Resources

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//Twelve// //years ago I was a teaching artist with dual degrees in Elementary Education and Theatre, fresh from training in the United Kingdom in arts infused process theatre and proud to be rostered on the Pennsylvania Arts Council directory of artists.//

//Quite by accident I met someone from the Pennsylvania Department of Education who was looking for a drama specialist for a project involving the then proposed Pennsylvania Arts and Humanities standards. The Department of Education sent me to training at the National Arts Assessment Institute as Pennsylvania's theatre appointee. Before I knew it, I was consulting for the Pennsylvania Department of Education on a regular basis and training Pennsylvania visual arts, dance, theatre and music teachers in lesson planning and assessment using the Pennsylvania Arts and Humanities standards.//

//My work with standards and assessment opened my eyes to the value of a lesson plan and served me well as I took on other career hats, including one as a classroom theatre arts teacher. I found that the standards helped me to truly focus on what I wanted my students to know and do. This clear focus created a frame on which to hang my artistry, and I knew that I was giving them a solid grounding in my art form. Best yet, I learned to use assessment to keep checking in so that I always knew where my class was in the lesson. Did they get it? Was I sure?//

//Today I'm thrilled to be sharing what I know about Pennsylvania's arts standards and arts assessment with all of our fabulous teachers and teaching artists. The resources that follow have been chosen to guide you in the creation of arts infused, standards based lessons that will help your students understand the language of art making.//

//First in your resource kit, you'll find a copy of the Pennsylvania Arts and Humanities standards. Next comes an overview of Pennsylvania's Standards Aligned Systems (SAS); the cyber home for standards, instruction and curriculum samples in the arts. You will also find a quick "cheat sheet" for arts education curriculum in PA, showing you how art's big ideas and standards work together. Finally you will find the 21st Century Partnership's Arts Framework, included because it's a great source of concrete examples linking arts lessons to twenty-first centry skills such as collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity & innovation, technology, digital literacy and more.//

//It is our hope that these resources will help provide a common language for teacher and teaching artist, offer a framework for building the arts portions of arts infused lessons and expand everyone's toolkits in new and creative ways.//

Enjoy! //**Ms. Cory WIlkerson, Arts Specialist, Drama and Theatre**//

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 * [[file:academic standards.pdf|Academic Standards]]
 * [|Standards Aligned System (SAS)]
 * [[file:Introduction to Standards Based Lesson Planning.ppt|Introduction to Standards Based Lesson Planning]]
 * 21st Century Partnership's Arts Framework
 * Arts & Technology Readings
 * Arts Community Resources
 * Arts Infusion Models
 * Arts Integration and Infusion Resources
 * Arts Resources
 * Assessment - Arts
 * Dance and Movement Resources
 * Digital Storytelling Resources
 * Drama Resources
 * Fair Use, Creative Commons and Copyright
 * General Arts
 * Music Resources
 * Other Arts Resources
 * Social Networking
 * Technology How Tos
 * Video Editing and Photographing Residencies
 * Visual Art Ed Resources
 * Web 2.0 Tools and Resources
 * Wiki How Tos and Resources