Description:
For Visual and Performing Arts teachers, or those looking to more robustly intertwine the arts into their curriculum: The Maine Department of Education invites you to be part of its upcoming professional development opportunity, Creative Assessment: Teacher as Curator. This session will explore the use of the arts as creative assessment strategies where participants explore artistic approaches to demonstrate academic learning and devise ways of gathering and presenting evidence of learning through documentation. Renowned facilitator and arts specialist, Dr. Lisa Donovan will provide an in-depth view of how the processes and products of the creative process can fuel a feedback loop for teaching and learning. We will wrestle with the question of “How do you tell the story of learning?” Participants will leave with a wide range of strategies for authentic, performance-based formative and summative processes for assessing learning in arts integrated work.
Participants will:
- Explore their role as a curator, intentionally selecting, organizing and presenting information, strategies for teaching and learning as well as presenting evidence of student understanding.
- Demonstrate how documentation and creative assessment strategies and processes utilizing the visual and performing arts to provide a holistic view of teaching and learning.
- Explore a variety of models that can be adapted and used by educators across content areas and grade levels.
- Engage in an experiential exploration of an arts integrated progression
- Learn and apply several creative assessment strategies to their own work
- Design documentation of their learning as models that can be used in their classrooms.
Participant Responsibilities:
- Attend two day-long professional development training, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Senator Inn, 284 Western Ave., Augusta, ME 04330.
- Dates for training are: Thursday, July 18th and Friday, July 19th.
- Arrive at the first workshop with an arts lesson, in writing, in order to apply the concepts addressed throughout the sessions practically.
Compensation:
Each participant will receive a stipend of $150.00 (maximum: 20 participants).
To Register:
Interested parties should register HERE by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10th. Please forward all questions to Visual and Performing Arts Specialist, Nate Menifield, at: nathaniel.j.menifield@maine.gov.