Sean and I continued where we left off with our last PLC meeting. Today we discussed our individual together) class's smart goals.
Sean's smart goal is for his IB class. His goal is to revise the rubrics for investigation workbooks in order to meet new requirements and language challenge for the IB exam. His main challenges are preparing students for external assessment for they have limited pages that they can submit to reveal their success. The students need to show "more" with less. Furthermore, students will need to reach all categories and levels of the requirements. Sean plans to collect the students "investigation workbooks" every two weeks and assess their progress using a newly revised rubric. The rubric is designed/based on the requirements of the new IB language for final assessment. This will reveal student goals that need improvement on.
My semester's smart goal is for my Computer Art II class. My goal is to have students create a new work of art (a graphic novel mural) that is designed primarily for the 2009 Ohio Governor's Art Show. There are many smaller goals contained in the project itself but the main goal is new to the program which I hope will provide an authentic experience for the student as an artist. The goal's success can be measure through various tools but truly if the student's work is accepted in the show, and if they do then they have succeeded at the "highest" level. The original challenge of this goal was to provide the students with a long range goal for their art work... not just to create it for a grade.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
PLC # 9 High School
Hi Gang, Sorry we haven't posted our PLC's lately. Sean and I have been swamped in the last month and a half. All is well. The issue about the clay and which art room to teach it was decided by our administration. It turns out that I will have to teach this class in Sean's room after all because of the computer issues. This will be impossible but we will struggle through... I guess.
Today's meeting... several topics.
Our first was a continuation of the logistics of the sculpture class and Sean's room.
Secondly was about computer shortage for both my room and his.
Lastly, we spent much of our time creating our smart goal for this semester.
Art I and the "Still life" project:
We have discussed this with you all in previous blog... but Sean and I are now considering some major revisions with the project. Our goal is maintain our previous goals through redistribution of time.
After reviewing the data (results of the finished still life projects, by our students) we believe that the still life project should be removed from our curriculum. Student simply could not complete the drawings (with the exception of maybe 3 or 4 out of 100 students) with any measurable degree of success or completeness.
The greatest challenges we met with the assignment was
-time... not enough of it (being only a semester class and all).
-productivity (the projects robs time from other more valuable projects)
-necessity (can we reach our goals without this project)
-readiness (are the students to take on this task and instead should wait till they reach art two.
Our goal for this second semester is to remove the still life drawing completely from the curriculum while maintaining the goal of having the students compose, render an object from life. We believe we can have the students succeed with these objectives through other current projects/exercises we have in place. The three weeks gained by removing the assignment will promote more complete work from the students in all these other assignments.
Today's meeting... several topics.
Our first was a continuation of the logistics of the sculpture class and Sean's room.
Secondly was about computer shortage for both my room and his.
Lastly, we spent much of our time creating our smart goal for this semester.
Art I and the "Still life" project:
We have discussed this with you all in previous blog... but Sean and I are now considering some major revisions with the project. Our goal is maintain our previous goals through redistribution of time.
After reviewing the data (results of the finished still life projects, by our students) we believe that the still life project should be removed from our curriculum. Student simply could not complete the drawings (with the exception of maybe 3 or 4 out of 100 students) with any measurable degree of success or completeness.
The greatest challenges we met with the assignment was
-time... not enough of it (being only a semester class and all).
-productivity (the projects robs time from other more valuable projects)
-necessity (can we reach our goals without this project)
-readiness (are the students to take on this task and instead should wait till they reach art two.
Our goal for this second semester is to remove the still life drawing completely from the curriculum while maintaining the goal of having the students compose, render an object from life. We believe we can have the students succeed with these objectives through other current projects/exercises we have in place. The three weeks gained by removing the assignment will promote more complete work from the students in all these other assignments.
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