Acting as both teacher and colleague, teacher encouraged student to look at and borrow from the brushwork of painters like Vincent van Gogh, Mark Tobey, Jackson Pollack, and Franz Klein. Her final product was a series of large ink paintings that brought together the eloquent brush technique of calligraphy with the demands of Western still-life and landscape painting. Provide insight into students' abilities to pose and pursue worthwhile questions. By looking across a student or a class portfolio, he can begin to see where an individual or an ensemble excels or flounders. He can see the particular profile of skills and how it shifts or improves over time.
Students judge themselves.
At the end of the semester, a student can take his or her portfolio, page through the materials, and form a picture of what has developed, how it came into being, where difficulties remain, and directions for future work. As part of the process of reflecting on the body of their work, students can become aware of the particular signature they give to prints, performances, or poems. This kind of self-awareness is a critical ingredient in being able t o step back and think about one's work. Teachers have to investigate just which aspects of student learning to document. Must develop common, reliable assessments of the materials that students generate in their projects, portfolios, and interviews.