Empowering Future Generations Through Arts Education Exploration

1. Welcome Arts Educators

2. Career Exploration Questions • What is your passion? • What would you pay to do? • How would you fill your days if you were a millionaire? • Answer: Be an Arts Educator!

3. Recognition • Longevity in Arts Education 20+ years 10>19 years 1-9 years • National Board Certification • Advanced Degree (Masters, Doctorate) • Teacher of the Year Recognition • Professional Organization • Practicing Artist • Staff Development Coordinators

4. Teacher Evaluation Instrument • Std. I - Demonstrate leadership • Std. II - Establish a respectful environment • Std. III - Know the content they teach • Std. IV - Facilitate learning for students • Std. V - Reflect on their practice

5. can move have fewer lectures - more hands-on activities play problem-solving games related to the topic can sometimes collaborate in groups & work alone experience the real-world learn in a pleasant environment (with the arts around them) Keep the curriculum engaging Teach children how to take risks Maintain high expectations - not because of results but because of integrity Effective Teachers Students say they learn best when they: If every teacher were an elective teacher he/she would:

6. Characteristics of anEffective Arts Teacher • Know/Think • Vision • Say • Strengths • Feel • Actions • Weaknesses

7. Reflection

8. Staffing Challenges • Fewer months of employment (MOEs) • Limited facilities • Limited materials • Accountability for student performance on standardized tests

9. Examples of Success • Arts teacher webpages / technology • Participation on Leadership teams • Being seen as a team player • Principals can attest to the academic support you are providing in Literacy & 21st century skills

10. How the Arts Fit… • Evaluation Instrument • 21st century skills • Literacy in the Arts • Grading Practices (Work Habits) • Differentiation • Benchmarks & Student Achievement Data

11. Where we want to be… • Ensure Comprehensive - High Quality - Consistent Arts programming is available to all students across the district • Increase Arts elective participation at the Secondary level to 50% or >

12. Where we want to be… • The public will: • Understand the viability of arts careers • Acknowledge the benefit of the arts in eliminating the achievement gap and enhancing achievement for all • Increase support for the arts as evidenced by facilities, attendance, teaching positions, collaborative community projects

13. High Quality, Consistent, Assessable Arts Education Across the School System Vision: • Arts students will graduate on time, college and career ready. While discovering their passion, they will achieve excellence through rigorous study of deeply aligned arts curriculum.

14. WCPSS Arts Education • Professional Learning Teams • Content Specific Staff Development • Online support • benchmarks • CMAPP - based on Essential Standards

15. The Arts Curriculum is based on: • Creating – express ideas and feelings through improvisation and composition • Performing – demonstrate and communicate their learning/artistic skill • Responding – engage in higher order/critical thinking skills to analyze, interpret, evaluate • Understanding/Connecting– synthesize knowledge of the arts within a variety of contexts – history, culture, other content areas, and the world around them. • So - what do the Arts do for students??

16. Elevator Speech • Creating – express ideas and feelings through improvisation and composition • Performing – demonstrate and communicate their learning/artistic skill • Responding – engage in higher order/critical thinking skills to analyze, interpret, evaluate • Understanding/Connecting– synthesize knowledge of the arts within a variety of contexts – history, culture, other content areas, and the world around them. Make it Simple & Real AND Memorable!

17. Teacher Evaluation Instrument • Std. I - Demonstrate leadership • Std. II - Establish a respectful environment • Std. III - Know the content they teach • Std. IV - Facilitate learning for students • Std. V - Reflect on their practice

18. Music Literacy • Steady Beat Exercise • What grade level • What was done before this grade so they are successful • Where does it go from here

19. Elements of Dance: K-2

20. Elements of Dance: 3-5

21. Elements of Dance

22. Elements of Dance: 9-12

23. New Essential StandardsStrands

24. Unpacking Essential Standards Gather with your content colleagues Review the Essential Standards between Grades 5 &6 Identify challenges, concerns, priorities

25. Reflection

26. The Arts prepare students for success in the 21st century The workforce says they need employees with the following abilities and experiences: • Collaborative groups • Band, Dance, Theatre, Choral Ensembles • Visual Art Murals • Willingness to take a risk – students create work and submit it for public critique • Playwriting • Music composition • Choreography • Visual Design

27. Workforce says they need employees with the following skills: • Creative Problem Solving (through improvisation students find a variety of solutions for different situations and analyze them for efficacy • Interpersonal skills – students in the arts learn to respect and celebrate diversity of thought, background, skill – because of their opportunities to collaborate and present – they learn how to work comfortably with a wide variety of people • Ability to relay compelling/persuasive arguments • Presentation skills - performing and communicating their work develops: • Stage presence, diction and projection, confidence, clear - compelling explanations

28. Teacher Evaluation Instrument • Std. I - Demonstrate leadership • Std. II - Establish a respectful environment • Std. III - Know the content they teach • Std. IV - Facilitate learning for students • Std. V - Reflect on their practice

29. Benchmarks in the Arts: By the completion of their secondary education, students should be able to: • Communicate at a basic level in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts) • Communicate proficiently in at least one art form • Analyze & Evaluate work in various disciplines • Recognize & appreciate exemplary works of art • Make connections across disciplines

30. Compare/contrast these two works of art Criticize the artists’ choices Create an artistic response in your own art form Pablo Picasso - Cubism Fernand Leger - Cubism

31. Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

32. High Quality, Consistent, Assessable Arts Education Across the School System Vision: • Arts students will graduate on time, college and career ready. While discovering their passion, they will achieve excellence through rigorous study of deeply aligned arts curriculum.

33. Professional Development • Content Specific • Online - Wiki • Hybrid

34. Trudy Elliott Logistics

35. Remember: Effective Arts Stickman Arts Vision - Elevator Speech Unpack the new essential standards Sign up on Eschools Complete Personnel Data Link Ramp instruction up Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

36. Guest Artists

37. Parting Words Remember - we teach - not for the praise, but for the difference we make in people's lives - not for the places we take them, but the skills we give them to navigate their next journey.