The quarter culminates with Exhibit Night, during which
selected pieces of student work are presented.
Not exact matches
No, this isn't another
piece about how online learning can allow
students to continue to learn even when school is canceled because
of snow — although online learning could arguably help a
select number
of parents who can
work from home solve the problem faced when this happens.
Using a set
of guidelines,
students selected four
pieces (including drafts as well as final copies) and provided several written reflections on their writing processes, rationale for their selections, and the criteria they used for judging their
work.
Making judgments about
student learning and school quality based on a body
of work — a
select number
of pieces of student work from a number
of assessments within a given discipline, provides a much richer and more accurate picture
of student learning than a single, disconnected standardized test.
Jon Mueller, a psychology professor at North Central College in Illinois, says that portfolios can be easy to manage and offers some tips for items to include in what he calls «no - fuss» portfolios: Have
students select a
piece or two
of their
work over the course
of a quarter, semester or year; at the time
of each selection, have the
student write a brief reflection on the item, as well as why she included it; and, at the end
of the quarter, semester or school year, ask
students to reflect again on each item.
Students then use visual - spatial intelligence when creating a story board and
selecting images for the the multimedia
piece; verbal - linguistic intelligence when writing scripts and recording the narration for the PSA; spatial intelligence when evaluating and
selecting images; and interpersonal and verbal - linguistic intelligences when
working as a team and planning a narrative that would truly convince others
of the importance
of evacuation.
In the Classroom: After
students have read Don Tate's It Jes» Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw and Kathy Whitehead's Art from Her Heart: Folk Artist Clementine Hunter, use an Internet image search to
select online images
of Bill Traylor's or Clementine Hunter's
work, and ensure that you have collected at least one
piece of artwork per
student.
The exhibition includes
selected works from SFCB's Imprint Publications Artist in Residence and Small Plates editions, large scale prints from eight years
of Roadworks: A Steamroller Printing Festival, and juried
pieces from SFCB's celebrated instructors and
students.