Goal: This community of learners will
explore the resources on a practical, cost-free Internet site called
"Technology Resources for Arts Educators". Using one or
more of the resources found, each participant will develop and post
to the Community Web Page a standards-based model instructional
plan for his/her content area and pupils. Each participant will
also search the Internet, identify one or more appropriate resources
to be added to the "Technology Resources" database and
post it using the response form on the site.
Product: Community
Web Page with standards-based instructional plans, in addition to
the Technology Resources Web Site, and suggestions for the Technology
Resources Web Site.
Goal: This community of learners will
research the possible ways that teachers and school districts can
report the results of assessments of proposed PA Academic Standards
9.1.j/k. Participants will review Marzano and Kendall's work and
the PA Academic Standards-Based Assessment Training Manual on reporting
out on standards-based assessment. Participants will review traditional
report card vs. scoring guides/rubrics/process portfolios/authentic
assessment. They will review the reporting from the National Assessment
of Education Progress assessment. They will study the use of contemporary
technology as a tool for reporting student progress to students
and their parents. They will discuss the staff development and community
public relations efforts necessary to effect changes in school reporting
methods.
Product: Community
Web Page with links to sample reporting formats, research, staff,
community development recommendations, and uses of contemporary
technologies for reporting to students and their parents. The web
page will also include the participants’ personal reflections on
this topic.
Goal: Participants
in this community of learners will explore and discuss how arts educators
can work with all students to meet proposed PA Academic Standards
9.1.j/k. They will discuss the following questions: How can high school
students gain proficiency in arts technology when 80% of them are
not enrolled in arts courses? How can students meet this standard
if their school does not have a computer or computer lab? Is the proficiency
level for a talented arts student the same as for a student with an
Individual Education plan? Will proficiency vary from district to
district? They will identify and describe types of accommodations
and adaptations for arts education. Interaction with the "Sound
Beam", an affordable system that levels the technology playing
field for all students, will be used by participants to create exercises
and apply a simple rubric that defines proficiency for art, music,
theatre, or dance. Participants will also search the Internet to discover
programs and technologies that have built-in accommodations and adaptations
and can be used by arts educators to help all students meet Standards
9.1.j/k.
Product:
Community Web Page with sample of what "below basic",
"basic", "proficient", and "advanced"
might look, sound, or act like at various grade levels using work
with the "Sound Beam" and a list of proposals and suggestions
that colleagues across the state can use to help all of their students
gain proficiency in the use of contemporary technologies.
Goal:
This community of learners will provide descriptions of what K-12
indicators in the arts and technologies might look like. Participants
will experience a process for developing indicators that can be used
in their schools and classrooms. Under the guidance of the lead participants
will describe what "know and use", "apply", "incorporate
specific uses of", "analyze and evaluate use of" contemporary
technology might look, sound or act like (as established in proposed
PA Academic Standards 9.1.j/k).
Product: Community
Web Page that provides specific descriptors for proposed PA Academic
Standards 9.1.j/k and that recommends a process for developing K-12
indicators for the PA Arts and Humanities Standards.
Goal:
Each participant in this community of learners will prepare standards-based
planned instruction featuring proposed PA Academic Standards 9.1.j/k.
Production, performance, and exhibition using contemporary technologies
will be the basis of the content of this instruction, with cutting
edge technology as the text for learning. Members of this community
will be given a sampling of technology, video, and Internet resources
from which to choose in preparing their own planned instruction. The
resulting planned instruction will be posted on a Community Web Page
in a standard prepared format. In addition, this community will participate
in a two-way interactive videoconference with participants in the
4ARTS program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, as sponsored
by ARIN Intermediate Unit #28. Participants will observe middle school
students from Indiana County involved in an instructional plan toward
proposed PA Academic Standards 9.1.j after which they will discuss
the plan with the students and teachers.
Product: Community
Web Page with standards-based instructional plans.
Goal:
This dialogue group will research, analyze and discuss trends, visions,
questions and work in contemporary technologies in the arts and their
implications for teaching and learning in the arts. We will address
the issues of aesthetics, work processes, exhibition and performance
and the impact on the audience and culture. We will view and experience
a wide range of web and disk-based works by professional and student
artists across the arts disciplines. We will make recommendations
on ways to address, utilize and integrate these findings about new
media technologies in arts education. In addition, this community
will participate in a two-way interactive videoconference with staff
at the Philadelphia Museum of the Arts.
Product::
Community Web Page that points to new media works, offers an analysis
and recommendations, and enables further discovery and dialogue
about these issues.
Goal:
This community of learners will visit
the PA Governor's School for the Arts where they will shoot video
and take digital pictures of the work being done with the Governor's
School students by Troika Ranch, a dance theatre company that uses
media and interactive technology as elements of their work. Troika
Ranch will also visit and interact with Institute participants. Community
participants will reflect on the use of traditional and contemporary
technologies for creating, performing and exhibiting the arts.
Product: Community
Web Page that presents the reflection journals for each member of
the community of learners. The journals will define the issues and
raise questions about the use of new technologies. Participants
will also present a process portfolio on the website that includes
video clips and pictures of the Governor's School activities.
Goal:
This community of learners will discuss the following concerns:
We all have strategies to determine what our students know,
but how do we determine that they know? How do we evaluate
the depth and richness of their comprehension through their work as
visual and performing artists? Participants will develop model rubrics
and identify resources to assist and guide arts educators across the
Commonwealth in their struggle to assess student achievement in creating,
performing and exhibiting works in the visual and performing arts.
Product: Community
Web Page with model rubrics for assessing Proposed PA Academic Standards
9.1.j/k and links to aid in development of classroom assessments.