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December 8, 2014
Nancy Salmon’s review
Nancy Salmon is a member of the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative’s Leadership Team. She is a dancer who has contributed enormously over the years to arts education in Maine. She attended the MAAI Mega MDIHS at Mount Desert Island High School on November 25,2014. Below you will find her review of the day. Thank you Nancy!
Nancy Salmon
Being a relative newbie on the MAAI Leadership Team, the Mega-Regional workshop at MDI High School was my first. I arrived early and friendly teachers directed me toward the “arts wing.” I knew immediately when I found it – Art EVERYWHERE! Student work on all the hall walls, three visual art studios, a beautiful and LARGE music room and a Dance Studio!
My assignment was to help register people – actually two MDI students took that on, and I was the “elder” helper handling any monetary transactions. Registration table was the perfect place for me to put names, faces, places, and teaching roles together.
I participated in two workshops even though I’m not a public school teacher. I totally enjoyed Jane Snider and Lisa Ingraham, both visual arts teachers, workshop Studio Habits of Mind: Using the “Hidden Curriculum” to Encourage Student Autonomy (or anyone’s autonomy). A couple books they use and introduced were Studio Thinking 2 and From Ordinary to Extraordinary. Jane’s and Lisa’s workshop was a perfect introduction to some very useable concepts and exercises regardless of art discipline. Participants included teachers of all the arts.
Stevie McGary
My second workshop, Stir-Crazy: A Movement Tool Kit for the Sedentary School Day was conducted by Stevie McGary, a new teaching artist on the Maine Arts Commission roster. Lots of activities in Stevie’s “tool kit” to use students’ fidgety energy in a productive, creative way. Many of the activities could be used right in the classroom.
Back in the dance studio after lunch, Stevie took us through a short dance class, demonstrating the kinds of things she does in her visiting artist/residency work. (The video of the day that Charlie Johnson created will be posted on the Maine Arts Ed blog in the near future).
For the afternoon session we divided into 2 groups, performing arts teachers (all music teachers in this instance) and visual arts teachers. I participated in Rob Westergard’s session. The session was an opportunity to share successes, challenges and helpful ideas regarding Teacher Effectiveness and Proficiency.
All in all, a success! I’m reminded of how totally impressed I am with the smarts, the passion, the commitment to the arts and STUDENTS that arts teachers are in spite of all the challenges that exist in our public school environment. Applause for all!
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December 4, 2014
Blog post written by Anthony Mullen
Recently I had an email exchange with Anthony Mullen, the 2009 National Teacher of the Year. Anthony teaches high school students at The ARCH School, an alternative education branch of Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Arts educators sense when someone really “gets” the arts. Mr. Mullen said in his email: “Art lies at the core of all learning because content knowledge without creativity and imagination is meaningless. Art transcends cognition because it inspires passion, and passion inspires all that we create. I have spoken to people who do not believe that art contributes to EVERYTHING we are and have been and will become, and most leave with a different point of view. Thank you for all that you do to inspire creativity!”
I took a few minutes to read a post Mr. Mullen had written recently for the Jose Luis Vilson blog. Mr. Vilson is a math educator, blogger, speaker, and activist in New York City. He has written and spoken about education, math, and race for a number of organizations. Periodically he has guest bloggers and Mr. Mullen’s post entitled Beautiful Bytes of Data. The beginning of the post is below and the entire post is located at http://thejosevilson.com/beautiful-bytes-data/. Please take a few minutes and click through so you can read the entire post and be sure and read the comments as well!
The young man wearing blue jeans and a red and white polo shirt is anxious. He frequently looks at his watch, shaking his head while staring at the train tracks. He is restless and angry and impatient because the train is late again. He bends over and grabs a handful of gravel, throwing the shattered stone against a pair of cold steel rails. A few commuters standing on the train platform watch, quietly wondering why the young man is so upset. It is, after all, a bright and sunny afternoon. A solitary businessman wearing a Brooks Brothers suit is too busy texting to notice anything.
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December 2, 2014
MAAI Mega MDIHS
The feedback is clear – the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative’s Mega – regional workshop at MDI High School last week was a success! Participants learned new information and the work that is done each day in classrooms across Maine was reinforced. Once again the highlight was the opportunity for Arts educators to come together for a professional development opportunity that was designed specifically for them.
A HUGE THANK YOU to Charlie Johnson and his colleagues at MDI High School for hosting, to the MAAI Teacher Leaders who provided outstanding workshops: Janie Snider, Lisa Ingraham, Shannon Westphall, Frances Kellogg, Sue Barre, Charlie Johnson, to Teaching Artist Stevie McGary for the workshop and artists showcase, and to Catherine Ring, Rob Westerberg, and Nancy Salmon who provided technical assistance and leadership for the day!
I LOVE reading the feedback and how the day influenced participants thinking and teaching. Don’t take my word for it, below is what some of the participants said. I will post more in the near future along with a video that Charlie created to document the day.
- I can’t believe how quickly this day flew by! As always, I wish that we had more time like this and opportunities to meet… I love these MAAI conferences, I always leave feeling more grounded and ready to take action
- I like the Habits of Mind posters and the idea of the check list to keep throughout a project to assess each habit… These were really solid examples of what can be done.
- I have already been implementing a few of these processes into my curriculum. Now, I just need to communicate this to my students in a clearer, more consistent manner.
- Our district is focusing on Habits of Mind. I didn’t realize Studio Habits of Mind are different, but similar. Definitely a lot of useful information.
- On the arts assessment website http://www.maineartsassessment.com there is a proficiency toolbox that I will be able to revamp my assessments at my school.
I LEARNED…
- how to authentically apply the learning results to assessment
- how to create a simple rubric for standards is an easy way to keep track of what 1, 2, 3, 4 etc actually means
- simple, quick class assessments concrete examples of student growth — A+
- about how to apply assessments to the art classroom and how to make the language usable for students of all ages
- recording with the ipad for quick assessment
- strategies for holding myself and my students accountable for what they are learning and creating in the art room
- engage and persist can be a way to think about behavior in a positive way
- about some fun and creative resources to help with assessing my students
- how students demonstrate their learning through a hands-on project (pinhole cameras)
- even a quick 60-second movement can benefit across the school day
- how to clearly describe different standards and allow students to have an important part in the grading process
- some quick and effective ways to assess students on the fly in the elementary music setting, and how to score and record them.
- all about the site: http://www.maineartsassessment.com/, I LOVE IT. Need to spend loads of time there.
The above list includes just some of the feedback from November 25. If this is information that you’d like to learn more about please be sure and attend another Mega-regional workshop that is planned for this school year. The dates and locations are below and the link to the registration is http://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/MAAI-Mega-Regionals-2014-2015#
- Friday, March 6, 2015 Aroostook county (to be announced)
- Friday, March 13, 2015 Oxford Hills Middle School, South Campus
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 UMaine, Orono
- Friday, April 3 University of Southern Maine, Portland
5.5 contact hours are being provided for all-day participation at each Mega
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November 3, 2014
One-day conference, December 3, 2014
Southern Maine Partnership Presents
TEACHER EVALUATION, STUDENT GROWTH, AND TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS:
FINDING A PLACE AT THE ASSESSMENT TABLE
Keynote by Rick Stiggins
Rick Stiggins, author of recent books Defensible Teacher Evaluation: Student Growth Through Classroom Assessment and Revolutionize Assessment: Empower Students, Inspire Learning will keynote the event. Rick founded Assessment Training Institute to provide professional development in assessment literacy for school leaders and teachers. He has authored several books and a host of papers on the subject.
Who Should Attend?
The one-day conference is designed for: School and District leaders, teachers, Effective Educator Steering Committee members, School Board members, and all interested in the implementation of Education Policy.
Price: $75 registration fee includes coffee, snacks, and lunch, USM, Portland campus
Registration Process: Complete the online registration at this link: http://bit.ly/1xhzG35. Limited space available.
3 Concurrent Sessions
- Various districts will present their Educator Effectiveness Plans, including the student growth component
- DOE Effective Educator Coordinator, Mary Paine
- Student Learning Outcome (SLO) examples and processes
- Assessment Literacy for Leaders and Practitioners
- Teacher leaders from the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative will taker their place at the table and share teacher evaluation work.
- The Center for Research on STEM Education (RISE) from UMaine Orono will share their work with pre-post tests.
- USM graduate students and professors pilot student growth models
For more information please contact Anita Stewart at anita.stewart@maine.edu.
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October 30, 2014
University of Southern Maine, Portland, Mega-regional workshop, Friday, April 3, 2015
The Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAAI) is once again offering Mega-regional workshops in five locations across the state of Maine during the 2014-15 school year. The workshops are being facilitated by the MAAI Teacher Leaders, different workshops scheduled for each location. Yes, you can register for more than one! 5.5 contact hours are being provided for all-day participation.
The five Mega dates and locations for the 2014-15 school year
- Friday, March 6, 2015 Aroostook county
Registration is also open for Mega Mount Desert Island High School, Mega Oxford Hills, South Campus, and Mega UMaine, Orono. It will be available for Aroostook county in the very near future. MAAI is a program of the Maine Arts Commission.
The information for Mega USM, Portland is located at http://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/MAAI-Mega-Regionals-USM-2015#USM.
Once you read through the details, you can determine which workshop you’d like to attend for Session I and Session II. To complete your registration please click on this link http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07ea1ghdq4i1s4snna/a014xi1tzgnbz/questions.
You can pay the $25 registration fee using PayPal or you can pay by sending a check made out to Maine Art Education Association and mail it to Maine Arts Commission, c/o Argy Nestor, 193 State Street, 25SHS, Augusta, 04333. You will find all of the information and details that you need when you register at the link above. Please contact me if you have any questions at argy.nestor@maine.gov.
Overall Workshop Schedule
- 8:15 a.m. Registration begins
- 8:45 a.m. Opening Session and Morning Workshops
- 9:10 – 10:20 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session I
- 10:20 – 10:30 a.m. Break
- 10:30 – 11:40 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session II
- 11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch, participants on their own
- 12:30 – 12:45 p.m. Artist Showcase
- 12:45 – 2:45 p.m. Session III Large group by Arts Discipline
- 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Closing Session
The workshop titles and descriptions for the Mega UMaine, Orono are included below.
Session I
The Studio Habits of Mind: Using the “Hidden Curriculum” to Encourage Student Autonomy
Join us in our exploration of assessment and proficiency using the Studio Habits of Mind. This workshop will present a practical look at how we came to understand and use the constructs of Studio Thinking in our K-4 and K-8 classrooms to promote independent, self-directed learning. You will gain hands-on knowledge of these habits and leave with strategies you can use in your own classroom. Grades K-8 (Easily adapted for grades 9-12.)
Jane Snider Hancock Grammar School Visual Arts
Lisa Ingraham Madison Elementary School Visual Arts
The Recipe: Ingredients in a Proficiency-Based Curriculum
The thought of creating a proficiency-based curriculum from scratch can be daunting. When we try cooking something new for the first time, we seek a recipe to follow, and over time we adjust, improvise, substitute, and personalize the ingredients to make the recipe our own. We would like to share our recipe with you, it may not be exactly your taste, but we have ingredients and tools to share to help you get started. Grades 9-12 (Easily adapted for all grades.)
Michaela DiGianvittorio and Sarah Gould Gray-New Gloucester High School Visual Arts
Unpacking the Standards with your BFF (Best Foot Forward)
Looking for meaningful conversations around assessment in the elementary music classroom? So often music teachers feel as if they are working in isolation. Come see how Teacher Leaders Cynthia Keating and Kate Smith worked together to unpack the standards to identify their essential learnings. Tips for how to report essential learnings to parents will be shared. Grades PK-5
Cynthia Keating Village Elementary School Music
Kate Smith Central Elementary School Music
The Foolish Man Builds his House Upon the Sand: Laying a Firm Foundation for the Arts (and life) in Early Childhood
A workshop for Early Childhood Educators, Elementary Arts Specialists, and Elementary Administrators. Come join the fun as we explore how and why arts play is essential to every young child’s ability to learn how to learn! Grades PK-2 (all Arts disciplines)
Judy Fricke Main Street Music Studios Music
Writing What We Do: A Guide to Standards-Based Curriculum Mapping & Unit Design
Essential what? Enduring Understandings? Why is it important to write down what I do in my classroom? Many districts across the state are focused on Curriculum Mapping and Unit Design using a variety of systems for tracking and organizing curriculum, units, and assessments. This session will focus on developing skills in navigating the Understanding by Design model of unit and curriculum design. Participants will learn how to organize their curriculum, develop essential questions and enduring understandings, and determine assessment types based on what they are already teaching in their arts classrooms. Examples and resources will be provided. Grades PK-12 (all Arts disciplines)
Brian McPherson Woodside Elementary School Vistual Arts
Jake Sturtevant Bonny Eagle High School Music
Session II
Using Digital Process Folios as a Journaling Approach to Self Assessment
Have you ever wondered how to digitally document students growth and understanding? Using technology, students document their learning experiences in the art room through a process-folio. For many of us, learning is about the process not the end result – learn how reflective writing and self assessments can guide students through a greater understanding of their work. Grades 6-8 (Easily adaptable for grades 9-12.)
Melanie Crowe Marshwood Middle School Visual Arts
Hatching A Songbird: Teaching and Assessing Singing Skills at the Primary Level
Focusing on the Kindergarten year, this workshop will offer methodical strategies for teaching young children to sing. Included will be ideas for formative assessment, including student self assessment. Grades K-2
Patti Gordan Raymond Elementary School Music
Moving Towards Your Goals: Using Technology for Self-Assessment in a Performing Arts Classroom
This workshop will demonstrate how to have students successfully self-assess their work in your performing arts classroom using their own devices. Using an existing high school dance lesson, participants will learn how to have their own students measure and analyze their work using applications such as Twitter, Nearpod, eBackpack, and Youtube. Grades 9-12 (all Arts disciplines)
Emma Campbell Thornton Academy Dance
Dancing With the Standards: How to Incorporate Standards-Based Dance and Movement Activities in Classroom Learning and Assessment
Are you an arts teacher who would like to incorporate more movement in your classroom, but may feel that you lack confidence or familiarity with dance movement? This experiential workshop will walk you through a powerful yet simple creative movement exploration and dance making process that are standards-based and well suited to integrate with any content area. You will learn simple movement tools and a dance making activity that you can implement – no dance background needed – to help your students explore lesson content and engage in creative problem solving together. Grades PK-12 (all Arts disciplines)
John Morris Dance
The How and Why of Digital Portfolios
This workshop is focused on using Google Drive to create a digital portfolio as a means to show evidence of proficiency, allow for a method of feedback on student work and as a way to organize and maintain student work. This workshop can be used by all VPA teachers. Grades 6-12 (all Arts disciplines)
Jeff Orth Richmond Middle/High School Visual Arts
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October 29, 2014
University of Maine, Orono, Mega-regional workshop, Thursday, April 2, 2015
The Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAAI) is once again offering Mega-regional workshops in five locations across the state of Maine during the 2014-15 school year. The workshops are being facilitated by the MAAI Teacher Leaders, different workshops scheduled for each location. Yes, you can register for more than one!
The five Mega dates and locations for the 2014-15 school year
- Tuesday, November 25 Mount Desert Island High School
- Friday, March 6 Aroostook county
- Friday, March 13 Oxford Hills Middle School, South Campus
- Thursday, April 2 UMaine, Orono
- Friday, April 3 University of Southern Maine, Portland
Registration is also open for Mega Mount Desert Island High School and Mega Oxford Hills, South Campus. It will be available for USM, tomorrow and for Aroostook in the very near future. MAAI is a program of the Maine Arts Commission.
The information for Mega UMaine, Orono is located at http://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/MAAI-Mega-Regionals-UMaine-Orono.
Once you read through the details, you can determine which workshop you’d like to attend for Session I and Session II. To complete your registration please click on this link http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07ea1grfwqi1s5vizl/a014xi1tyq8jt/questions.
You can pay the $25 registration fee using PayPal or you can pay by sending a check made out to Maine Art Education Association and mail it to Maine Arts Commission, c/o Argy Nestor, 193 State Street, 25SHS, Augusta, 04333. You will find all of the information and details that you need when you register at the link above. Please contact me if you have any questions at argy.nestor@maine.gov.
Overall Workshop Schedule
- 8:15 a.m. Registration begins
- 8:45 a.m. Opening Session and Morning Workshops
- 9:10 – 10:20 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session I
- 10:20 – 10:30 a.m. Break
- 10:30 – 11:40 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session II
- 11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch, participants on their own
- 12:30 – 12:45 p.m. Artist Showcase
- 12:45 – 2:45 p.m. Session III Large group by Arts Discipline
- 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Closing Session
The workshop titles and descriptions for the Mega UMaine, Orono are included below.
Session I
Finding the Hidden Treasure in Art with Student Self Assessment
Learn how setting criteria with students sets the stage for formative assessment. Participants will create a small art work and practice the use of exemplars, setting criteria, and use of assessments to inform instruction. Come explore the benefits that come from student self assessments. Grades 5-12
Jennie Driscoll Brunswick High School Visual Arts
Efficient and Effective Assessment in the Elementary Music Classroom
When you see 200 or more students each week, assessing everyone is challenging. The lack of time seems insurmountable! At this collaborative session, we will discuss ways to make assessments efficient for both class time and your time, while still keeping them effective for teaching and learning. The presentation is directed toward elementary classroom music, but all are welcome to attend and give input. Grades K-5
Frances Kellogg Ellsworth Elementary Middle School Music
Multiple Pathways: Helping Students Achieve Proficiency in ELA and Social Studies through Performing Arts Class!
With the new proficiency based learning law, students must be allowed a variety of ways to demonstrate proficiency. This workshop will examine cross disciplinary units that assess, not only drama standards, but ELA and social studies standards as well. Specifically, we will look at performance assessments that evaluate ELA and social studies standards and can be demonstrated in the performing arts classroom but count towards a students ELA and social studies requirements. Grades 7-12
Beth Lambert Carrabec High School Performing Arts
Moving Towards Your Goals: Using Technology for Self-Assessment in a Performing Arts Classroom
This workshop will demonstrate how to have students successfully self-assess their work in your performing arts classroom using their own devices. Using an existing high school dance lesson, participants will learn how to have their own students measure and analyze their work using applications such as Twitter, Nearpod, eBackpack, and Youtube. Grades 9-12 (all Arts disciplines)
Emma Campbell Thornton Academy Dance
The Foolish Man Builds his House Upon the Sand: Laying a Firm Foundation for the Arts (and life) in Early Childhood
A workshop for Early Childhood Educators, Elementary Arts Specialists, and Elementary Administrators. Come join the fun as we explore how and why arts play is essential to every young child’s ability to learn how to learn! Grades PK-2 (all Arts disciplines)
Judy Fricke Main Street Music Studios Music
Session II
My Choice-Based Art Class, Nurturing Proficiency through Voice, Choice and Reflective Teaching
What are the benefits of a choice-based art room? How can assessments be used to foster creative growth, skill development & proficiency? In this workshop teachers will have these questions answered as well as see how a choice – based art class can teach studio behavior and allow for art creation and teacher feedback that is individualized and authentic to the learners’ experience. Grades K-12
Theresa Cerceo Dr. Levesque Elementary, Wisdom Middle/High School Visual Arts
Proficiency-Based Education in Visual Art
This workshop will provide an overview of what Proficiency-Based Education looks like in a middle school art program. Unpacking standards, creating rubrics, understanding meeting proficiency, formative vs summative, and assessment will all be part of this workshop. Grades 6-8
Gloria Hewett Mount View Middle School Visual Arts
Stir-Crazy: A Movement Tool Kit for the Sedentary Classroom
Kids not sitting still in class? Unable to focus? This session is for all teachers wanting to add some movement activities and games into the classroom without sacrificing important academic time. All games can be adapted to fit all subject areas. Grades PK-12 (all Arts disciplines)
Stephanie McGary Dance
Gold, Silver or Bronze? A Rubric fit for the Olympics!
This workshop is focused on using Google Drive to create a digital portfolio as a means to show evidence of proficiency, allow for a method of feedback on student work and as a way to organize and maintain student work. This workshop can be used by all VPA teachers. Grades 4-8
Pam Kinsey Easton Schools Music
Rappin’ Differentiated Instruction and Implementing Standards Based Grading
Formative assessments are instrumental in giving teachers the tools they need to discover where each of their students are in the learning process. Participants will learn how to use this data to differentiate instruction for content, process and product to meet the needs of all learners. I will also share how Nokomis High School is beginning to implement standards-based grading. Grades 7-12
Lisa Neal Nokomis Regional High School Performing Arts
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October 27, 2014
Oxford Hills Middle School, South campus Mega-regional workshop, Friday, March 13, 2015
The Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAAI) is once again offering Mega-regional workshops in five locations across the state of Maine during the 2014-15 school year. The workshops are being facilitated by the MAAI Teacher Leaders, different workshops scheduled for each location.
The five Mega dates and locations for the 2014-15 school year
- Tuesday, November 25 Mount Desert Island High School
- Friday, March 6 Aroostook county
- Friday, March 13 Oxford Hills Middle School South Campus
- Thursday, April 2 UMaine, Orono
- Friday, April 3 University of Southern Maine, Portland
Registration is also open for Mega Mount Desert Island High School. It will be available for the other three locations in the near future. MAAI is a program of the Maine Arts Commission.
The information for Oxford Hills Mega is located at https://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/MAAI-Mega-Regionals-Oxford-Hills.
Once you read through the details, you can determine which workshop you’d like to attend for Session I and Session II. To complete your registration please click on this link http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07ea0miwpwi1kow719/a014qi1r1gpoc/questions.
You can pay the $25 registration fee using PayPal or you can pay by sending a check made out to Maine Art Education Association and mail it to Maine Arts Commission, c/o Argy Nestor, 193 State Street, 25SHS, Augusta, 04333. You will find all of the information and details that you need when you register at the link above. Please contact me if you have any questions at argy.nestor@maine.gov.
Overall Workshop Schedule
- 8:15 a.m. Registration begins
- 8:45 a.m. Opening Session and Morning Workshops
- 9:10 – 10:20 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session I
- 10:20 – 10:30 a.m. Break
- 10:30 – 11:40 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session II
- 11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch, participants on their own
- 12:30 – 12:45 p.m. Artist Showcase
- 12:45 – 2:45 p.m. Session III Large group by Arts Discipline
- 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Closing Session
The workshop titles and descriptions for the Mega Oxford Hills Middle School, south campus are included below.
Session I
Transform Your Fear of the Bear: Examining Proficiency-Based Arts Diploma Systems
Join us for a modified roundtable opportunity to share and glean developed strategies, reflections, benefits and challenges on this student centered journey. Beginners to full scale implementors are encouraged to participate. Please bring questions and/or artifacts to share: assessments and systems for documentation and communicating proficiency, as well as business cards/info strips to help with networking and the digital sharing of resources. Grades PK-12
Suzanne Goulet Waterville Senior High School Visual Arts
The Recipe: Ingredients in a Proficiency-Based Curriculum
The thought of creating a proficiency-based curriculum from scratch can be daunting. When we try cooking something new for the first time, we seek a recipe to follow, and over time we adjust, improvise, substitute, and personalize the ingredients to make the recipe our own. We would like to share our recipe with you, it may not be exactly your taste, but we have ingredients and tools to share to help you get started. Grades 9-12 (Easily adapted for all grades.)
Michaela DiGianvittorio and Sarah Gould Gray-New Gloucester High School Visual Arts
Dancing With the Standards: How to Incorporate Standards-Based Dance and Movement Activities in Classroom Learning and Assessment
Are you an arts teacher who would like to incorporate more movement in your classroom, but may feel that you lack confidence or familiarity with dance movement? This experiential workshop will walk you through a powerful yet simple creative movement exploration and dance making process that are standards-based and well suited to integrate with any content area. You will learn simple movement tools and a dance making activity that you can implement – no dance background needed – to help your students explore lesson content and engage in creative problem solving together. Grades PK-5 (all Arts disciplines)
John Morris Dance
Let the Maine Learning Results guide your Ensemble Curriculum
The Maine Learning Results are still the state wide Visual and Performing Arts Standards. Take a closer look at your ensemble and discover how you are using the MLRs each and every day. Learn new ways to integrate all of the MLRs. This workshop is applicable for any age ensemble elementary through high school. Grades 5-12
Sue Barre Waterville Junior and Senior High Schools Music
Session II
The Choir Gets It: A Meaningful Approach to Arts Advocacy
Have you been exposed to a wealth of information about why the arts are important in schools and why, as arts educators, we should advocate for our programs? If you answered “yes,” consider attending this reflective workshop that offers an opportunity to think about arts advocacy on a personal level. Listen to the arts advocacy journey of the presenter, while also having ample opportunities to share ideas with colleagues and develop your own attainable arts advocacy goal. PK-12 (all Arts disciplines)
Samantha Davis Molly Ockett Middle School Visual Arts
The Foolish Man Builds his House Upon the Sand: Laying a Firm Foundation for the Arts (and life) in Early Childhood
A workshop for Early Childhood Educators, Elementary Arts Specialists, and Elementary Administrators. Come join the fun as we explore how and why arts play is essential to every young child’s ability to learn how to learn! Grades PK-2 (all Arts disciplines)
Judy Fricke Main Street Music Studios Music
Graphic Notation: “Do You See What I Hear?”
Participants will learn a simple music graphing process that can serve as an effective tool for teaching repetition & contrast, form, and note reading skills to visual learners. In addition, participants will match audio examples with their corresponding music graphs, as well as have the opportunity to play simple melodies on Orff instruments by reading the melodic graphic notation. Those in attendance will discover there is an answer to, “Do You See What I Hear?” for all the learners in their music classes. Grades K-8
Linda McVety and Jenni Null Songo Locks Elementary School Music
The How and Why of Digitial Portfolios
This workshop is focused on using Google Drive to create a digital portfolio as a means to show evidence of proficiency, allow for a method of feedback on student work and as a way to organize and maintain student work. This workshop can be used by all VPA teachers. Grades 6-12 (all Arts disciplines)
Jeff Orth Richmond Middle/High School Visual Arts
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October 21, 2014
Mount Desert Island High School Mega-regional workshop, Tuesday, November 25
The Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAAI) is once again offering Mega-regional workshops in five locations across the state of Maine during the 2014-15 school year. The workshops are being facilitated by the MAAI Teacher Leaders with each location scheduled with different workshops.
The five Mega dates and locations for the 2014-15 school year
- Tuesday, November 25 Mount Desert Island High School
- Friday, March 6 Aroostook county
- Friday, March 13 Oxford Hills Middle School South Campus
- Thursday, April 2 UMaine, Orono
- Friday, April 3 University of Southern Maine, Portland
The information for MDIHS Mega is located at http://mainearts.maine.gov/Pages/Education/MAAI-Mega-Regionals-2014-2015#.
Once you read through the details, you can determine which workshop you’d like to attend for Session I and Session II. Click on this link http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e9vs7ccfi0fmlna1/start to complete the registration.
You can pay the $25 registration fee using PayPal or you can pay by sending a check made out to Maine Art Education Association and mail it to Maine Arts Commission, c/o Argy Nestor, 193 State Street, 25SHS, Augusta, 04333. You will find all of the information and details that you need when you register at the link above. Please contact me if you have any questions at argy.nestor@maine.gov.
Overall Workshop Schedule
- 8:15 a.m. Registration begins
- 8:45 a.m. Opening Session and Morning Workshops
- 9:10 – 10:20 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session I
- 10:20 – 10:30 a.m. Break
- 10:30 – 11:40 a.m. Breakout Workshop Session II
- 11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch, participants on their own
- 12:30 – 12:45 p.m. Artist Showcase
- 12:45 – 2:45 p.m. Session III Large group by Arts Discipline
- 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Closing Session
The workshop titles and descriptions for the MDIHS Mega are included below.
Session I
The Studio Habits of Mind: Using the “Hidden Curriculum” to Encourage Student Autonomy
Join us in our exploration of assessment and proficiency using the Studio Habits of Mind. This workshop will present a practical look at how we came to understand and use the constructs of Studio Thinking in our K-4 and K-8 classrooms to promote independent, self-directed learning. You will gain hands-on knowledge of these habits and leave with strategies you can use in your own classroom. Grades K-8 (Easily adapted for grades 9-12.)
Jane Snider Hancock Grammar School Visual Arts
Lisa Ingraham Madison Elementary School Visual Arts
Making Evidence of Learning from a Sequence of Artworks
This hands-on workshop will explore a simple photographic darkroom technique to produce artworks to use as examples of proficiency for several of the National Core Arts Standards along with links to Maine’s present P.E.I.’s. Student work will also be presented as examples/exemplars for levels of proficiency. Grades 6-12
Charlie Johnson Mount Desert Island High School Visual Arts
Efficient and Effective Assessment in the Elementary Music Classroom
When you see 200 or more students each week, assessing everyone is challenging. The lack of time seems insurmountable! At this collaborative session, we will discuss ways to make assessments efficient for both class time and your time, while still keeping them effective for teaching and learning. The presentation is directed toward elementary classroom music, but all are welcome to attend and give input. Grades K-5
Frances Kellogg Ellsworth Elementary Middle School Music
Let the Maine Learning Results guide your Ensemble Curriculum
The Maine Learning Results are still the state wide Visual and Performing Arts Standards. Take a closer look at your ensemble and discover how you are using the MLRs each and every day. Learn new ways to integrate all of the MLRs. This workshop is applicable for any age ensemble elementary through high school. Grades 5-8
Sue Barre Waterville Junior and Senior High Schools Music
Session II
Standards-Based Grading and Assessing for Proficiency
This workshop is about how to use standards and create learning targets in the visual art classroom. We will be focusing on using standards in every day art lessons, assessing for proficiency and showing growth through the use of portfolios. Grades 6-12
Shannon Westphal Ellsworth High School Visual Art
It’s Elementary, My Dear!
Come find out ways you can advocate for your elementary school arts program. In this workshop, we will share ideas and strategies to get what you need for your visual art or music classroom and simultaneously take arts education to a whole new level. Let’s put all those wonderful resources and tried and true strategies to work for us! Grades PK-8
Catherine Ring New England Institute for Teacher Education Visual Art
Stir-Crazy: A Movement Tool Kit for the Sedentary Classroom
Kids not sitting still in class? Unable to focus? This session is for all teachers wanting to add some movement activities and games into the classroom without sacrificing important academic time. All games can be adapted to fit all subject areas. Grades PK-12 All Teachers
Stephanie McGary Dance
Resources, Resources and MORE Resources for Music Educators
This session will identify helpful, meaningful resources for every need under the sun! Attendees will inform the conversation, bringing their own unique needs to the table. The take-away will be for every music teacher to leave with a bucketful of assistance towards implementing standards, proficiency and assessment practices into their own classrooms. Grades PK-12
Rob Westerberg York High School Music
Session III
The Arts and Proficiency: What, Why and How?
The afternoon session will be focused around group discussions utilizing key questions on how proficiency is being implemented across the state of Maine in our own arts classrooms. Participants will leave with concrete ideas and/or plans to facilitate their own actions. These may lead to breakout sessions to deeper discussions and common concerns. This session will be separated between visual and performing arts teachers.
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October 20, 2014
Teacher Leaders as leaders
Responding to the needs and voices of teachers in the field, the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative (MAA) has begun a series of steps to help all PK-12 Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Art teachers develop their own quality work as Maine implements the new proficiency law, Maine Statute 4722-A-Proficiency Based Diploma Standards, that requires all students to display “proficiency” in all subject areas.
The first of these steps is designating past and current MAAI Teacher Leaders to serve as live “go-to” people for advice, talking through problems and ideas and providing support. Between the Leadership Team and Teacher Leaders, there are over three dozen people who have volunteered to be these live resources. Go to maineartsassessment.com, click on either of those two pages (Leadership Team and/or Teacher Leaders) under the dropdown, “About MAAI: who we are”. You will find contact information in red for those who are willing to work with you, as well as what grade levels and subject areas they teach, where they teach it, and a list of topics they have had experience with.
As the only grassroots arts assessment entity in the United States, it remains a goal of MAAI to be here in a practical way for teachers in the field, “removing us from the islands” for once and for all. Please take advantage of the work that has already gone on in recent years by respected colleagues throughout Maine, and contact them often as you progress through your proficiency work!
If you have questions or ideas for other needs that you have during the transition, please contact MAAI Leadership Team member Rob Westerberg at mllama4@maine.rr.com or Argy Nestor at argy.nestor@maine.gov. MAAI is a program of the Maine Arts Commission with many partners including MAEA, MMEA, New England Institute for Teacher Education, USM, MLTI, MDOE, and MAAE.
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October 16, 2014
Opportunity for professional development from National Art Education Association
Implementing the New Visual Arts Standards: A Resource to Support Instruction Aligned with State Standards
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 | 7pm ET
Complimentary to NAEA members; $49/non-members
Presenters: Dennis Inhulsen, NAEA President and Chair of the Visual Arts Writing Team; Scott Russell, Elementary Art Teacher and Writing Team Member; Cory Wilkerson, Communications Chair, National Coalition of Core Arts Standards
The new standards provide opportunities for art educators to look at instruction and student growth through an aspirational lens. Learn how art educators are connecting the new voluntary standards with their own state and district standards. See how the new standards framework can be aligned with state standards to support student learning by embedding Enduring Understandings for instruction.
To register, please click here.
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