Opening Conversation

Opening Conversation

Spend a few moments looking at the card you received and consider and then write about how the card is like your life, and how it is different. Write

your thoughts on this sheet so you can share them with a partner.

Your card has at least one partner in the room.

Circulate among your colleagues at other tables to find your card partner. Have a conversation about which image might be the original and which was derived later, and how the image has been changed over time. Then,

with your partner, share some of the ways the card is like your life and how it is different.

When you and your partner have had a complete conversation about your cards travel to another group of card holders and share your images and

responses with them.

WELCOME toPerpich Arts Integration Network

of Teachers

October 13, 2010Lakes Country Service Cooperative

Thank you!

We appreciate the time you are taking from your students and classrooms to work together with each other.

A Blessing DescriptionThis two-hour lesson integrates learning in dance and literary art, specifically poetry. Zane, Christine

and Byron collaborate to plan, deliver and reflect on the success of this lesson. In preparation, students work in pairs to explore shapes and actions in response to selected words.

Then, students hear A Blessing read out loud and individually reflect on the blessings (the things in their lives that contribute to their happiness) they experience, writing their responses.

In small groups (of 4 to 6) students receive short cuttings (just a few lines) of the poem and ask each

other questions about the poem to probe it’s possible subtexts. After probing for meanings in the poem students work with a partner to illustrate the words and phrases they find meaningful.

They return to their group to share and select movements about the words and phrases in the poem

and build a sequence of movements for a classroom showing. After showing their movement pieces they use an assessment tool to report out their interpretation of their part of the poem and the correspondences they made between particular words and particular movements.

Words for Kinesthetic Response

Sunshine CactusBlossom

Breaking Growing

Confessing Snow Forgiveness

Bridge Leaf

Essential and Unit Questions

Essential questions: Focus on deep understandings of the topic/theme(s) being considered, fundamental

human conditions that emerge from the topic/theme(s), and a deep meaning and reaction to the topic/theme(s)

Are relevant and meaningful for students, and Encourage deep exploration of ideas related to the topic/theme(s)Example: Must a story have a moral, heroes and villains?

Unit questions:Are specific to a particular subject-and topic-specificFrame particular content and inquiry.Example: What is the moral of the story of the Holocaust? Is Huck Finn a hero?

The distinction between essential and unit questions is not black and white. Instead they should be viewed along a continuum of specificity.

A Blessing

• Essential Question: How Do Our Personal Experiences Influence Our Responses to Poetry (Art)?

• Unit Question: What is underneath this poem? For example, what is the emotional subtext.

Benchmarks• High School Dance• Strand I: Artistic Foundations• Standard 3: Demonstrate understanding of the personal, social, cultural and historical contexts that influence the arts areas.• Benchmark 2. Synthesize and express an individual view of the meanings and functions of dance such as dance as art, ritual,

cultural expressions, entertainment, spectacle and its social contexts.And• High School English Language Arts• Strand I: Reading and Literature• Sub-Strand D. Literature• Standard 1: The student will actively engage in the reading process and read, understand, respond to, analyze, interpret,

evaluate and appreciate a wide variety of fiction, poetic and nonfiction texts.• Benchmark 14. Respond to literature using ideas and details from the text to support reactions and make literary connections.Or• Common Core Reading Standards for Literature 6-12• Grades 9-10 students• 9.4.4.4 – Craft and Structures• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings;

analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone• 9.4.7.7 -- Integration of knowledge and ideas• Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or

absent in each treatment

Learning Goals

The student will:• Synthesize and express an individual interpretation of

the subtext of a poem using ideas and details from the poem (R, P/P)

• Determine the meanings of words and phrases in selected portions of a poem and analyze the representation of poetic meanings in words and movement (R)

• Apply dance and literary art to create an interpretation of the subtext of a poem (P/P)

In Your Group

• Select a group member to reread the entire poem

• Ask questions about the poem to get at the subtext of the poem, for example:

• How are the blessings in this poem similar to and different from the blessings of my life?• How do eyes darken with kindness?

• Identify meaningful words & images and work with a partner to create movement

Illustrate – Elaborate - Share

• Create a satisfying group sequence• Insert words and movement describing personal

blessings• Rehearse your piece:– Include reading of the poem section before, during, or

after your movement composition– Choose an accompaniment from the choices provided

• Perform – the performance is an answer to the Unit Question and a response to the broader Essential Question

Questions for ReflectionHow was this lesson similar to, or different from the way you learned about

poetry in high school? What assessable learning do you see in this activity?

Which of the three large processes—create, perform, respond—does this lesson incorporate?

What are the implications of this activity for content literacy in your classroom?

Is this activity applicable across arts and non-arts content areas? Example?

What questions do you have about this activity and why we did it this morning?

Questions for Today

Our Essential Question: introduced this summer: • How will we use collaboration and arts integration

with other content areas to design learning that is enduring and engaging for the student?

Unit question for this meeting:• How can collaborative teacher inquiry about

student learning inform good draft plans for, and delivery of, high-quality standards-based arts integration?

Meeting Goals

• Introduce school level collaborative professional inquiry for teachers

• Provide feedback and vicarious learning through sharing and responding to team plans

• Introduce learning goals

Project Products

By June 30, 2011 our participants will have demonstrated/produced/shown:– Well-designed units of instruction integrating the

arts with other content areas– Selected documentation of student learning

resulting from the units of instruction– Developed and shared accounts of personal and

collaborative inquiry and professional learning

Reflective Practice and Collaborative Professional Inquiry:

This is what we know about reflective practice:• Student learning is directly linked to staff learning, and engaging

in reflective practice increases staff learning. • As teacher reflective practice grows from individual teachers, to

partners, to small groups, the potential positive impact increases• Reflective practice means asking powerful questions of ourselves

and using classroom level information (observation, surveys, student work, interviews . . .) to pursue those questions then sharing what we’ve learned

(see handout for research bibliography)

Danielson on Reflective PracticeDistinguished• Accuracy: thoughtful and accurate assessment of lesson’s effectiveness and extent it achieved instructional

outcomes, citing many specific examples and weighing each• Use in future teaching: draws on extensive repertoire of skills to offer specific alternatives actions, and

evaluations probably success of different actions Proficient• Accuracy: accurate assessment of lesson effectiveness and success in achieving instructional outcomes and

cites general references to support judgments• Use in future teaching: can make some specific suggestions to be tried in future lesson delivery Basic• Accuracy: generally accurate impression of lesson effectiveness and level of achievement of outcomes• Use in future teaching: can make general suggestions to be tried in future lesson delivery Unsatisfactory• Accuracy: doesn’t know effectiveness, and misjudges success of lesson• Use in future teaching: can make no suggestions to improve future lesson delivery

Brainstorm Inquiry Questions About Collaborative Arts Integration

• With the needs of your students in mind, take a look at the questions about arts integration on the front of handout #10 and then at the questions that our facilitation team has listed in handout #11.

• Do you see one or more questions reflecting student needs at your school, or reflecting your own curiosity and interests? Highlight a handful of the questions that are compelling to you.

Develop a Collaborative Professional Inquiry Question

• Share the questions you’ve highlighted with your school team members.

• Discuss the commonalities and differences in your questions. Which seem most compelling; which involve the most students, teachers and classrooms?

• Select at least 1, and no more than 3 questions from those you are discussing and use handout #12 to check the feasibility of your questions.

DRAFT a Collaborative Professional Inquiry Question PLAN

• Now that you have one or more FEASIBLE questions for collaborative professional inquiry, draft a plan for at least one of these questions with your team members using handout #13

• Turn in your draft inquiry plan and we will return a scanned copy for your team’s use

Flip Camera – Lunch Assignment(use #14 flip camera instructions to help you learn how to operate the camera)

Lunchtime Instructions: (Goal is for each of us to have used the camera, not to have a complete interview in each case)

You’ve worked this morning on your collaborative professional inquiry question. With your team practice shooting video while taking turns leading a very brief interview by asking these questions:1. Please tell me the question you’ve developed, or a couple

of question candidates that are on your mind right now2. What student need helped you come to this (these)

question(s)?

School Groups for Plan SharingElementary Group:• Lake Pk Audubon• Osakis• WheatonHigh School/Secondary Group 1• Hawley• Moorhead• MorrisHigh School/Secondary Group 2• New York Mills• Perham• Rothsay

Use the #15 Team 2 Team response tool for presentation and discussion totaling 15 minutes per team (not per project – multiple projects from one school team will have to fit into the 15 minute time), so you need to prioritize.

Determine to end your presentation in time to receive feedback from your colleagues from other schools. We recommend 10 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for response.

We aim to begin meetings with your facilitators by 2pm latest. Keep track of the time we are allocating for your group and for your colleagues in the 8 other groups.

Learning Goals

Recent research on student achievement underscores the importance of having clear goals for teaching and providing clear and reliable formative assessment for learning

(Ed Trust 2005, Black and Wiliam 2004, Marzano 2003).

Checklist for Writing Classroom Learning Goals

____ 1. The classroom learning goal truly calls for learning and can be assessed. It is not an instructional strategy OR merely an activity for students to accomplish. It is a large enough portion of the benchmark to be worth assessing.

____ 2. The classroom learning goal sentence begins with the reference to the benchmark and ends with the reference to the curriculum if at all possible.

____ 3. The classroom learning goal type (knowledge, reasoning, skill, performance/product) aligns with the type of benchmark (knowledge, reasoning, skill, performance/product) on which it is based.

A Blessing – Benchmarks and Learning Goals

Dance 2008Synthesize and express an individual view of the meanings and functions of dance such as dance as art,

ritual, cultural expressions, entertainment, spectacle and its social contexts. Literary Art 2003Respond to literature using ideas and details from the text to support reactions and make literary

connections. Common Core Reading 2010Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and

connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and toneAnalyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is

emphasized or absent in each treatment

The student will:Synthesize and express an individual interpretation of the subtext of a poem using ideas and details from the

poem (P/P)Determine the meanings of words and phrases in selected portions of a poem and analyze the

representation of poetic meanings in words and movement (R)Apply dance and literary art to create an interpretation of the subtext of a poem (P/P)

The Tech Savvy PAINT Participant Practices These Skills

1. Create a page on your wiki with your name as the title and begin a journal for your inquiry process

2. Download the clip someone took of you at lunch from your camera to flipshare

3. Work in FlipShare using the scissor icon (editing) to edit your clip into something more succinct, or something silly

4. Use the "movie" button under create to make a shareable full-length movie or use the automatic movie making function

5. Use the "snapshot" button under create to make a still photo from your video segment

6. Create a computer folder to hold the movie you want to upload by using the "online" flipshare button

7. Drag one or your movies and a still photo onto the share window

8. Go to your wiki and upload the photo and movie from the computer folder you created with flipshare to hold files to upload

Thanks for the GREAT Day!!

Travel safely and we will see you very soon.

Your Perpich Arts Integration Project Facilitators