Welcome to the 2008 Governor’s Institute for Arts Educators

1. Welcome to the 2008 Governor’s Institute for Arts Educators Jamie Kasper Cindy Mierzejewski Fine Arts and Humanities Advisor Site Director Pennsylvania Department of Education Berks County IU 14

2. Overview of the week • Standards-aligned system • Big ideas and essential questions • What’s going on in the arts and education?

3. THIS WEEK’S LEARNING

4. Unit work is done in chunks:

5. Monday Unit work is done and submitted to Keyarts by 9:15.

6. Tuesday Unit work is done and submitted to Keyarts by 7:30.

7. Wednesday Unit work is done and submitted to Keyarts by 6:00.

8. Thursday Unit work is done and submitted to Keyarts by 4:00.

9. Your first assignment!

10. When will you meet for regional team planning? Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

11. Content Area Partners (CAPs) • Most are returning participants • Separate leadership track • Create and evaluate podcasts • Facilitate regional plans

12. Your second assignment: • Read over the unit rubric. This is how participant units will be scored. • Discuss with your neighbor and be ready to complete this sentence: “The GIAE rubric scores the ________ of participant work.”

13. Your second assignment: • Read over the unit rubric. This is how participant units will be scored. • Discuss with your neighbor and be ready to complete this sentence: “The GIAE rubric scores the QUALITY of participant work.”

14. How do I receive graduate credit?

15. Participants • Actively participate • Proficient unit • At least 4 work samples • Upload to Keyarts – MARCH 1, 2009 • Email Julia

16. CAPs • Actively participate • Create a podcast • Evaluate a podcast • Regional workshops on September 27 • Summary to Julia – MARCH 1, 2009

17. Regional team planning Who leads the regional team planning? • Cindy • Faculty • Rosemary • CAPs

18. 5 minute stretch break!

19. BIG IDEAS and ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

20. Standards-Aligned System (SAS)

21. Big Ideas • Overarching statements that guide exploration of a particular topic • Naturally lead to questions • Also known as enduring understandings – what do you want students to remember if you meet them on the street in 20 years?

22. Essential Questions • Have no simple “right” answer; they are meant to be argued • Are designed to provoke and sustain student inquiry • Lead to more questions From “Understanding by Design: Professional Development Workbook”, McTighe and Wiggins, 2004

23. The places where people live have an impact on their way of life What is life like in Japan? How does where we live influence how we live?

24. Rich and compelling content Big idea Essential question Summative task

25. What’s going on in the arts and education? • 21st century skills • Civic engagement • Innovation and imagination

26. 21st century skills • Engaged students • Relevant content • Technology to facilitate learning • Students connected to others via web 2.0 tools • Wikis • Blogs • Social networking • Bookmarking • …

27. Civic engagement • “Twenty-Six” Student Advocacy Kit • PennCORD

28. Innovation and imagination • www.TED.com – Technology, Entertainment, Design • Over 200 weekly TEDTalks about the arts, education, culture and more “Every so often it makes sense to emerge from the trenches we dig for a living, and ascend to a 30,000-foot view, where we see, to our astonishment, an intricately interconnected whole.”

29. THE END…and the beginning Social (half) hour will begin in MISSION HALL at 5:30.

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