This course is only for teachers who have applied and been selected to participate in the second year of the Arts Educator 2.0 project. K-12 teachers from across IU1 have been selected.
The "Arts Educator 2.0: Collaborative Inquiry Groups" course is part of a professional development grant (PDAE) 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. ArtsEducator 2.0 learners will be served through an ongoing differentiated staff-development program, that will offer learning opportunities that directly address each participant’s needs."
"ArtsEducator 2.0: Collaborative Inquiry Groups" (CIG) will be a three credit, 90 hour course. Specifically the course will focus on identifying and remediating participants´ professional learning needs and goals. This will center around 6 face-to-face meetings, as well as a collection of CIG group meetings that may be face-to face or electronic virtual meetings guided by a faculty facilitator. The facilitators will meet with each CIG group in an online setting afterward to discuss the visit and the participant´s reflections upontheir professional development needs. The participants will work as a group to craft and refine a group professional development plan (GPDP) with support from their facilitator. Once approved by the facilitators and course instructors, participants will implementtheir plan, locate appropriate learning materials, and then supplement their own professional knowledge. Participants´ successful implementation of the GPDP will be assessed by: review of the GPDP, through examination of documentary evidence ofcompletion 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 and student learning.
Participants may expect to spend approximately 40 hours in face-to-face meetings atIU1, 10 hours engaged in dialogue with their facilitator (both face toface and virtually) about all aspects of the GPDP, 10 hours in the creation of the GPDP, and then the remaining 30 hours locating learning resources, completing the learning as identified in the GPDP, 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.
