What does an effective lesson look like in your classroom?
An effective lesson in my classroom has a clear objective which is based off of common core and/or state standards. This objective will then be explained to my students in kid friendly terms in order for them to know where the lesson is headed. I set out a specific path by explaining and modeling how the students should behave as they participate in the lesson. I also use active student engagement strategies when creating my lessons. These strategies ensure that students get engaged through hands-on activities that enhance the lesson's objective. I use small group discussions, make sure all students are participating and am constantly moving around the room in order to make sure students are understanding the lesson and are staying on task. My lessons incorporate questions in order to develop critical thinking skills. I do this by asking students why, how, if, and what else questions to strengthen student comprehension of the issues and skills at hand. Most importantly an effective lesson in my classroom will show through the students engagement, active participation and the assessment of knowledge at the end of the lesson.
Friday, June 19, 2015
My Learning Stations
Stained Glass Art and Math 1st grade
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5pqw7IsU-6CLV93QXN0S2JJR0k/view?usp=sharing
Musical Water Glasses Math, Science and Music 4th grade
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5pqw7IsU-6CYlBuNE14LTQ0RUE/view?usp=sharing
Bubble Solution Math, Science and Movement K-2nd grade
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5pqw7IsU-6CNHF3NGRnSFl6d28/view?usp=sharing
Thursday, June 11, 2015
The Crayola Grant
An arts grant will be beneficial to the students because with schools cutting the arts and focusing more on curriculum focused on the common core standards and are leaving out the arts. However, as we have learned we can integrate the arts into our core curriculum and still be teaching common core standards. The developmental benefits of implementing the arts into the classroom can be refined motor skills, language development, decision making skills, visual learning skills, inventiveness, cultural awareness and an overall improved academic performance.
Title: The Crayola Grant
What it's for: Each grant-winning school (up to 20 grants awarded) receives $2,500 and Crayola products valued at $1,000.
Who can apply:In collaboration with the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), Crayola offers up to 20 grants for schools in the United States or Canada. The applications will only be accepted from principals who are members of NAESP. If you are not the principal, please collaborate with your school's leader to develop the plan.The National Art Education Association encourages their members to partner with their school's principal and colleagues to generate grant proposals.
Schools who received this grant in 2014 will not be eligible to apply for a 2015-2016 grant. Instead, we urge grant winners to become judges to help score new proposals. 2014 winners may apply again in 2016.
Requirements:
1. Form a collaborative team to plan innovative ways of infusing creativity throughout the school.
2. Brainstorm a leadership program that will enrich the creative capabilities and confidence within the school community.
3. Plan how and who will lead this collaborative effort.
Complete the application.
FAQ: They look for the many innovative ways schools propose building the creative capacity of the school and increasing art-infused education. The plan should address specific needs and interests of your professional learning community. Consider how you’d create the team, craft a common vision, chart a strategic plan, change behaviors, build creative confidence, teach design thinking, align new National Arts Standards with Common Core or your state’s standards, embed creativity into the school culture, and use professional development, peer observation, and coaching to implement the plan.
Deadlines: Submit application by June 22, 2015 (the principal must be a member of NAESP).
Receive a gift — every Early Bird application submitted before midnight on Monday, June 8, 2015 will receive a Crayola product Classpack®.
Title: The Crayola Grant
What it's for: Each grant-winning school (up to 20 grants awarded) receives $2,500 and Crayola products valued at $1,000.
Who can apply:In collaboration with the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), Crayola offers up to 20 grants for schools in the United States or Canada. The applications will only be accepted from principals who are members of NAESP. If you are not the principal, please collaborate with your school's leader to develop the plan.The National Art Education Association encourages their members to partner with their school's principal and colleagues to generate grant proposals.
Schools who received this grant in 2014 will not be eligible to apply for a 2015-2016 grant. Instead, we urge grant winners to become judges to help score new proposals. 2014 winners may apply again in 2016.
Requirements:
1. Form a collaborative team to plan innovative ways of infusing creativity throughout the school.
2. Brainstorm a leadership program that will enrich the creative capabilities and confidence within the school community.
3. Plan how and who will lead this collaborative effort.
Complete the application.
FAQ: They look for the many innovative ways schools propose building the creative capacity of the school and increasing art-infused education. The plan should address specific needs and interests of your professional learning community. Consider how you’d create the team, craft a common vision, chart a strategic plan, change behaviors, build creative confidence, teach design thinking, align new National Arts Standards with Common Core or your state’s standards, embed creativity into the school culture, and use professional development, peer observation, and coaching to implement the plan.
Deadlines: Submit application by June 22, 2015 (the principal must be a member of NAESP).
Receive a gift — every Early Bird application submitted before midnight on Monday, June 8, 2015 will receive a Crayola product Classpack®.
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Arts and Movement Lesson- multiple content areas
My lesson would be for 3rd grade and would incorporate math, art, and literacy. The lesson is called Dream House. The first part of the lesson would include students brainstorming ideas of what they would want their dream house to look like, such as how may rooms, bathrooms, game rooms, recreation rooms, etc. They would then be given a piece of paper and a pencil to write an informative paragraph or two to explain and convey ideas and provide information about their dream house and make a sketch of their dream house.
Students would then be given graph paper to draw their dream house on. They will start by drawing the outside walls and it will be required that the house be a compound figure with all right angles. They then would partition rooms into the house and each room will be required to be a rectangle. Students will then label and color each room. They will then need to record the area of each room.
This lesson will help students reach deeper understanding and will help students learn area concepts along with helping them form informative/explanatory texts. I feel as though this project will be fully engaging while leaning about math and literacy skills.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.7.D
Recognize area as additive. Find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles and adding the areas of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems.
VA:Cr2.3.1
Identify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures, or other visual means.
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/4/
http://www.k12.wa.us/CurriculumInstruct/learningstandards.aspx
Students would then be given graph paper to draw their dream house on. They will start by drawing the outside walls and it will be required that the house be a compound figure with all right angles. They then would partition rooms into the house and each room will be required to be a rectangle. Students will then label and color each room. They will then need to record the area of each room.
This lesson will help students reach deeper understanding and will help students learn area concepts along with helping them form informative/explanatory texts. I feel as though this project will be fully engaging while leaning about math and literacy skills.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.7.D
Recognize area as additive. Find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles and adding the areas of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems.
VA:Cr2.3.1
Identify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures, or other visual means.
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/4/
http://www.k12.wa.us/CurriculumInstruct/learningstandards.aspx
Friday, May 29, 2015
Arts and Movement- The Integration
Scenario #1
Dear Parent,
Thank you for presenting your concern about the integration of arts, movement and music in our classroom to me. I would like to assure you that all of my students intellectual prosperity is important to me. In fact, that's why I chose to integrate arts, movement and music into our lessons. I feel as though sitting still and quit for hours on end, for anyone, let alone third graders is a daunting task. I have to ask myself does sitting in anyway help our students learn? Do we need to tame or students' physical natures? I have found that incorporating arts, movement and music into the learning process creates more opportunities for hands on learning and is overall more engaging for the students. We all learn through our senses, drawing information in through our bodies to feed our understanding of the world. Essentially the mind and body work as one to process information.
Studies have shown that that the arts are an integral part of whole brain learning and students involved in the arts, score an average of 100 points higher on the SAT's than students who do not have access to arts education. (Arts Integration Resources, 2015) Behavior issues were also reduced when arts, movement and music integration were implemented into the classroom. Also, students in arts integration classrooms tested from 7 to 15% higher in all tested subjects regardless of demographic group of students tested. (Research, 2014)
I find multiple reasons to integrate arts, movement and music into our curriculum. I hope you will join us in our classroom in order to observe how engaged the students are in their learning through this type of integration during our lessons.
Thank you,
Alana Winstead
Arts Integration Resources. (2015). Retrieved May 29, 2015, from http://www.paps.net/domain/2744
Research. (2014). Retrieved May 29, 2015, from http://artsintegration.com/research/
Dear Parent,
Thank you for presenting your concern about the integration of arts, movement and music in our classroom to me. I would like to assure you that all of my students intellectual prosperity is important to me. In fact, that's why I chose to integrate arts, movement and music into our lessons. I feel as though sitting still and quit for hours on end, for anyone, let alone third graders is a daunting task. I have to ask myself does sitting in anyway help our students learn? Do we need to tame or students' physical natures? I have found that incorporating arts, movement and music into the learning process creates more opportunities for hands on learning and is overall more engaging for the students. We all learn through our senses, drawing information in through our bodies to feed our understanding of the world. Essentially the mind and body work as one to process information.
Studies have shown that that the arts are an integral part of whole brain learning and students involved in the arts, score an average of 100 points higher on the SAT's than students who do not have access to arts education. (Arts Integration Resources, 2015) Behavior issues were also reduced when arts, movement and music integration were implemented into the classroom. Also, students in arts integration classrooms tested from 7 to 15% higher in all tested subjects regardless of demographic group of students tested. (Research, 2014)
I find multiple reasons to integrate arts, movement and music into our curriculum. I hope you will join us in our classroom in order to observe how engaged the students are in their learning through this type of integration during our lessons.
Thank you,
Alana Winstead
Arts Integration Resources. (2015). Retrieved May 29, 2015, from http://www.paps.net/domain/2744
Research. (2014). Retrieved May 29, 2015, from http://artsintegration.com/research/
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Teaching Channel Art Videos
After watching the 4-5 videos, I noticed that arts can be incorporated in many different types of lessons. In fact, every subject can incorporate art in some way. It seemed that when the teachers incorporated art into their lessons the students seemed engaged and excited to learn. I think for most of the kids, art is fun and enjoyable, so why not incorporate it into our lessons more often. All the teachers in the videos I watched also had the students collaborate together and all the lessons were focused on higher level thinking skills. Also I like how the common core standards were noted on the videos for each lesson.
The first video I watched, was the one I found most interesting. I watched, Interpreting Ancient Art. This lesson seemed like a fun way to incorporate art into a social studies. The kids got to observe and interpret the art themselves in order to discover the history behind the art. The kids were using higher level thinking skills and this lesson was very engaging. At the end of the lesson they would find out what history about the art and compare it to what they thought it was.
Another video I liked was Evaluating Art Through Different Lenses. I liked this lesson because they were constantly thinking and engaging with their peers. It was a science lesson where they were learning about scientific reasoning through art. The students were able to debate, articulate opinions which focused on art, but used scientific words when discussing and examining the insect and animal pictures. It was interesting to see how art can be incorporated in science. I would recommend this video.
References:
Interpreting Ancient Art in Social Studies. (n.d.). Retrieved May 23, 2015, from https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/interpreting-ancient-art-getty
Evaluating Art Through Different Lenses. (n.d.). Retrieved May 23, 2015, from https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/lenses-and-art-getty
The first video I watched, was the one I found most interesting. I watched, Interpreting Ancient Art. This lesson seemed like a fun way to incorporate art into a social studies. The kids got to observe and interpret the art themselves in order to discover the history behind the art. The kids were using higher level thinking skills and this lesson was very engaging. At the end of the lesson they would find out what history about the art and compare it to what they thought it was.
Another video I liked was Evaluating Art Through Different Lenses. I liked this lesson because they were constantly thinking and engaging with their peers. It was a science lesson where they were learning about scientific reasoning through art. The students were able to debate, articulate opinions which focused on art, but used scientific words when discussing and examining the insect and animal pictures. It was interesting to see how art can be incorporated in science. I would recommend this video.
References:
Interpreting Ancient Art in Social Studies. (n.d.). Retrieved May 23, 2015, from https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/interpreting-ancient-art-getty
Evaluating Art Through Different Lenses. (n.d.). Retrieved May 23, 2015, from https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/lenses-and-art-getty
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