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Thinking like an Artist

Description: An article featured in Arts & Activities newsletter, by Pamela Geiger Stephens and Michelle Mattoon. Pamela Geieger Stephens is a teaching fellow and graduate research assistant at the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, University of North Texas, and Michelle Mattoon is a pre-service art specialist at the University of North Texas. Their article, "Thinking like an Artist," is about a puzzle activity for school children to help develop their own original ideas and encourages… more
Date: September 1998
Creator: Stephens, Pamela Geiger & Mattoon, Michelle
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In Connecticut, Moving Past Pencil and Paper

Description: A newsletter, Education Week, Editorial Project in Education, Vol. 9, No. 1. "In Connecticut, Moving Past Pencil and Paper, Teachers Evaluated On Class Behavior." Fifty-five educators were learning a new language of assessment, and the new assessments for teachers and students were pioneered in Connecticut. Connecticut introduces what is said to be the nation's most rigorous assessment of entry-level teachers. The assessment will be administered, six times a year, to new teachers. The implement… more
Date: September 13, 1989
Creator: Bradley, Ann
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Eastern Hills Elementary Events

Description: A clipping from the Greater Meadowbrook Shopping News, featuring a snippet on Mrs. Suzi Reid, art teacher at Eastern Hills Elementary helping her students put up touches on a classroom projects, a thumb print tree.
Date: September 28, 1995
Creator: Greater Meadowbrook Shopping News
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[First-grade teachers using shapes, colors]

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on first-grade teachers at Pilot Point Independent School District working with colors and shapes. The classroom recently had a "green day" where they were served green eggs and ham to illustrate Dr. Seuss's book, Green Eggs and Ham.
Date: September 13, 1990
Creator: Kirby, Linda
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Testing and the Process of Change

Description: Photocopy of an article, discussing the National Assessment project designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the educational system through an assessment of success. Students were tested on how they responded to art, if they valued art as a medium, how skillfully they produced art and how much history they know. By collecting the date it was possible to make claims about the status of art teaching.
Date: September 1986
Creator: Wilson, Brent
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