Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
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![]() | Workshop 8 Nurturing Independent Thinkers
![]() Activities and Discussion |
Criteria | Music Vocal music assessments | Dance Solo dance critique | Theatre Individual student evaluation | Visual Art Peer critiques and self-assessment |
Does the assessment approach: | ||||
Provide multiple sources of information for a detailed view of students' progress? | ||||
Occur on an ongoing basis for an accurate picture of student achievement? | ||||
Focus attention on what is important? | ||||
Deal with processes as much as final products? | ||||
Reveal what students can do and what they're trying to do? | ||||
Compare students' current work with their past performance? | ||||
Promote self-evaluation and self-monitoring? | ||||
Provide evidence of competence that can be used to get jobs, scholarships, and admission to college? | ||||
Enable teachers to reflect on and improve their practice? | ||||
Other important criteria: |
Think about an assessment approach using this blank worksheet. Which criteria does your assessment approach meet? How might you improve your assessment so that it better nurtures students' independent thinking?
The National Association of Educational Progress Arts Education Assessment Framework specifies that meaningful arts assessments should be built around three arts processes: creating, performing, and responding.
Assessment priorities often differ among the arts. In this activity, you will be asked to draw on the expertise of your colleagues from other arts disciplines to gain new perspective on assessing your students.
Draw the grid below on a whiteboard or chart paper. Chart the assessment practices you typically use in your discipline during each stage of the artistic process.
As a group, discuss the similarities and differences among the four art forms in assessing student progress at each stage.
Dance Typical assessment techniques used | Music Typical assessment techniques used | Theatre Typical assessment techniques used | Visual Art Typical assessment techniques used | |
Creating | | |||
Performing | ||||
Responding |
See how your group's notes compare to these general statements:
Looking at the chart, identify an area of assessment you would like to improve. Discuss with your colleagues how techniques from their practice might transfer to your arts discipline.
At the beginning of this workshop, you talked with your colleagues and wrote in your journal about how teaching is an art. Think about those ideas as you discuss these questions:
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