An Art Teacher Knows What to Do with Bubble Tests
I have a visceral distaste for the very idea of measuring the arts with a standardized multiple-choice test.
This strikes me the sort of technocratic thinking that is driving creativity and ingenuity underground and crushing it whenever it dares to appear in a schoolroom.
We know that the only reason this idea is being considered is in order to generate enough data to evaluate teachers of the arts.
Imagine: Asking students in the band to answer bubble questions about composers or music.
Or asking students in a sculpture class to name this artist.
What’s the point? We want students to have cultural literacy but these kinds of learnings belong in the study of
This strikes me the sort of technocratic thinking that is driving creativity and ingenuity underground and crushing it whenever it dares to appear in a schoolroom.
We know that the only reason this idea is being considered is in order to generate enough data to evaluate teachers of the arts.
Imagine: Asking students in the band to answer bubble questions about composers or music.
Or asking students in a sculpture class to name this artist.
What’s the point? We want students to have cultural literacy but these kinds of learnings belong in the study of
