How I use the pacing tracker for a project-based art class

I was not sure the pacing tracker would be useful for art since my schedule does not follow a standard lesson-a-day structure. I was wrong. Here is how I adapt…

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I was not sure the pacing tracker would be useful for art since my schedule does not follow a standard lesson-a-day structure. I was wrong. Here is how I adapted it: instead of planning individual lessons, I plan project phases. So a unit on perspective drawing has a phase for introduction and guided practice, a phase for independent work, a phase for critique and revision, and a phase for final presentation. Each phase gets a block of days in the pacing tracker. This immediately showed me some…

Reply from marcuswebb

The phase-based approach to the pacing tracker is something I do for English writing units too. Breaking it into drafting, conferencing, revision, and publishing rather than daily lessons makes the tracker actually fit the work. Good to hear it translates to art.

Reply from priyapatel

I noticed the same thing about revision time once I put my units in the tracker. Seeing it on a timeline made the imbalance impossible to ignore. I added two extra days to my revision phase this summer just from looking at how short it actually was.

Reply from jenwalsh

The annotations feature for previous-year notes is one of the things I am most excited to use this fall. I have been keeping a separate doc with that kind of reflection for years and it is always buried by November. Having it inside the lesson plan makes so much more sense.