First Draft Curriculum Due March 6

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?