, and art supplies.

Participation in critiques.

Learn and apply the Elements of Art & Principles of Design

Hit basic requirements for each class. These will be presented to artists in class, and are available here, on the lesson's webpage, and Google Classroom page.

Investment in the SHoM (see below)

Online Portfolio Populate with properly framed imagery and content. Kept updated.

CLASSROOM RULES

This is a Studio Art Class. You are expected to create your art in the art classroom along with the class. There may be some remote/online assignments, but overall, this is hands-on with real materials.
If you are absent, it's Your Responbiltiy to find out what you missed.
Cell phones: Are allowed at Ms. Kaiser’s discretion, for listening to music. If so, it’s one earbud only. If you have over-ear headphones, oh well, you can’t use them. Not during class instruction or discussions. No phone calls and facetime are Never Allowed. If it’s an emergency, the caller should contact the main office to have you dismissed from class. *Make sure you tell friends and family before class the times you are free so you connect with them them.
Tardy: Be in the room before the bell rings. Dropping your stuff and leaving does not qualify you as being on time.
Sit at your assigned seat unless I give you OK to move.
Talk quietly with students at your table. Do not talk during instructional time.
You can bring your work home anytime. You are responsible for having it back for the next class.
Swearing? No. I understand slip-ups happen, but I will ask that you rephrase the sentence to be suitable for the classroom. If not, you can discuss the matter in the principal’s office.
You are responsible for cleaning your work area and the tools that you used. Leave No Trace. Be sneaky. Clean your workspace and the studio to look as if you were never there.

SHoM

Every project will be graded on what action the student artist is investing in ShoM. The Studio Habits of Mind describe eight dispositions students are taught so that they learn to think like artists. The studio structures are ways to organize time, space, and interactions in visual arts classrooms. All of these habits can be carried over to virtually any study, practice, and effort in life.

Develop Craft

(Technique and Studio Practice) Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.

Engage & Persist

(Finding Passion and Sticking with It through thick and thin) Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed, and imagine possible next steps in making a piece.

Envision

(Imagining & Planning) Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed, and imagine possible next steps in making a piece.

Express

(Finding & Showing Meaning) Learning to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning.

Observe

(Looking Closely) Learning to attend to visual contexts more closely than ordinary “looking” requires, and thereby to see things that otherwise might not be seen.

Reflect

(Question, Explain, and Evaluate) Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.

Stretch & Explore

(Play, Use Mistakes, and Discover) Learning to reach beyond one’s capacities, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes.

Understand Art Worlds

(Domain and Communities) Learning to interact as an artist with other artists (i.e., in classrooms, in local arts organizations, and across the art field) and within the broader society. Arts is in parenthesis here as it can easily be switched with other disciplines, like science or history.

Artists_habits_of_mind copy.pdf

Every lesson/project will focus on one to several combinations of the Elements of Art and Principles of Design.

Otherwise known as the Es & Ps.

Copy of Es & Ps.pdf

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