CORE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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Course A: Strategies and Resources for Arts Integration
Credits: 3 units (30 hours)
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $299.00
Understanding Goals:
What is outstanding arts education? What tools can I use to develop and deliver meaningful arts curriculum that has social relevance for my students?
This hands-on course focuses on art and art integrated teaching, curriculum development, and assessment using educational tools like Teaching for Understanding and Studio Thinking frameworks from Harvard’s Project Zero. Students develop curriculum that targets deep understanding and draws upon contemporary art practice from a diversity of perspectives and cultures. How to create visual arts and interdisciplinary arts strategies will be the focus.
Participants analyze existing curriculum and look at contemporary art practice to inspire their own curriculum development. They investigate the different ways that art helps people formulate questions, think about, synthesize, and express knowledge and learning. Participants also analyze curriculum delivery and implementation. Using observation protocols to help focus inquiry and discussion, the course examines a variety of arts learning experiences. At the end of the course, each participant has a binder of resources, as well as curricula and assessment tools created by the class that they can put into use in the classroom and share with their school or organization.
Participants understand:
• the breadth and depth of what art integration can be.
• how to develop, assess, and deliver curriculum that targets deep understanding and draws upon contemporary art practice from a diversity of perspectives and cultures
• how art making can connect to the knowledge, purposes, forms, and methods of other disciplines (developing powerful and authentic arts integrated learning experiences)
• how to develop learning communities to share knowledge and propel learning across disciplines and grade levels
Course B: Ongoing Assessment Strategies and Applications: Making Learning Visible, Studio Habits of Mind, Rubrics and Portfolios
Credits: 3 units (30 hours)
Prerequisite: Recommended Course A and/or B
Cost: $299.00
Understanding Goals:
How can I use student assessment as a way to deepen student understanding and improve my teaching practice? What protocols, tools and applications can I use to make student learning visible?
Participants learn ongoing assessment strategies, including Studio Habits of Mind, Making Learning Visible and documentation, rubrics, and portfolios. They develop protocols, tools, and applications that are useful for evaluating and deepening their own learning and their students’ learning. Participants also choose an area of assessment to complete an action research project, and come together to share work at the end of the semester.
Participants understand:
• how to incorporate ongoing assessment into their teaching practice
• how to document students’ learning
• how to document and record their own learning
Course C: Collaborative Curriculum Design
Credits: 3 units (30 hours)
Prerequisite: Course A and/or B
Cost: $299.00
Understanding Goals:
How can we engage contemporary art education from diverse perspectives in our classrooms or community practice? How can we hone our curriculum development and teaching skills through Teaching for Understanding and ongoing assessment? How can we use collaboration as a tool to discover and support common goals in our arts learning and teaching practice?
This course builds on the arts integration and assessment courses to help teachers, teaching artists, museum educators and arts organization educators, build their own units and curricula. It is set up to look deeply at work and develop new curriculum through Teaching for Understanding and get support and feedback from the collective group. Participants learn how to use a variety of protocols, tools, and frameworks that are useful for evaluating and deepening classroom practice. Participants also consider points of inquiry, thinking deeply about their own contexts. Over the semester, participants share successes and challenges along with implementation and student outcomes. The last day will be devoted to sharing the work created. It is the goal of this course to work as a group collaboratively to support each other and share current practices in arts learning. In addition to the final presentation, participants are encouraged to share their visual documentation, research and projects with their own schools and organizations. Schools or arts organization collaborative teams are welcome and encouraged.
At the end of this course students will understand:
·How to create a TFU Unit
·Develop Arts integrated units that are engaging, rigorous and teach thinking skills.
·How to assess learning in an ongoing manner adjusting strategies as needed
·How to use and practice Teaching for Understanding, the Studio Habits of Mind and documentation to assess student learning and outcomes.
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