meeting in the middle:
Creating a blended art curriculum for a new middle school
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Founders Academy Grade 6 Visual Arts
Founders Academy Grade 6 Visual Art Integration
Founders Academy Grade 6 Visual Arts
Founders Academy Grade 6 Visual Art Integration
Abstract
This paper introduces a capstone project centered on creating a curriculum framework for a new charter art middle school in urban New England; Founders Academy at Beacon Charter High School for the Arts. The framework is based on the Understanding by Design model (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005). It uses the art as integrated with other subjects and in and of itself, integral to the overall school curriculum. I have used this premise to create the curriculum map for the afore-mentioned middle school. I sought responses to the newly created framework from art and core educators and administrators in an art-focused secondary school, Beacon Charter High School for the Arts. Seeing art education as an integral part of a school’s curriculum, I first studied the possibilities and applications of art integration in core curriculum. Second, I studied the impact of art on the core curriculum when the art is treated with equal weight to the traditional core curriculum. Lastly, my study includes my design of an art and an arts integrated curriculum framework for a middle school that will be implemented in the 2015-2016 school year. Included in the framework are schedules for the school day, a proposed integrated lesson, a proposed art lesson rubric, and integration planning sheets.
This paper introduces a capstone project centered on creating a curriculum framework for a new charter art middle school in urban New England; Founders Academy at Beacon Charter High School for the Arts. The framework is based on the Understanding by Design model (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005). It uses the art as integrated with other subjects and in and of itself, integral to the overall school curriculum. I have used this premise to create the curriculum map for the afore-mentioned middle school. I sought responses to the newly created framework from art and core educators and administrators in an art-focused secondary school, Beacon Charter High School for the Arts. Seeing art education as an integral part of a school’s curriculum, I first studied the possibilities and applications of art integration in core curriculum. Second, I studied the impact of art on the core curriculum when the art is treated with equal weight to the traditional core curriculum. Lastly, my study includes my design of an art and an arts integrated curriculum framework for a middle school that will be implemented in the 2015-2016 school year. Included in the framework are schedules for the school day, a proposed integrated lesson, a proposed art lesson rubric, and integration planning sheets.
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art education: Proceedings from the Penn State conference (pp. 102-107). Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.
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Symposium cohosted by MOCA and the Los Angeles Unified School District Arts Education Branch. Los Angeles, CA. Retrieved from
http://edu.moca.org/education/teachers/commoncore
Cummings, K. L. (2010). “So What.” “Who Cares?” “Whatever.”: Changing adolescents’ attitudes in the art classroom. Visual Arts Research, 36(1), 55–67.
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Demaine, E., & Demaine, M. (2014, October). Keynote speakers. 10th annual center institute: What’s now? What’s next? Arts in the 21st Century. Symposium conducted at
the meeting of the Center for Arts in Education, Boston, MA.
Eisner, E. (2002). What the arts teach and how it shows. The arts and the creation of mind. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. (pp. 70-92).
Green, H. (1966, January). Walter Smith: The forgotten man. Art Education 19(1), 3 – 9.
Gude, O. (2007). Principles of possibility: Considerations for a 21st century art & culture curriculum. Art Education, 60(1), 6-17.
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Teachers College Press.
Hetland, L., Winner, E., Veenema, S., & Sheridan, K. (2013). Studio thinking 2: The real benefits of visual arts education. Preston,VA: National Art Education Association.
Jemison, M. (2002, February). Mae Jemison: Teach arts and sciences together. [Video File]. Retrieved from
http://www.ted.com/talks/mae_jemison_on_teaching_arts_and_sciences_together?language=en
Lindemann, D.J., Tepper, S.J., Gaskill, S., Jones, S.D., Kuh, G.D., Lambert, A.D., Lena, J., Miller, A.L., Park, K., Rudolph, E.B., & Vanderwerp, L. (2012). Painting with broader
strokes: Reassessing the value of an art education (SNAAP Special Report No. 1). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University and Vanderbilt University, Strategic
National Art Alumni Project. Retrieved from http://snaap.indiana.edu/pdf/SNAAP_Special%20Report_1.pdf
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http://www.edutopia.org/blog/stem-to-steam-strengthens-economy-john-maeda.
Marshall, J. (2006) Art integration = exemplary art education. Art Education 59(6). 17 – 24.
Miller, A.L. & Lambert, A.D. (2012). Comparing skills and competencies for high school, undergraduate, and graduate art alumni. International Journal of Education &
the Art, 13(5). 1-13.
Partnership for 21st century skills. (n.d.) Framework for 21st century learning. Washington, D.C.: Soule, H. Retrieved from http://www.p21.org/our-work/p21-framework
Rhode Island Department of Education. (2014). Empathy-based interview procedures. Meeting materials from district teacher of the year 2016 cohort meeting,
October 30, 2014.
Robinson, K. (2009). The element: how finding your passion changes
everything. Penguin Group New York, New York.
Sheridan, K. (2009). Studio thinking in early childhood education. In Marilyn Narey (ed.) Making meaning: Constructing multimodal perspectives of language, literacy,
and learning through art-based early childhood education (pp. 71-88). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
Skeldon, M. (2015). Personal communication March 9, 2015.
Smith, W. (1873). Teachers’ manual for teaching freehand drawing in primary schools. Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company.
Simpson, A. (2007, July 1). Some push for art in core curriculum. The Boston Globe. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/462109989?accountid=10920
Smilan, C. & Marzilli Miraglia, K. (2009). Art teachers as leaders of authentic art integration. Art Education, (62)6. 39 – 45.
Stuht, A. & Gates, J. (2007). The case for an art-based curriculum. Leadership 36(4), 30 – 33.
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http://www.edutopia.org/blog/core-practices-arts-integration-susan-riley May 26, 2015.
