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MAC in a Moment
April 24, 2019
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Teaching creative thinking is necessary for all of our learners.
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Resources for program improvement in the arts
We take our cue from the arts because their standards are organized by three curriculum strands: create, perform/present, respond. Together, these strands engage students in the creative process. MAC has a special affinity for promoting teaching, assessing, and learning in the arts, and we do so through the Michigan Arts Education Instruction and Assessment (MAEIA) project. MAEIA offers an extensive set of resources:
- Blueprint for High Quality Arts Education Program
- Program Review Tool
- 360 performance assessments in Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts
- Professional learning opportunities
- Tools and support for authentic evaluation of arts educator effectiveness
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MAEIA Institute for arts educators and their administrators….
This summer, MAEIA invites Michigan arts teachers and their building administrators to participate in the MAEIA Institute 2019. This virtual learning experience will improve the teams’ ability to support student growth and educator effectiveness through the comprehensive set of MAEIA resources.
Led by MAEIA Professional Learning Director Heather Vaughan-Southard, participants create a professional portfolio which tells the story of arts learning in their classroom and buildings. In the process, educators work intimately with the MAEIA resources to better measure student performance, report on student growth, and develop their own agency within the process of demonstrating educator effectiveness.
One elementary visual arts educator who attended last summer’s Institute called it “the most relevant ‘class’ I have ever taken.”
Read and share the MAEIA Institute 2019 flyer.
Register a team to attend.
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Performance assessment…
The arts (like all disciplines) must offer students the opportunity to demonstrate what they know and can do through rich, authentic, curriculum-embedded performance assessments. The MAC has some resources to help:
- Read and share this Learning Point on “Performance Assessments in the Visual Arts”.
- Enjoy and share this 3-minute Learning Moment video where Dr. Stuart Kahl describes some important characteristics of performance assessment.
- Consider the technical arguments made in Stuart Kahl’s ThinkPoint describing how curriculum-embedded performance assessment could be used in state and local district assessment systems to provide a more motivating, robust, and balanced way to measure student learning.
- Explore MI-CSS, powered by OSCAR Classroom, a virtual collaborative scoring system developed under the direction of MAC Assessment Director Ed Roeber. This innovative solution permits professionals to score student work, upload to a virtual platform and have other professionals score the work against rubric criteria, enabling more use of performance assessment and extended constructed response items to assess deeper learning.
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Don’t miss the next ALN event!
Assessment that supports Literacy
May 21, 2019; Lansing, MI
Registration
Join internationally-recognized formative assessment expert Margaret Heritage and MSU researcher and principal contributor to Literacy Essentials Tanya Wright for an exploration of assessment practices and systems that best support the development of literacy proficiency in the early grades.
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The content in this issue is also available as a single PDF with bibliography and web URLs for resources. CLICK HERE to access the PDF.
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