Year+2+-+Visual+Teaching+Artist+PD+in+The+Art+in+Action+Project

Visual Arts Training - 2011 Residency Teaching Artists

Skype Agenda (including detail notes of what we will cover) from 6-9pm tonight:


 * 1) What Do Constructivist Elements and Strategies Look Like in Visual Arts Integration?
 * 2) Open-ended questioning vs. directed instruction?ss
 * 3) How do we building on what students already know and are able to do?
 * 4) How do we facilitate an environment that allows students to construct their own learning vs. being told what they are supposed to do (step by step)
 * 5) How do we facilitate deep student materials explorations that include elements of discovery, inquiry, asking questions?
 * 6) What are some samples of dynamic, open-ended questions in residency work?
 * 7) “What do we already know?”
 * 8) “What do we notice here?”
 * 9) “What happens if (X)?”
 * 10) “What else do we want to know?”
 * 11) “Does anyone have a different idea?”
 * 12) “What are we missing?”
 * 13) “Do we all agree? What are other ideas?”
 * 14) “How does what we are doing relate to processes in math (or reading)?”
 * 15) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“What would you like to share that we haven’t explored together?”
 * 16) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Does anyone have another idea?”
 * 17) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“If we could imagine (X), how would we explore the next steps here?”
 * 18) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the difference between asking yes or no questions and questions with open-ended responses?
 * 19) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are some empty praise/superficial comments to avoid about visual arts products?
 * 20) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The pitfalls of “That’s nice,” “I like that” and “That is beautiful.”
 * 21) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shifting for individual goals versus seeking adult validation
 * 22) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Praising learning behaviors - What are some comments that might help guide student learning and help them define meaning for themselves?
 * 23) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I notice” statements: “I noticed that you used a brown shape here. Can you tell me about that?” “You seem very happy with your work here. Can you tell me more about what you did?”
 * 24) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I noticed that you used a lot of effort here. Do you want to tell me about your picture?”
 * 25) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I notice that the class worked very hard to create the messages we were making.”
 * 26) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Can you tell me about your picture? What do you feel you did well? Why? Are there areas that you would like to improve? How could you change this area you told me about? Where will you go next?”
 * 27) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“How did what you do in this section connect to the math concepts we talked about this morning?”
 * 28) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Can you share one idea about how you solved this challenge with the group?”
 * 29) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comments and questions should guide their thinking and learning while acknowledging their work.
 * 30) Resource: Notes on: Milbrandt M. et Al (2004). [|Teaching to Learn: A Constructivist Approach to Shared Responsibility. Art Education, 57 (5), 19-33.]
 * 31) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resource: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Constructivism: Actively Building Arts Education]
 * 32) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resource: My Experiences Incorporating Constructivist Teaching Strategies (PDF File - will send in email form)
 * 33) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The “Fly-In Superflasher Teaching Artist” Versus The “Teaching” Teaching Artist
 * 34) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Slick art products versus rich arts/mathematics/reading learning processes
 * 35) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Asking students about their discoveries of math, reading, art (modeling out loud)
 * 36) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sustainability & learning versus entertainment
 * 37) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">addressing teacher fear about arts processes ( <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Art & Fear] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">), helping them to make connections and do the work after the residency ends
 * 38) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">educational climate - teacher/school pressure
 * 39) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the importance of asking teachers questions
 * 40) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The dangers of appropriated/copied/limitative styles
 * 41) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">students finding their voice in visual arts work
 * 42) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What Does Co-Teaching Look Like?
 * 43) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The dance between arts/math/reading content, teachers, and student needs
 * 44) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stepping back and stepping forward
 * 45) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sharing Artful Teaching and Learning Handbook p 92 “Artist’s Habits of Mind” with teachers
 * 46) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sharing the elements of art and principles of design with teachers
 * 47) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What Will Your Residency Look Like?
 * 48) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where can we go for ideas for arts infusion resources and examples of schools who are doing this work? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://artinaction.wikispaces.com/Resources+-+Arts+Infusion__
 * 49) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will your work connect kids to what they need to know and do?
 * 50) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will students be involved in co-constructing knowledge from the ground up?
 * 51) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we reach out to the students/school and balance the need to support core team work?
 * 52) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will your residency teach the content (skills) directly?
 * 53) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will your residency teach the habits of learning they need to engage with the content (skills)?
 * 54) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will your residency incorporate technologies? Will you use any <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">__web2.0 tools__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in conjunction with your other work? Will it be a support? How so? Who will support you at the building level? Project level?
 * 55) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will students be involved? How might students be at the center of making decisions about how technologies are used? Are the technologies central to student learning or a support?
 * 56) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will you document your residency? What is the process? Who is involved and to what extent? What technologies will you need?
 * 57) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What other kinds of supports will you need? Have you identified and contacted those that you need for help? Documenting the residency processes
 * 58) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How will the culminating experience be documented?
 * 59) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who will be responsible for the documentation being uploaded to the wiki site? What is the plan for this?
 * 60) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What wiki resources are available for visual arts & assessment?
 * 61) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Visual Arts - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://artinaction.wikispaces.com/Visual+Art__
 * 62) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Arts Assessment - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">__http://artinaction.wikispaces.com/Assessment+-+Arts__
 * 63) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the forms and what do we need to do?
 * 64) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Review <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">__handbook forms__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (i.e. Residency Planning Guide, Rubrics, Checklist, Daily Teacher and Artist Collaborative Reflection, Available Resources for Teachers and Teaching Artists)
 * 65) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Complete forms online (Google Docs) in advance of the residency as part core team planning
 * 66) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Communicate with the arts specialist with weekly reporting - residency progress, details, change of dates, invitations to visit the residency sessions, questions, concerns, need for supports, etc.
 * 67) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Complete daily, in progress end of residency evaluations
 * 68) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the elements of the [|__Artful Teaching & Learning Handbook__] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">?
 * 69) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we make thinking and learning more explicit and public? (pp. 26-29)
 * 70) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the processes of art making and how do we make it more explicit and public?
 * 71) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why are big ideas and enduring understandings so important in learning?
 * 72) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why is the [|__Theory of Multiple Intelligences__] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">important to consider in visual arts residency work?
 * 73) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are inquiry questions and how do they relate to visual arts residency work?
 * 74) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are habits of mind and how do they relate to visual arts residency work?
 * 75) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How is what we are doing connecting to reading and arts standards in the plan?
 * 76) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the “Types of Arts Partnerships?” and how do these inform our residency work? (p. 45)
 * 77) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are habits of learning? How do these help students learn?
 * 78) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the other areas of the handbook that are helpful to understand?