Big+Ideas+in+the+Arts


 * Big Ideas in the Arts **

** 1. SKILLS, TECHNIQUES, and PROCESSES: Through dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts, students learn that beginners, amateurs, and professionals benefit from working to improve skills and techniques over time. **


 * 2. STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION: Works in dance, music, theatre, and visual art are organized by underlying elements and principles that guide creators, re-creators, and responders. **


 * 3. ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT: The arts are inherently experiential and actively engage learners in the processes of creating, re-creating, and responding to art. **


 * 4. COGNITION and COMMUNICATION: Individual cognition, self-expression, documentation, and communication with others are central to the arts. **


 * 5. HISTORICAL, GLOBAL, and FUTURE CONNECTIONS: The arts foster understanding, acceptance, and enrichment among individuals, groups, and cultures from around the world and across time; and this new perspective helps individuals appreciate existing works and create new ones. **


 * 6. AESTHETIC and CRITICAL REFLECTION: The arts actively engage the creator, re-creator, and responder in the processes of assessment and analysis. **


 * 7. ARTS and the ECONOMY: Arts-related careers and 21st-century skills gained through learning in the arts are transferable and integral to local and global economies. **


 * 8. RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS ACADEMIC CONTENT AREAS: Dance, music, theatre, and visual art are often infused with each other and with other academic content areas. **
 * __Sounds good to me! Nice and simply put.Janet Drout__**

[|Guidance for Development of Big Ideas.doc] [|What Is a Big Idea...and Other Articles on UbD.doc] [|Grant Wiggins' powerpoint.pdf] On Wiggins' and McTighe's Powerpoint presentation, presented here in a PDF file, please focus on the following slides: pp. 14, 18 (Big Ideas), 19, 24, 32-37, 40, 46, 47, 57, 58, 66, 79, 80-83, and 91

 Other sites to review: review [|?/a>] http://www6.grafton.k12.wi.us/district/eclipse/essentialquestions/enduring.html

[|http://www.greenwichschools.org/page.cfm?p=1678] (Click on center-of-page links titled: "Backward Design 101" and "Identifying Enduring Understandings."

[|http://pdonline.ascd.org/pd_online/ubd_backward/mctighe99chapter4.html] http://www6.grafton.k12.wi.us/district/eclipse/essentialquestions/enduring.html http://pixel.fhda.edu/hybrid/six_facets.html http://www.takingaim.org/components/transforming_standards.pdf