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How to Prepare a Study Guide

This training program is a collaborative project of the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, Katie Adams’ Make Believe Theatre and VSA – Florida and is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

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www.cpalms.org

» CPALMS is an online database and is the State of Florida’s official source for standards information and course descriptions.

» CPALMS provides access to thousands of standards-aligned, free, and high-quality instructional/educational resources that have been developed specifically for the standards and vetted through a rigorous review process.

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There are several different ways to access the Standards. You can access the Standards by:

Grade level (See grade level buttons)

Dropdown menu marked “Standards”

Via the Course descriptions using the dropdown menu marked “Course”.

Access via Dropdown menus

Access by Grade Level

Accessing via the Standards Menu

As you can see, the Standards are organized by subject. Scroll down the page to review all subjects. You should always start by identifying Standards that directly relate to your primary art form.

Subject Areas

Let’s take a look at the Theatre standards.

Subject Areas

When you access a subject area, the Standards are then organized by applicable grade level. Most are organized by individual grades but some will group 6-8, 9-12 as well as broader K-12 for areas such as Gifted. Select a grade level.

Grade Levels

The next level of organization encompasses the overall or broad view of the learning goals. Within the Arts Standards (Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts) this is referred to as the “Big Idea”. Other subject areas use different terminology (please see Terminology chart after organizational definitions.)

Broad View of Learning Goals

The overall learning goal is then broken down into more focused goals that are still fairly broad. Within the Art Standards these are referred to as “Enduring Understandings”. Other subject areas use different terminology (please see Terminology chart after organizational definitions.)

FocusedView ofLearningGoals

Next, the focused goal or Enduring Understanding is broken down into specific Benchmarks. The benchmarks guide instruction and assessment.

Benchmarks

Subject Area Broad View of Learning Goal Focused View of Learning Goal

Dance Big Idea Enduring Understanding

English Language Arts Strand Cluster

Gifted Goal Idea

Health Education Strand Idea

Mathematics Domain-Subdomain Cluster

Music Big Idea Enduring Understanding

Physical Education Strand Idea

Science Body of Knowledge Big Idea/Supporting Idea

Social Studies Strand Standard

Special Skills Domain Idea

Theatre Big Idea Enduring Understanding

Visual Arts Big Idea Enduring Understanding

World Languages Performance Level Standard

Terminology by Subject Area

Let’s take a look at accessing the standards by grade level.Select grade 3.

Select grade 3

This will take you to the “Toolkit” for the grade level selected. The information is organized once again by subject area. The Standards for each subject area are available as well as other resources and tools like sample lesson plans, student activities, etc. Not all subject areas will have all the resources. Select the Dance Standards

The 33 benchmarks/standards that are applicable for this grade level are displayed. At this point, you would look at the benchmarks and select one or two that are applicable to your performance or workshop. Select the “More Information” link for the first benchmark.

This will give detailed description as well as broad view and focused view. It also provides direct access to related courses and their descriptions. Let’s look at the related course.

The initial view displays related course number(s). You can select the number to see the detailed course description.

The course description gives detail of skills learned throughout the course as well as the course length, keywords and grade levels. It also gives all related course standards and related resources. Let’s look at the course standards.

This is most helpful. It gives all standards related to this course, regardless of subject area. Further information on each standard is available by selecting the standard.

Let’s take a look at reviewing the Standards via the Course Deszcriptions.

Access via Course Description menu

The Course Descriptions are categorized by type. Select Grades PreK to 12 Education Courses.

This divides the courses into elementary, middle and high school/adult. Select Grades PreK to 5 Education Courses.

The courses are now broken down by subject area. It is recommended that you start with your primary art form at this point. Let’s take a look at Drama-Theatre Arts.

The PreK to 5 Education Courses are all general in nature. If we were exploring secondary course work, the subject area would be further categorized. Select General.

This gives the Courses available. Please note – they are divided by grade level as well as difficulty. Select the first course.

This gives you the full description of the course as well as related standards and resources.

If you take a look at the standards, you will again see that they pertain not only to Drama/Theatre but other subject areas as well.