Teacher as Curator: Formative Assessment and Arts-Based Strategies

by Lisa Donovan, Sarah Anderberg, Beth Lambert (Foreword)

Teacher as Curator provides a roadmap for using creative strategies to engage both educators and students in the learning process. Focusing on key qualities of culturally and linguistically responsive arts learning, chapters specifically demonstrate how arts integration strategies and formative assessment can be a catalyst for change in the classroom. Readers will be inspired by teachers and practitioners who have donned the role of curator to achieve significant results. Kindergarten–college educators will find research-based protocols and practices that they can translate into any educational setting. In digestible chapters, this resource provides a theoretical base for building artistic literacy into the curriculum and for developing multimodal opportunities for students to demonstrate their understanding of content. Book

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2013

Reviews

[Peaches · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a decent read. I liked how organized it was and how the authors compared teaching to the hero's journey. They provided a lot of examples and strategies for k-12 educators to consider, complete with connections to learning standards and examples.
I do think they gloss over race even though they continuously mention culturally responsive teaching and they do not address socioeconomic factors at all. For instance, the inappropriately recommend using the "Where I'm From" poem with students to allow them to express their cultures, while not explaining how students experiencing trauma may not have the same positive experience writing the poem.