- The creation of a unit of study for use in instruction with students, and
- Through collaboration with a mentor, the creation and implementation of a personal professional development plan.
In this second course portion of the grant, participants will be focusing on strand 2, identifying areas of individual need, to be articulated through a "Personal Professional Development Plan (PPDP)," and then implementing that plan.
"Arts Educator 2.0: Personal Professional Development Plans" will be a two credit, 60 hour course. Specifically the course will focus on identifying and remediating individual participants´ professional learning needs and goals. This will center around two visits to the participant´s classroom by either the visual art or music mentor. The mentors will meet with each participant in an online setting afterwards to discuss the visit and the participant´s reflections upon their professional development needs. Each participant will then craft and refine a PPDP with support from their mentor. Once approved by the mentors and course instructors, participants will implement their plan, locating appropriate learning materials, and then supplementing their own professional knowledge. Participants´ successful implementation of the PPDP will be assessed by: examination of the PPDP, through examination of documentary evidence of completion of the described learning activities, and through the submission of a personal reflection and/or project which is tied to the new learning and identifies its impact upon professional practice.
Participants may expect to spend approximately 10 hours engaged in dialogue with their mentor (both face to face and virtually) about all aspects of the PPDP, 10 hours in the creation of the PPDP, and then the remaining 40 hours locating learning resources, completing the learning as identified in the PPDP, and in the creation of a reflection and/or project to demonstrate that learning. All Required pre-test, post-tests, planning, reflections, projects and course evaluations will be completed online at either the grant wikispace or the participant´s wikispace (created as part of the other CPE course, Arts Educator 2.0: Creating Standards-Based Arts Unit Plans)
