Creating a TAB Community
By Abi Paytoe Gbayee As art teachers, we many times find ourselves as the only art educator in our building or even in our district.. When you add being a TAB teacher on top of that, it can be really lonely. I taught for 12 years in a district with 20 other art educators, and […]
Connecting with The Whole Student: Connections Between Culturally Responsive Teaching and Teaching for Artistic Behavior By Melissa Purtee
The success or struggle of Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) hinges on relationships. Successful TAB teachers trust their students to find and use their own ideas and believe that those ideas are worth pursuing in the first place. Students, on the other hand, have to trust their teacher enough to risk the vulnerability of sharing […]
The TAB Studio in the Time of COVID: Advocating for What We Do
by Diane Jaquith In previous blog posts about the COVID-19 pandemic and the TAB studio, we’ve shared thoughts from practicing teachers about relationship and community building. Here, we share what teachers are advocating for in this difficult time, as well as resources teachers have suggested for TAB teaching. My thing is mental health advocacy. I […]
The TAB Studio in the Time of COVID: Building Communities
By Diane Jaquith Blog 2: Building CommunitiesIn this second entry in a series about the challenges of teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers share their thoughts about community building, a central tenet to the TAB studio. BUILDING TAB STUDIO COMMUNITIES: QUOTES FROM TEACHERS Vygotsky talks about the collaborative aspect of learning and social creatures. Kids have […]
The TAB Studio in the Time of COVID-19 By Diane Jaquith
In the last TAB blog post, Julie Toole emphasized that strong communities and relationships are essential to learning. Relationships and community come first – TAB teachers innately understand this – and building these foundations starts on Day 1. Collaborative studio communities will grow and develop as the school year progresses, but first, teachers need to […]
Beyond the Art Room: Remote TAB Studio Learning In Pandemia
By: Clyde Gaw*Original blog post from: https://clydegaw.blogspot.com/2020/02/beyond-art-situating-learning-inside.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR27cxpD3RMPiJ5tpyuGPR5u4AUVfRuW6pE57BNCqnuZjjlD0qJzad7bRG0 K-12 educators across the World faced a new challenge at the beginning of Spring this March. With little warning, teachers reinvented or made major readjustments to their educational programs to accommodate remote learning mandates in a matter of hours. Instead of face to face interactions with teachers, fellow classmates, […]
TAB Group Norms
By TAB Board Members To maintain the open and accepting character of Teaching for Artistic Behavior as the organization continues to grow, the time has come for us to establish group norms. TAB classrooms are places educators and students create space to explore themselves and their world through artistic investigation and artmaking. When the student […]
An Early Childhood Model for TAB
By Claire Winkeler When I took a nine year unintentional detour to become a kindergarten classroom teacher, I had no idea it would turn out to be more relevant to my practice as an art teacher than any of the art teaching I’d done in previous years. Returning to a full-time art position, I picked […]
TAB Affiliates
Home Learn More Our History Board of Directors TAB Affiliates Studio Practice Resources Sketchbook Join Our Community TAB Affiliates Visual art educators from across the world have expanded the TAB community through teacher-to-teacher interactions. Conversations, ideas, and resources are shared in grassroots gatherings, school visits, and professional development on the internet. Find colleagues nearby who […]
2019 TAB Summer Institute: MAKING ARTISTS
Massachusetts College of Art & Design, July 7-13, 2019 “Thank you for creating and facilitating this amazing week that has renewed my passion to teach and has brought the spirit and voice out of my students like no other art education.” Spend a week in historic Boston with TAB educators to develop and expand understandings about […]