Teaching for Artistic Behavior, or TAB, is: "a nationally recognized choice-based art education approach to teaching art. Developed in Massachusetts classrooms over thirty five years, and through courses and research at Massachusetts College of Art.
Choice-based art education regards students as artists and offers them real choices for responding to their own ideas and interests through the making of art. Choice-based art education supports multiple modes of learning and assessment for the diverse needs of students." (www.teachingforartisticbehavior.org)
Many teachers have found that switching over to a TAB transforms the classroom from a place where they were always battling for control, to a place where they can effectively facilitate the student's art making.
This may be because in a choice based environments students are invested in their work (because they CHOSE to do it) and because they can work at their own pace and are not hurried or bored, which often leads to misbehavior.
