Arts Educator 2.0 Creating Standards-Based Arts Unit Plans
The "Arts Educator 2.0: Creating Standards-Based Arts Unit Plans" course is part of a professional development grant from the US Department of Education (Arts Educator 2.0). The overarching goals of the grant are to, "create a community of learners through the use of new and emerging technologies. Arts Educator 2.0 learners will be served through an ongoing differentiated staff-development program, which will offer learning opportunities that directly address each participant’s individual needs." The grant has two main learning strands for participants:
- 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 first portion of the grant, participants will be focusing on strand 1, content and processes related to creating standards-based unit plans for implementation in their respective arts disciplines (art, music, dance, theater, media, etc.).
"Arts Educator 2.0: Creating Standards-Based Arts Unit Plans" will be a three credit, 90 hour course. Specifically the course will focus on identifying the components of an instructional unit plan tied to Pennsylvania´s standards aligned systems and the academic standards, learning the processes for creating such a unit, and ultimately crafting a fully alligned unit plan. Participants will be assessed using a multiple choice pre and post assessment. They will also complete a project: the standards-based arts unit of study.
"Arts Educator 2.0: Creating Standards-Based Arts Unit Plans" will be conducted in both a face-to-face and online, in a differentiated style in order to address the learning needs of the adult participants, and to allow for multiple modes for reflection. Participants will be encouraged to read and view presentations on topics including: rich and compelling tasks, formative and summative assessment, alignment to standards, accommodations, etc.. They will also be trained in a wide variety of web based tools for their unit creation, collaboration, and communication. Required assignments will include: participation in 5 onsite workshops at IU1, participation in online webinars, creation of an online workspace (Wikispaces), and ongoing dialogue with participants and course instructors.
Participants may expect to spend approximately 30 hours engaged in workshops at IU1, 14 hours in online webinars, and the remaining 16 hours crafting standards-based arts unit plans independently. Required pre-test, post-test, reflections, and course evaluations will be completed during the 5 workshops held face-to-face at IU1.
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