1st Draft Curriculum Unit Summary
I. Rationale
Why are you teaching
this unit? What is important for you as a teacher and researcher? Big
Ideas: What are the Themes or the Big Ideas or Enduring Ideas (see Stewart & Walker, 2005) that this
unit is organized around?
Discipline Based Art
Education: The content should be at least as robust as the best DBAE unit.
Ask yourself, how will the students experience the artwork you are studying,
how will they learn to describe, interpret or evaluate the work, what kinds of
questions will you be asking about beauty, meaning or aesthetics.
Critical Theory, Visual
Culture, Design Education: How does your curriculum connect to ideas about
visual culture and critical pedagogy?
Postmodern
Principles: How does your curriculum connect to ideas about postmodern
curriculum elements, as described by Olivia Gude (2007, 2013)?
Design Education: How
does your curriculum connect to modernist ideas about art and learning? How
does you curriculum account for design education, including the teaching of
elements and principles of design?
II. Students. Who
are your students?
III. Key Concepts
What are the key concepts associated with your theme or enduring idea?
IV. Essential Questions.
What are essential questions associated with your themes or enduring ideas?
V. Learning Goals.
What do you want your students to know or understand or be able to do? What do you want them to feel or experience? What are your goals for yourself?
VI. Art Learning Standards
How does your unit and learning goals align with state and national standards?
VII. Art and Artists Histories and Methodologies Mediums and Methods
VIII. Learning Activities and Lesson Plans
IX. Culminating Project.
X. Assessment
How will you tell if what you are doing is working? What evidence will you gather?
