For our session today – here are some great resources to reference in moving forward with your work!!!

General Resources worth checking out:

• Argy’s Blog – this is a MUST! Put in your e-mail address to subscribe and get all her updates!
• Student Centered Learning – great, brief article in Edutopia
• Differences Between Teacher-Led vs Learner-Led Education — Practical Steps to Make Change Happen
  • 7 Strategies form for Formative Assessment – from Jeff Beaudry, Associate Professor Educational Leadership, University of Southern Maine.
  • Metarubric: Criteria for judging the quality of rubrics—a rubric for rubrics
  • A Variety Of Perspectives: What is “good” assessment?
  • iRubric – a SICK amount of rubrics, sortable by tons of criteria, each of them editable (my “go to” when I’m stuck for ideas).

Visual Art K-12

• List of outstanding Art Education Blogs
• North Carolina “I Can” Statements, for Visual Art, by grade-span! You could design an entire program around these! Use each one to design your own indicators for your applicable courses. Transition from, “This is what I teach” to “This is what my students learn”!
• Grading Art – a compelling document with an immense dive into every component of our classrooms imaginable.
• Kennedy Center Digital Resources – Lesson Plans, searchable by grade level and subject!

Music K-12

• North Carolina “I Can” Statements, for Music, by grade span! I have used these a hundred times to discuss learning targets, standards, indicators and scope and sequence for Music Education. Transition from, “This is what I teach” to “This is what my students learn”!
• Carnegie Hall Digital Resources/Lessons – a great collection, by grade-span.
• Kennedy Center Digital Resources – Lesson Plans, searchable by grade level and subject!