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= Understanding Pennsylvania's Arts and Humanities Standards =

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A big idea can be defined as a lasting and enduring understanding that can be explored and encountered again and again as focus for learning. Pennsylvania has identified 6 Big Ideas. 1. The skills, techniques, elements and principles of the arts can be learned, studied, refined and practiced. 2. Artists use tools and resources as well as their own experiences and skills to create art. 3. The arts provide a medium to understand and exchange ideas. 4. Humans have expressed experiences and ideas through the arts throughout time and across cultures 5. There are formal and informal processes used to assess the quality of works in the arts. 6. People use both aesthetic and critical processes to assess the quality of works in the arts. Big Ideas are the beginning of the process of planning curriculum or a series of lessons. These are the large targets to aim at. Standards are the next step in the process. Standards help to define the learning goals; i.e. //what you// will teach to explore the big idea. In order to meet a standard, or learning goal, the students will have to know certain things (concepts) and be able to do certain things (competencies). Pennsylvania Arts and Humanities Standards have 4 components 9.1 Performance (creating or recreating works in the arts) 9.2 Historical and Cultural (understanding the context of a work in the arts) 9.3 Criticism (evaluating works in the arts) 9.4 Aesthetics (responding to works in the arts and analyzing your own responses) Pennsylvania Arts and Humanities Standards have 4 benchmarks- 3rd, 5th, 8th and 12th grades. What does learning about performance look like by 3rd grade? 5th grade? 8th grade? 12th grade? What does learning about Historical and Cultural context look like by 3rd grade? 5th grade? 8th grade? 12th grade? What does learning about Criticism look like by 3rd grade? 5th grade? 8th grade? 12th grade? What does learning about Aesthetics look like by 3rd grade? 5th grade? 8th grade? 12th grade?

= = = Drama Integration in Action; Two Excerpts from Three Looms Waiting =

[|Dorothy Heathcote] is an internationally known innovator and expert on drama integrated into the classroom from the United Kingdom. These rare film clips open with Ms. Heathcote discussing the use of drama and an inquiry based approach as she introduces the work of using drama to teach classroom curriculum; in this case reading and language arts.

Despite the fact that these video samples are over thirty years old, note the way that the drama becomes the mechanism to engage the children in the 21st Century skills of critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and innovation. How might a drama like this be used to teach point of view? to increase comprehension skills? to increase vocabulary?

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The Art in Action goals include increasing student engagement and encouraging social and emotional growth. Listening to the children from the classroom speaking about their experience brings to mind several questions. How might drama be used to increase student self confidence? Engage all learners? Help with social and emotional learning? Encourage empathy?

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[|Pennsylvania's Standards Aligned Systems](SAS)