Episode 25: Podcast Recap

When students finish a your planned activity for they day or their overall project early, what do you do? In this episode we talk about many different ideas you can use to manage those early finished in your classes. 

Enrichment for your students can take many different forms. Push your students to do more with their current project or challenge them with the difficulty level. Have activities like books, coloring sheets, word searches, etc. that go along with your unit. Engage the whole class in an activity like a how to draw video that fits in with the content you’re teaching. Enriching students’ learning can be so many things.

Free art time can be underestimated. It can be very powerful for your students. It gives them time to be creative in so many different ways than they normally have the chance to be. 

Students can be so helpful when they get done early! They love to do jobs around the art room and that not only helps you out as the teacher, but it gives them ownership in the art room as well. Peer helpers are so great to have to teach other students the next steps of a project or coach each other through difficult steps. It benefits both students in different ways. 

Another way we talk about early finishers is small groups. You can use this opportunity to take those students who finish early and pull them aside for an assessment you need to do or to show them the next step or practice or prepare for an activity coming up in the future. 

We hope this helps give you some ideas of what to do with students who tend fo work faster! Check out our blog and other episodes of the podcast for even more information.

Keep blending,

Laura