TExES Art EC-12 178 case studies
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The TExES Art EC-12 (178) is one of the Texas Examinations of Educator Standards, the content tests that Texas uses as part of the certification process for classroom teachers. This particular test is aimed at candidates who intend to teach art to students from early childhood through grade 12, whether in a dedicated art classroom, a studio setting, or an integrated curriculum role. The TExES Art EC-12 178 case studies are 5 cases and about 4,246 words.
1The Kiln in the Storage Alcove
Your middle school has one kiln, installed in a storage alcove that opens directly into the art room, and no exterior venting. You teach five sections of 26 students and have wanted to add a clay unit for two years.
827 words, about 4 min2Everything Comes Out Gray-Brown
Third graders in a Title I elementary school have art once a week for 40 minutes. Your 25 students just finished tempera paintings of their "special place," and the results are uniformly gray-brown.
794 words, about 4 min3"Masks of the World" and the Pinterest Board
You are planning a fifth-grade unit called "Masks of the World" built from a shared Pinterest board. The board mixes Makonde helmet masks from Mozambique, Yoruba Gelede masks from Nigeria, Venetian carnival masks, and Iroquois "false face" masks, all captioned "African masks" except the Venetian ones.
849 words, about 4 min4The Generated Self-Portrait
An Art I student submits, as her "identity self-portrait," a digital image generated by an online text-to-image tool, with a written statement arguing that since Duchamp submitted a urinal and Sherrie Levine rephotographed Walker Evans, authorship is a convention the artist can choose. Two other students are furious that she "didn't do the work" and one says she should get a zero.
880 words, about 4 min5Six Hundred Students and a Number Grade
Your K-5 school has moved to choice-based art: students choose media and subject from studio centers. You see 24 classes a week, about 600 students, and the district now requires a numeric grade each nine weeks plus two documented parent contacts for students at risk of failing.
896 words, about 4 min