The search is on for teachers of the arts interested in teaching teachers!
We are so excited to share the news! The Maine Support Network has been awarded a grant by the MDOE to support educators throughout the state by creating and disseminating relevant and effective Open Educational Resources (OERs) that combine the Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) with content areas. This grant is specifically to create OER’s using a professional development co-teaching model and share these with other professionals in Maine.
As a result of this exciting news, we are looking for Maine educators who are leaders in VPA and other content areas, for short-term work on this Title II-D grant. We will be selecting 5 teams of teachers (one VPA and one specialist from another content area on each team) to create a co-taught OER lesson.
We are currently seeking team members who
- are certified and highly qualified in dance, music, theater, and visual arts, or another content area
- have expertise in using learning structures that engage all learners, and
- are experienced with online resources and the use of technology to promote learning.
Teachers will work collaboratively to create an OER that integrates VPA with a content area. Teams will pilot their OER, and then will share this OER with other teachers across the state as a model that will benefit Maine teachers and students in achieving Maine’s Learning Results. These OER will promote effective teaching strategies and allow teachers to have, at their finger tips, access to resources that promote effective learning strategies, and activities that lead to deep, connected, and rich learning opportunities.
The Maine Support Network (MSN) is renowned for its collaborative and supportive educational opportunities, as well as the use of Celebratory Learning in all of its events. MSN also provides a rich, collaborative, and supportive work environment for those who contract or work directly with the Network. We are collaborating with the Maine Arts Alliance for Arts Education. This is a statewide nonprofit that works to strengthen education in all of the arts for all Maine students.
If this sounds to you like an exciting opportunity, we look forward to hearing from you! For more details please feel free to contact coleen@mainesupportnetwork.org or interested applicants should fill out a brief bio that includes interest and experience online at http://tinyurl.com/oerarts
POSITION DESCRIPTION
GRANT TITLE: Title II-D: Enhancing Education Through Technology
POSITION: 5 teachers who are certified and highly qualified in dance, music, theater, and visual arts(VPA), and 5 teachers with other content area certifications. (5 collaborative teams will be chosen for a total of 10 members.)
PURPOSE: To develop professional development resources that are aligned to Maine’s Learning Results and that model effective integration of OER using Visual and Performing Arts and cross curricular content. This unit/OER resource will support the infusion of technology to promote student engagement, effective teaching strategies, and rich learning opportunities that assist teachers and students in achieving Maine’s Learning Results. Additionally, this grant will lead to dissemination of these OER throughout the state through professional development opportunities.
“Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone tPo use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.”
Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources.
GOALS:
- To enhance the awareness of OER.
- To create professional development resources that are aligned to MLR and that model effective integration of OER using Visual and Performing Arts and cross-curricular content.
- To support statewide OER lesson implementation through sustained professional development.
- To increase student achievement through the use of OER lessons.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TEAMS:
- Work collaboratively to establish criteria for effective and relevant OER.
- Develop a co-teaching model that allows effective integration of OER using Visual and Performing Arts and cross-curricular content.
- Develop effective OER to be disseminated.
- Create an assessment model that includes pre- and post-testing and documents student improvement based on the OER.
- Attend face-to-face and online meetings, as appropriate.
- Present the team’s model to a variety of teachers in a professional development setting.
- Ensure that all timelines and reporting requirements are met.
STRUCTURE OF THE WORK: The work may include up to 4 in-person work sessions, with online conferencing and shared presentations as needed. OER will be developed by each team on their time.
A total of 5 K-12 teams of teacher pairs (1 representative of VPA and 1 representative of another content area) will work on their own time over the next year, creating OER – Open Educational Resources – that support effective teacher strategies and promote student engagement and achievement of Maine’s Learning Results for each chosen content area. Each team will pilot and present their OER at a statewide conference using an agreed upon professional development model. They will also share their model at regional workshops.
ANTICIPATED TIMELINE: June 2010 through June 2011
PAYMENT TO TEAM MEMBERS: All expenses (travel, lodging, subs) are covered, in addition to a $2500.00 honorarium for each teacher.
Applications are due by the end of the business day on June 10, 2010.
Some of you remember Karen Montanaro from her performance at the statewide arts education The Arts Connect conference in October at Point Lookout. Or perhaps you watched her at the 2007 statewide arts conference at the Farnsworth Art Museum perform her soccer skit. She is a remarkable dancer and person who is magic to watch when she is working with children!
More specifically, my son showed a real excitement for the opportunity to perform. I rarely see that much enthusiasm in him anywhere except the basketball court. I would like to give him an opportunity to try some more dance.
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