Vickie Chaffin, Kernodle Middle School, Sub Plans

Grant Wood, American Gothic Assignment
Rube Goldberg Wild and Wacky Inventions

American Farm Scenes No. 4 from Currier and Ives Grid

Vickie Chaffin, Kernodle Middle School's "Amazing Mazes" by her 7th graders

Vickie Chaffin, Kernodle Middle School's Picasso-like portraits

Can our tight budgets get cinched any further? How are you stretching your supplies?

I don't know about you, but at our school we are working under a very tight budget. Like always, we are doing fund raisers just to have supplies to teach our classes. I know that we are all feeling the same pinch. Art teachers tend to be very resourceful and will substitute things that are not typically used as art supplies and make them work for projects.
What are you doing to stretch your supplies at your school?

NCAEA Conference in New Bern

If you attended this year's 2010 NCAEA Conference in New Bern, do you have any intereting topics or photos that you would like to share with us? Did you find any new products that were advertised by the vendors that we should look for?

Are We Working Smarter?

I have spent a great deal of time in front of the computer lately doing grades on NC Wise, the personal assessment and the PDP (Professional Development Plan) on the NC Educator Evaluation System. I am hoping that all of this extra time spent on the computer will prove to be a more effective system for grades and teacher evaluations down the road. No doubt, having NC Wise available to parents will be a helpful tool. I wonder how effective the new teacher assessment will be.
What are your thoughts on the NC Educator Evaluation System? Do you feel that this assessment is a more or less realistic way to measure the performance of an art educator?