Tentative Plan

ArtsNOW - Teacher Resource Project - Richard Benjamin Feb 11, 2011
Ignite Guides Tentatively Identified for ‘On-Line’ Extensions

Poetry In Motion	Melissa	Language Arts & Math	Team 1
Colages	?	Language Arts Writing & SS	Team 2
Habitat	Music - Maribeth	Science & SS	Team 3	extension video of K ‘Money’ Unit
Kandinski	Darby	Language Arts Writing & Math	Team 4
Drama 1 - Play Writing	Suzie	Language Arts & ?	Team 5 @ Hickory Hills??
Drama 2 - Punctuation Station	Suzie	Language Arts & ?	Team 6	Victor Borge video http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=12478
AABBAA Patterns in literature and Music	Diane Dancero?		Team 7 ??	Strong IG, addressing power standards

Team 5 @ Hickory Hills - Very Tentative, pending discussion
    - Grade Level Teacher - Zach
    - Other Grade Level Teachers - Beth Silvey
    - ESOL Teacher - Candi
    - SpEd Teacher - Annie (self-contained) Velma (?)
    - Gifted Teacher - Cathy C
    - Drama Teacher - Mary Gagliardi (use drama approach materials)
    - Drama Specialist - Suzie -
    - Visual Arts Specialist - Amanda Quay

? Who should be Team Leader - extra hours?

Provided Resources - Professional Library
SpEd - Accommodations Chart,    Recent ArtsNOW presentation on Special Education??,
Marzano Classroom Strategies - Classroom Instruction That Works & A Handbook for Classroom Instruction That Works
ESOL - Marzano # 5 Non-Linguistic Representations (use drawing in addition to written product - Use storyboard drawings from Sherry Norfolk book for playwriting) and, Marzano Building Academic Vocabulary - Teacher’s Manual
Gifted - Primarily Imagination, Creative Problem Solving & Design and Innovation / Creating Products
Imagination First

				Team Leader training, prep and production 4 extra hours
2 hours -individual initial prep and review of resource materials - see below	One hour team collaborative authoring - see below	2 hours individual work on assignment - see below	One hour team collaborative authoring - see below	6 hours each team member
				34 hours Total

Separate Planning and Development:   (Designated Team Leader and Benjamin)
- Review the selected Ignite Guide
- Review tasks and expected outcomes (Ignite Guide On-Line Professional Learning Extensions
           for: SpEd, ESOL, Gifted.....with regular [writing?] and ‘performance’ assessments)
- Review all resources to be provided to the team members
- Set tentative dates and times
- Practice using Google Docs and Skype video

Development Team Sessions:
Two hour individual initial prep - review: (do not spend more than one hour, pace yourself)
- Assigned Ignite Guide - select a very few ‘power’ Standards - important and difficult
- Sp Ed Accommodations chart - select one important and frequent disability and review suggested strategies for it
- ESOL Accommodations - select one promising strategy
- Gifted Strategies - from differentiated instruction presentation, select one appropriate strategy
- regular assessment - usually involving writing and the application of the GA writing rubric and a content related rubric
- ‘performance’ assessment - consider an arts-based performance, involving the primary art form of the original Ignite Guide

One hour team collaborative authoring:   Phone and/or Skype conference
- share and discuss results of the individual work above
- work toward a coherent set of tentative extensions
- identify any additional resources to be suggested to the others
- identify individual assignments
- identify any needs for next individual work assignments
- agree on deadlines and next collaboration dates

One hour individual work on assignment - do not go over one hour
- proceed with each individual assignment
- check immediately with Team Leader if an obstacle or problem is identified
- send in work to shared Google Docs prior to the assigned deadline
- review the work submitted by others, prior to the next collaboration date

Separate Planning and Development:   (Designated Team Leader and Benjamin)
- Review general and specific direction of the team with Quality Group for information and input
- Review general and specific direction of the team with Anne, Pam & Darby for information and input

Development Team Sessions:
One hour team collaborative authoring - Phone and/or Skype conference
- Collaboratively refine each Ignite Guide On-Line Professional Learning Extension

Separate Planning and Development:    (Designated Team Leader and Benjamin)
- Edit and refine all final products
- Translate and put into the Quality Group format
- Review with Quality Group