Mississippi Creative Arts Elementary Curriculum Mapping Workshop

1. Mississippi Creative Arts Elementary Curriculum Mapping Workshop

2. Workshop Goals • Provide an opportunity to check in about Arts Integrated Curriculum Mapping • Provide an opportunity for teachers to engage in discussing documenting and displaying student work and the learning process • Provide time for teachers to ask questions about Mapping and Documentation Expectations • Provide an opportunity for teachers to explore culturally responsive teaching strategies

3. Where Are you?

4. Checking In • How are your grade level curriculum maps progressing? • What are you finding and noticing as you write them with colleagues? • What questionshas the mapping process raised for you?

5. Mapping and Sharing Expectations What are the Steps?

6. Mapping and Sharing Expectations • Complete one Arts Integrated lesson plan by October 11. • Ask Jan or Robin to assist if you need help in making arts or “core” content connections • Share lesson with Jan and Kate on SPPS Apps • Revise or modify lesson as needed • Implement the lesson prior to Fall conferences • Post lesson and documentation of the process and student learning in the hallway

7. Demonstration of Learning through Documentation • Who is your audience? • Where will the work be shared? • Post lesson plan • Include benchmarks or learning targets • Document student learning in process with photos

8. Demonstration of Learning through Documentation • Recreate student involvement in activities for photos if needed • Include student work samples • Include student and teacher reflection • What else could be included?

9. Culturally Responsive Instruction

10. Culturally Responsive Instruction • One way teachers meet the diverse needs of their students is by addressing their cultural, linguistic, and economic backgrounds. • Culturally responsive teaching uses students’ cultural experiences and background as a medium for helping them learn skills in various classes. • A culturally responsive teacher: • Designs instruction that affirms, draws on and extends students’ life experiences.They teacher is knowledgeable about students’ life circumstances, and encourages them to write, research, and create artworks about topics that are close to them.

11. A Culturally Responsive Teacher • Designs instruction that affirms, draws on and extends students’ life experiences.They teacher is knowledgeable about students’ life circumstances, and encourages them to write, research, and create artworks about topics that are close to them. • Chooses diverse materials that relate to who the students are. The teacher makes sure to include works from other cultures that both affirm and challenge student experiences

12. A Culturally Responsive Teacher • Shows sensitivity to students’ language. The teacher does not, for example, over-correct lapses in language use by students who are working toward proficiency in standard English. • Gives students access to successful adult models who come from a variety of backgrounds, including backgrounds similar to those of the students. The teacher draws on adult practitioners from diverse backgrounds to enrich student learning.

13. A Culturally Responsive Teacher • Creates learning activities that mesh with students’ styles of interaction.The teacher encourages students to work alone, and with peers in pairs, and in small, self-regulating groups.

14. A Culturally Responsive Teacher • What could you put in place to ensure that your Arts Integrated lesson includes culturally responsive teaching strategies?

15. Final Reflection • What were your most significant take-aways from today?

16. Have a great day!!