Next meeting is December 18 in room 324
Rudy and Canfield attended a seminar last spring with the book’s author, Bruce Taylor, and reflected on how useful and relevant the material in Common Sense Arts Standards seemed to developing contemporary arts curriculum aligned with the CC. Common Sense Arts Standards also holds relevant content for academic teachers seeking to utilize more arts content in their CC lessons.
On Thursday, November 20, we met to discuss chapter 2. You should have received a copy in your mailbox. There is also a copy on hold in the library. If you were unable to attend, please respond to the following questions and post to the blog. This is done in the comments section at the end of this post.
2 What unit later in the year can you begin to rework for the purpose of the PD? Please consider this a real unit the will be taught in you classroom, reflected upon and used as evidence of process and student outcomes for the purpose of this PD.
If you are unable to attend the meeting tomorrow please respond with two observations from the reading material and your responses to the 2 questions above.
Parker:
ReplyDeleteThis is a test. Note, however, Thursday's discussion was insightful. Taylor made solid language parallels between academic and arts subjects.
Present: Lavin, Gallagher, Dewey, Canfield, Rudy, Kime, Fellows
ReplyDeleteNotes:
Thoughts and discussion about Part III and IV
· Text tells us it is a framework for a process
· Does a good job in aligning arts language with Common Core language
· In theory – how is the educational system going to change that fast. It will take years.
· Need arts general ways that help more students – simple, direct higher order thinking – is this really good for the arts?
· This is difficult for subject areas – not content based
· Author is critical of modules – group overall in agreement
· If we understood common core we might understand how to implement it.
· Chart on Page 38 was most useful
· Author’s ideas seem to be a threat for arts education – too much integration of art into non-arts classes… non arts teachers teaching arts
· Does Common Core focus on the why of learning/??
· Author seems to skirt around what common core is supposed to really be. He doesn’t really nail it down or sufficiently answer the question in terms of coming to an understanding
· Author agrees Common Core is a good thing and wants it to become a renaissance of arts education and try to make arts relevant with this new structure
· Acknowledges arts education as an enormous thing in our world – arts Is under-fire financially so he is trying to make it more important
· There should be a desperation to incorporate the arts..are we pushing the arts into other subjects or art we promoting arts education?
· The goals that the common core provides is good and make sense – but teachers should be able to implement them as they feel is relevant and appropriate.
· The text clearly expresses that Common Core is on the back of the money engine and didn’t necessarily come first – making money came first and Common Core came later – it is disingenuous in how Common Core came about
· Implementation of Common Core should have been a long, slow process.
Next Steps for CLC:
· We have been focusing on the book and need to start focusing on lesson planning or curriculum development based on the book
· Ideas for proceeding: choose a buddy to develop an interdisciplinary lesson with, music/physics, Boston Massacre/Guernica, Color/Science
· Next Meeting: changed 12/29 meeting date to online meeting
· Online meeting will be based on next chapter in book.
· Each person will read the chapter, post a blog about the chapter, include ideas for lesson/curriculum development, and respond to others’ blogs.
· Ken will distribute copies of next chapter and frame the focus of the discussions for the blogging,
Susan Rudy
Visual Arts
School of the Arts
susan.rudy@rcsdk12.org