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 * Arts Educator 2.0: Creating [|Standards-Based] Arts Unit Plans**

"Arts Educator 2.0: Creating Standards-Based Arts Unit Plans" will be a three CPE credit, 90 hour course. Specifically the course will focus on identifying the components of an instructional unit plan tied to Pennsylvania's standards aligned systems and the academic standards, learning the processes for creating such a unit, and ultimately crafting a fully aligned unit plan. Participants will be assessed using a multiple choice pre and post assessment. They will also complete a project: the standards-based arts unit of study. "Arts Educator 2.0: Creating Standards-Based Arts Unit Plans" will be conducted in both a face-to-face and online, in a differentiated style in order to address the learning needs of the adult participants, and to allow for multiple modes for reflection. Participants will be encouraged to read and view presentations on topics including: rich and compelling tasks, formative and summative assessment, alignment to standards, accommodations, etc.. They will also be trained in a wide variety of web based tools for their unit creation, collaboration, and communication. Required assignments will include: participation in 5 onsite workshops at IU1, participation in online webinars, creation of an online workspace (Wikispaces), and ongoing dialogue with participants and course instructors.

Participants may expect to spend approximately 30 hours engaged in workshops at IU1, 14 hours in online webinars, and the remaining 16 hours crafting standards-based arts unit plans independently. Required pre-test, post-test, reflections, and course evaluations will be completed during the 5 workshops held face-to-face at IU1.

Follow this link to view [|Pennsylvania's Standards for the Arts & Humanities].

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Unit Plan Deadlines and Project Events
[|Dr. Berlin's Website on Unit Planning] The [|rubric] that the project staff will use to evaluate your units


 * ~ **Homework:** ||~ **Due by:** ||
 * Draft big idea, [|EssentialQuestions], and summative task (put on your wiki) || December 7 ||
 * Refine summative task, check for alignment with big idea and essential question || December 14 ||
 * Identify standards, write content and process indicators (put on your wiki) || January 5 ||
 * = //Webinar: Rubrics, January 8 @ 5:30 PM// ||
 * = //Webinar: Reading and math strategies, January 12 @ 5:30 PM// ||
 * Write a rough draft of the rubric || January 23 ||
 * = //Webinar: Accommodations, January 27 @ 5:30 PM// ||
 * Identify reading and math anchors, fit into table with content and process indicators (put on your wiki) || February 1 ||
 * Write lessons, focusing on embedded adaptations, accommodations and enrichments (put on your wiki) || March 6 ||
 * = //Webinar: Revision and evaluation, March 11 @ 5:30 PM// ||
 * = //Day 5 at IU 1, March 20// ||
 * Revise and evaluate your unit plan || April 17 ||
 * Unit plan finished and on your wiki, teach at least one lesson from the unit, document it using technology, and upload the evidence to your wiki || May 7 ||
 * Deadline for project staff to submit reports to the IU, PDE and USDoE || June 30 ||

Day 1
**__Agenda__: Watch the meeting: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/793024 Morning**: 8:00 - 11:30
 * Oct. 17, 2008 (8:00-3:30) at IU1 (6hrs)**
 * Registration & Pre-test (Mara Linaberger & Rosemary Omniewski)
 * Meet & Greet: Introduction to Faculty (All)
 * Introduction of Participants (Participants)
 * Get to know you activity (All)
 * Introduction to the Arts Educator 2.0 Project:
 * announcement, application, funding, steering committee (Mara Linaberger)
 * expectations, goals, requirements, courses, timelines, PPDP, etc. (Leslie Gates)
 * Overview of GIAE Summer 2008 (Jamie Kasper)
 * content covered, how it relates to our project
 * Keyarts wikispace: 2008 unit rubric, faculty presentations, 2008 Units of study
 * Keyarts website
 * Chapter 4 regulations, standards, and SAS
 * Lunch**: 11:30 - 12:30, eat with your mentoring group (blue or green dots)
 * Afternoon:** 12:30 - 3:30
 * Meet the project partners:
 * [|Arts Education Collaborative] (Pittsburgh), Deb Boresma, Project Director
 * [|Gateway to the Arts] (Pittsburgh), Lisa Hoitsma, Executive Director
 * [|Little Lake Theater] (Cannonsburg), Sunny Disney-Fitchett, Artistic Director
 * Arts Educator 2.0 Wiki walk-through
 * Discussion of next meeting agenda(s)
 * Q & A time
 * Homework**
 * Take leading questions and draft some rough goals for your PPDP
 * Be sure to focus on goals that can lead to improved student achievement
 * Contact your art mentor about those goals (via email, or other)
 * Documents**
 * Click on the Documents tab to see the items printed for your project binder

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Day 2
Morning Tasks:** 8:00 - 11:30 > View the webinar recording at: http://vclass.cciu.org/recordings.html?s=1226034000000&e=1226120399999&sort_column=date&change_direction=false&page=0
 * Nov. 7, 2008 (8:00-3:30) at IU1 (6hrs)**
 * __Agenda__
 * Housekeeping (Linaberger & Kasper)
 * Review project graphic - over arching goals (all)
 * Review PPDP course checklist (all)
 * Mentoring & your PPDP (Leslie & David)
 * Break up into groups: scheduling, PPDP writing, etc. (All)
 * Q & A (all)
 * Lunch:** 11:30 - 12:30 - eat with your mentoring group
 * Afternoon Tasks**: 12:30 - 3:30
 * Review Unit Planning Course checklist (all)
 * Introduction to Elluminate (Kasper & Linaberger)
 * Participating in Webinars, schedule of dates (all)
 * Locating webinar archives for review (all)
 * Elements of Unit Planning (Kasper)
 * Discussion of next meeting agenda (all)
 * Q & A time (all)
 * Homework**
 * Draft your PPDP
 * Contact your mentor about PPDP and visitation
 * Prepare your computer for participation in Webinar 1 (11/19)
 * Documents**
 * Click on the Documents tab to see the items printed for your project binder

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Day 3
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 * Dec. 2, 2008 (8:00-3:30) at IU1 (6hrs)**
 * Morning Tasks:** 8:00 - 11:00
 * Introduction to Wikis
 * Using Arts Educator 2.0 wiki
 * Creating the wiki to house your your Unit Plan (Link it to the Arts Educator 2.0 Wikispace)
 * Adding pages to your wiki
 * Posting your Webinar 1 homework
 * Drafting your mini-grant proposal
 * Practice time
 * Skype Call:** 11:00-11:30
 * Mentoring discussions
 * Lunch:** 11:30 - 12:30
 * Afternoon Tasks**: 12:30 - 3:30
 * Introduction to Skype
 * Skype call to Mercyhurst College (1PM or later)
 * Setup and account creation
 * Practice time
 * Homework**
 * Build up your "About Me" page
 * Work on your PPDP page on the wiki
 * Work on your Unit Planning page on the wiki
 * Work on your Mini Grant page on the wiki
 * Use Skype to stay in touch
 * Documents**
 * Click on the Documents tab to see the items printed for your project binder
 * Today's Recordings**

Day 4
Morning Tasks:** 8:00 - 11:30 media type="custom" key="2876021" http://www.justin.tv/mlinaberger/archive
 * Jan. 6, 2009** **(8:00-3:00)** **at IU1 (6hrs)**
 * __Agenda__
 * Data informing today's work
 * Introduction of Vado, charging
 * Unit Planning: Review of Webinar 1 & 2 & 3 content
 * Bringing Rich & Compelling Content, Big Ideas, & Essential Questions into your Unit Plan
 * Designing formative & summative assessments for your Unit Plan
 * Including Content & Process indicators in your Unit Plan
 * Role of Gateway to the Arts in your Unit Plan
 * Mini Grant updates
 * Mentoring updates/discussion
 * Lunch:** 11:30 - 12:30
 * Afternoon Tasks**: 12:30 - 3:00
 * Using the Vado
 * Introduction to iPod
 * Using the iPod
 * Make-up Work OR Independent Work Time (make-up work takes priority, and must be done to take home iPod & Vado)
 * Choose the activity which meets your own learning needs or goals:
 * Explore Vado training page and explore the resources
 * Explore iPods training page and explore the resources
 * Explore Google Tools training page and explore the resources
 * Homework**
 * Update your wikspace with Unit Plan elements from the next 3 webinars
 * Work on your PPDP, adding evidence to your wiki as you go
 * Use Vado to record evidence for your PPDP
 * Use iPod to do independent learning on your PPDP topic
 * Documents**
 * Click on the Documents tab to see the items printed for your project binder
 * Today's Recordings**

Day 5
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 * Mar. 20, 2009** **(8:00-3:00)** **at IU1 (6hrs)**
 * __Agenda__
 * Review of Today's Materials & Announcements (Mara)
 * Review of Data informing today's meeting (Jamie)
 * Unit Planning milestones - exemplars (David & Leslie)
 * PPDP milestones - exemplars (David & Leslie)
 * Spring visits and Meetings with your district leadership (Faculty)
 * Lunch:** 11:30 - 12:30
 * Afternoon Tasks**: 12:30 - 3:00
 * Guided Practice Time, PC Lab (Jamie, David, Leslie)
 * Technology Tools for productivity: Overview of GoogleApps, 119B (Mara, rotating faculty)
 * Expectations for Day 6 & Wrap-Up (Faculty)
 * Homework**
 * finish unit plan and submit to your mentor by: _
 * work on your PPDP and create a reflection to be submitted by: _
 * __complete self-evaluation__
 * complete peer reviews by: March 25
 * Documents**
 * __Click on the Documents tab to see the items printed for your project binder__

Day 6
__**Agenda**__
 * May 7, 2009** **(8:00-3:30)** **at IU1 (6hrs)**
 * Morning Tasks:** 8:00 - 11:30
 * Summative Assessment (post test, and post survey) - Rosemary
 * Evaluator exit interviews (ongoing throughout the day) - Rosemary, Camille, Mary Elizabeth
 * Announcements - Jamie & Mara
 * Reflection: video - Leslie & David
 * Sharing (participants / small groups)
 * Project Next Steps - faculty
 * General plans for next year - Leslie, Jamie, Mara
 * Project dates - Mara
 * Learning Communities Discussion - small groups with faculty
 * Reporting Out - all
 * Lunch:** 11:30 - 12:30
 * Afternoon Tasks**: 12:30 - 3:30
 * Unit & PPDP Evaluation Feedback - all faculty
 * Independent Work Time - faculty supported
 * Work on revisions to Unit or PPDP OR
 * Self-Selected: Technology - choose a page from our wiki to explore on your own:
 * Aesthetic Technology
 * Desktop Recording
 * Google (Tools)
 * Machinima
 * New Technologies
 * Of Interest
 * Pod-Vodcasting
 * Web 2.0
 * Wikis
 * Adjourn
 * Homework**
 * Teach your unit and share results on your wiki
 * Reapply to participate in Year 2 (with federal continuation of the project funding)
 * Documents**
 * Click on the Documents tab to see the items printed for your project binder

__**Webinar 1**__
November 19, 5:30, with Jamie Kasper Audio companion file http://tozier.net/dberlin/unitdesign/Webinar1.mp3
 * Rich & Compelling Content (2hrs)**
 * Documents**
 * Homework**: Big idea, Essential Questions, and summative task (to be added to your wiki)
 * Recording:** http://vclass.cciu.org/recordings.html?s=1227070800000&e=1227157199999&sort_column=date&change_direction=false&page=0

**Webinar 2**
December 8, 5:30, with Mary Elizabeth Meier
 * Formative & Summative Assessment (2hrs)**
 * Documents** [[file:Assessment.pdf]]
 * Homework** Apply the principles of assessment that Mary Elizabeth presented to your summative task; check for alignment between the big idea, essential question and summative task
 * Recording:** http://vclass.cciu.org/recordings.html?s=1228712400000&e=1228798799999&sort_column=date&change_direction=false&page=0

**Webinar 3**
December 15, 5:30, with Leslie Gates [|webinar 3.ppt]
 * Content & Process Indicators (2hrs)**
 * Documents**
 * Homework**: Identify standards and content & process indicators. Insert these in a table in your wiki by January 6, the next in-person day at IU 1.
 * Recording:** http://vclass.cciu.org/recordings.html?s=1229317200000&e=1229403599999

**Webinar 4**
January 8, 5:30, with Dan Long [|PDE Rubrics Presentation, Jan 2008.ppt] [|Rubrics presentation.pdf] [|bloom_revised.pdf] Link to Jamie's Rubrics how-to page Jamie's Rubric Writing Jing recording
 * Rubrics (2hrs)**
 * Documents**:
 * Homework**: Draft your rubric on your wiki by January 23
 * Recording:** http://vclass.cciu.org/recordings.html?s=1231390800000&e=1231477199999

**Webinar 5**
January 12, 5:30, with Diane Wilkin [|Reading and math webinar.pdf] [|PDE reading and math.ppt]
 * Integrating Reading & Math (2hrs)**
 * Documents**
 * Homework** Continue to work on your rubric and finish the draft by January 23. In the meantime, begin to familiarize yourself with the reading and math anchors. After your rubric is drafted, identify the reading and math anchors that are natural fits for your unit. Put them into your grid with the standards and match them up with or write new content and process indicators for them. This is due by February 1.
 * Recording:** http://vclass.cciu.org/recordings.html?s=1231736400000&e=1231822799999, click on AE 2.0 Reading and Math

**Webinar 6**
January 27, 5:30, with William R. Pearce [|Accommodations.pdf]
 * Adaptations & Accomodations (2hrs)**
 * Documents**
 * Homework** Identify reading and math anchors and line them up with your content and process indicators by February 1. By March 6, write your lessons, focusing on embedded accommodations. You need 3 sets of accommodations: special learners, ESL/ELL (as you see fit), and gifted learners. For the special learners accommodations, identify the 3 most prevalent disabilities in your classroom and focus on embedding for those disabilities in each lesson.
 * Recording:** http://vclass.cciu.org/recordings.html?s=1233032400000&e=1233118799999, click on AE 2.0 Accommodations

__Webinar 7__
March 11, 5:30, with Rosemary Omniewski and David Berlin [|Revision and evaluation webinar.pdf] [|webinar.ppt]
 * Revision & Evaluation (2hrs)**
 * Agenda**
 * Documents**
 * Homework** By March 25, trade units with your partner and give feedback.
 * Recording:** http://vclass.cciu.org/recordings.html?s=1236744000000&e=1236830399999, click on AE 2.0 Revision and evaluation

=Independent Work & Homework=
 * Dates on your own, (16 hrs total)**

(see each on-site date or webinar above for particular assignments)
 * Homework Assignments**

-** Using a Wikipage (either a page here, or their own Wiki)
 * Creating Your Unit of Study

=Celebration of Learning=
 * Date, TBD, (5:00 - 8:00)**

Participants will receive three (3) CPE credits after completing: the pre & post-tests, participating in all five face-to-face workshops, participating in the 7 webinars, taking an online survey, completing the IU1 evaluation, and submitting the completed Unit Plan to the instructors. All submitted work should conform to APA or MLA guidelines for fair use and proper citation of referenced material.