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Working With Visual and Performing Arts Power Standards 7-12. Break-Out Sessions October 23, 2009. Choosing the “Essential”. Quick-Write: “How do you decide what content to teach when you realize you can’t teach everything during the school year?” Share out. Group Inquiry.
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Working With Visual and Performing Arts Power Standards 7-12 Break-Out Sessions October 23, 2009
Choosing the “Essential” • Quick-Write: “How do you decide what content to teach when you realize you can’t teach everything during the school year?” • Share out
Group Inquiry • Choosing the Essential • Excerpt from Power Standards by Larry Ainsworth (2003) purple handout • Partner Discussion • Share out
Power Standards • Materials: • Power Standards for your grade level • Or, if standards are not powered, a Matrix Template (Leverage, Endurance, Readiness) – Example of Powered Arts Standards – LLC’s Unwrapping Content Standards and Unwrapping Standard Two-Column Template (use either one)
Process • Individually, • Read through the standards for your grade level. Highlight and/or mark questions/wonderings. • Look at the articulation of standards across grade levels. What do you notice? • Discuss with an elbow partner your responses and reflection of what you observed/wonder about/question. • Share out in large group
Unwrapping The StandardsWhat exactly am I being asked to teach? • Materials: • Blank Matrix (LCD projected) • Selected Standards • Bloom’s Taxonomy (a few per table) • Process: • Model/demo • Small group work • Sharing
Unwrapping Demo • Determine Standard • Type in benchmark • circle the verbs • underline the nouns
Sharing • Practice • Examine unwrapped standards • Begin to unwrap/chart remaining standards • Small groups report out • 2:30 pm - return to Library