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This workshop program focuses on a key element of arts integration: collaborative partnerships between teachers. In the program you’ll see teachers collaborating with fellow teachers, partnering with visiting artists, and drawing on community resources.
Two Dance Collaborations
Making Connections
Analyzing a Culture – The Story Continues
Can Frogs Dance?
Choose an area in your curriculum to think about. Make a list of typical types of student assessment you perform.
Consider the following questions as you watch the program. If you are part of a professional development group, consider stopping the video to discuss each question with your colleagues.
Print and distribute several of the sample performance tasks and criteria (below, in PDF format). In pairs, small groups or as a whole group, read the through a task and discuss the following question:
Print and distribute several of the sample performance tasks (below, in PDF format), folding them so that participants cannot see the criteria on the lower half of the page.
In pairs or small groups, read a task, and identify the criteria you think are appropriate for evaluating students’ understanding and accomplishment.
Performance Tasks for a Unit on Mythology: Daedalus & Icarus
Dance & Language Arts
Music & Language Arts
Theatre & Language Arts
Visual Art & Language Arts
Assessing Student Work With Project-Based Learning
http://homepage.mac.com/seilts/udl_at/resources/Assessment/Assessment%20and%20PBL.pdf
A list of roles that assessment plays in the classroom and what makes assessment “authentic”
Principles Of Good Practice For Assessing Student Learning
http://assessment.uconn.edu/docs/resources/AAHE_Principles_of_Good_Practice.pdf
Nine principles to guide the assessment of student learning
Arter, Judith A, & McTighe, Jay. Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom: Using Performance Criteria for Assessing and Improving Student Performance Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press, 2000. ISBN: 0761975756
Hayes Jacobs, Heidi. Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12. Alexandria , Va. : Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 1997. ISBN: 0871202867