CONCERT ATTENDANCE OBSERVATION AND CRITIQUE

DESCRIPTIVE
1. Write down the name of the performance, performers, venue, place, date, time.
2. Write your observations of the number of performers, biographic details of the performer(s) as per the program, performance notes on the repertoire and observations on the locale, acoustics, logistics, setup.

ANALYTIC
1. Analyze the piece(s) you heard as to melody, form, style, harmony, genre and texture.
2. Compare and contrast this performance to your own performance style and ability OR to the performance style and ability of your performance group at your school (band, chorus).
3. Identify connections and make comparisons of your observations at this concert and all SIX the themes identified by Daniel Pink in A Whole New Mind.

REFLECTIVE
1. Reflect on how LISTENING can make us better performers.
2. Reflect on how LISTENING can make us better teachers.
3. Now that you have heard this performance, think about how it alters your thinking about ONE aspect of your teaching?
4. Now that you have thought about how one aspect of your teaching might be influenced by what you heard in the performance, how does this connect to one (or more) of the themes in the Pink text?
5. Now that you have answered questions 1 through 5, look back at those responses and with those responses in mind put together a listening guide of 20 questions that your performance group(s) (band or chorus) could use if they should go to this concert.

Teachers,
For this coming Saturday, April 17th, please be ready to:
1. Share your reading of Chapter 3 with the class. I will ask class members to present certain sections.
2. Share your Action Research with the class. A power point or hand-outs would be a great idea.
See you Saturday.

Hi teachers,
Good to see all of you yesterday.
What to do this month:
1. Read Gardner Chapter 3 and post your observations/comments/reflections to your blog.
2. Work on your Action Research Project. Here is a possible format you may use:
Introduction
• Description of the problem: Conceptual and theoretical base
• Domain of the project: the who/what/where/when
• Design of the project: what is your plan to fix the problem and how are you going to implement it.
• Methodology and process: here you explain exactly how you went about implementing your methods e.g. how you counted/interviewed/discussed/redesigned/etc.
• Results: your findings. This would be in narrative or tables, charts, graphs, etc.
• Analysis: so what do the findings tell us? What is your interpretation of the results?
• Conclusion and recommendations: NOW WHAT? How will you change your instruction? How does this inform instruction for the future? What can you tell educators? How are you going to build on this?

Teachers,
Please find the rubrics on the ArtsAPS webpage where you can download these
rubrics and other documents on action research, etc.
The link is: http://igniteart.weebly.com/artsaps.html
The rubrics also give you a very clear idea of ALL of the requirements for this course. The rubrics and ONE guide are:

Rubric 1 Reading Response Rubric
Rubric 2 ArtsAPS Self-Assessment of Blog Entries
Rubric 3 ArtsAPS Blog Rubric
Rubric 4 ArtsAPS Video Rubric
Rubric 5 Self Assessing 26 Best Practices and ArtsAPS Learning as Seen in Teaching Video
Rubric 6 Written Critical Reflection on Teaching Video
Rubric 7 ArtsAPS Action Project Rubric TENTATIVE FINAL
Rubric 8 ArtsAPS Portfolio Rubric TENTATIVE FINAL
Student Artifact and Product Selection Guide

Blogging

Hi there teachers
I realize that we have had some disruptions due to class cancellations and that many of you might feel "where on the syllabus are we now?" Let's continue to do the following:
- Blog WEEKLY. The blog is your online journal where we see your thoughts and reflections on your readings, how these concepts from your readings are implemented in your teaching and also how you are developing your action research project.
- By now everyone must be finished reading Pink. Post a summarizing thought on this book to your blog.
- Check my syllabus for an outline for the action research project. Identify the aim of your study, type the outline of the action research project and bring to class on your laptop. We'll work on these for the next 2 months.