Research papers and revisions are still rolling back and forth between students, Addie & Heather. This is a friendly reminder to look at Skyward for communication about this Evidence of Learning.
This week, we look forward to seeing project plans, sketches, drafts, and prototypes come together. Please keep all evidence of your process. All the ideas and possibilities generated. All of the versions. Successes. Failures. All of it shows your thinking and will reveal to you (and others) how you make choices in your creative process. You have had time off from your project or maybe you spent all of your break working on something for your project, but it is time to relaunch/reboot your process. Regain your focus and drive forward. Exhibitions are in EIGHT Weeks. It may sound like a lot, but time is dwindling.
The other days this week should be dedicated to moving project forward according to group norms and agreements. Please see last week's post for recommendations and reminders.
Tim and Molly will be following up on Exhibitions of Learning Preparation Forms and Stuart would like Art Supply Requests.
By the end of this week, Skyward Grades will be updated. Please do not email your IDEATION or RESEARCH Advisors unless your grade is marked 0 out of 4. Otherwise, it has not been transcribed over from our other gradebook.
Before leaving for break at the end of the week, create a plan for what you need to read, sketch, make in the next week. Your project should be part of you, not part of school, meaning it should continue despite taking a break from school.
Advisors, please enter grades into the spreadsheet in Google Drive that has been shared with you. The Friday before break was an Evidence Check day for you to give feedback to your group of students. Also, remember to enter attendance in Skyward. If you are still having trouble accessing the Skyward Attendance for IDEAS Block, contact Ted/Kimberly ASAP.
MONDAY
Issues & Ethics students will be out of the building for an event in Madison, WI.
TUESDAY
Seek out some feedback about what you are making from a peer. Take a minute and look at their work.
WEDNESDAY
Take some time to experiment with new skills in your art form. Try something that is going to challenge your skills and your project creation.
THURSDAY
Take a step back from what you are making. Look at it from the perspective of other students, teachers, and professionals in your art form. Think about what is working well and what can be improved.
FRIDAY
Self-Assessment #2 will be a part of your Do Now for this day.
Showing posts with label Creation Phase. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creation Phase. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 | Spring Exhibition Preparation
Please fill out the following form to prepare for Exhibitions of Learning coming this Spring. Make sure you make the prior arrangements with your employers to ensure you can attend the expected days. Also, as another survey for data, please take the following Survey from Anthony.
Thursday, March 16, 2017 | CREATION PHASE | Check in and Studio Time
Writing Conferences
What do you need to know to continue creation?
Guiding Questions:
What do you need to know to continue creation?
- What do you need for materials?
- What are you excited about creating?
- What scares you about this phase?
Announcements
- Review and establish daily or weekly routines before next week.
- Review, tweak, and commit to routines and ways you will document progress individually and as a group.
- Perhaps Compass Points will offer clarity on this: What is needed? What are the worries? What suggestions to people have? What are we excited about?
- Fill out the Materials Request Form for Stuart.
- Tomorrow you will fill out your first Self-Assessment of your creation phase. Next week you will be doing an evidence check based on your art form intention. Your CREATION Advisor will conference with you on where you are in your creation process.
Do Now (2 minutes)
- Mental Preparation and Material Setup (notebook and Web-Portfolio). Coordinate the day with partner(s). If time permits, starting thinking about and developing your goal for studio time today. Think ahead.
- Make sure you are in your art form group.
Do Next (5 minutes)
- Compass Points - Make this visible on a Large Post-It or piece of paper
- N: What do you still need to know? What do you need for materials still?
- E: What excites you about creating?
- W: What are you worried about in creation phase?
- S: What are some suggestions and advice you have for newbies?
Goal Setting (13 minutes)
- (3 minutes) - Completed on Studio Time Journal following Smart Goal format. Pair and Share Goals
- (5 minutes) - Goal Sharing: Quick 3-5 words
- (5 minutes) - Get set up and started based on goal. Do you understand what you need to do? Do you have any frustrations or setbacks?
Studio Time (50 minutes) Return to classroom spaces by 11:00 if working in the hallways!
- 45 minutes: Start studio time with directed purpose behind what you are accomplishing. Last 5 minutes clean up the room if studio time involved building materials or art supplies
- 5 minutes - Take time to Pair-Share your accomplishments and quick feedback before you write your reflections.
Ticket Out (5 minutes)
- Complete studio time reflections completed on Studio Time Journal sheets
- Fill out the Materials Request Form for Stuart.
Week of November 21-22 | Creation Phase Continued
After an eventful week last week, groups should be into their ritualized weeks. If your group is still working through the ritualized week, you can follow the plans as previously laid out. Blogs will come out with Announcements this week, but lesson plans will be based on the discipline group and their advisor.
Announcements:
Announcements:
- After Thanksgiving break, Molly will be checking in with you to setup Exhibitions of Learning times for venues.
- Remember to ask for the week of Exhibitions of Learning off from work: January 9th through January 12th. If you need a letter from to school or a phone call to your employer, let us know. Your advisors are your advocates and any one of us will be willing to advocate for you.
- Remember our school days are shifted on our Exhibitions of Learning days. It is your normal school hours and attendance is tracked. Please avoid scheduling any appointments during the school day (talk with your parents and remind them). Athletes must have notes from their coaches, otherwise your attendance on those nights are expected (Official hours will be clarified soon).
- Advisors will be rounding out Evidence Checks this week and entering them into Skyward. If you have clarifying questions about grades, send emails to your advisors for IDEAS Block, not Tim or Molly unless they are your advisors.
- Advisors, please make sure to mark attendance.
Monday | Professional Models
- Your group may be looking at professional models or following your own ritualized week.
- Here are a few example models:
Tuesday | Work-shopping a Project
- Workshop a single project and give valuable feedback
- Yearlong projects will be checking in with Tim during the class period (He will seek you out)
Wednesday | Teacher Records Day
- Aren't you lucky? A day off! Maybe take some time prepare for Presentations of Learning.
Thursday | Thanksgiving
- Remember to give Thanks for our school community and one another.
Friday | Black Friday
- Enjoy a day of shopping or another day to prepare for Presentations of Learning on Monday or Tuesday next week.
Thursday November 10th, 2016 | Workshopping and Extended Studio Time
Guiding Questions:
- How can sharing help develop your project further?
- What is co-creativity?
- Fill out Exhibitions of Learning Form
Announcements
- Review and establish daily or weekly routines before next week.
- Review, tweak, and commit to routines and ways you will document progress individually and as a group.
- Fill out the Materials Request Form for Stuart (If he is graciously still taking responses)
- Fill out Exhibitions of Learning Form
- Mark Attendance
- Tomorrow your advisor will be checking evidence of creation with you. Please make sure you have your evidence ready to show.
For groups with their own Ritualized Week - Follow your CREATION Advisor’s routine after looking at Announcements
Do Now (5 minutes) Prepare for Workshopping
- Prepare as though you are presenting your project today based on the evidence you have right now. What have you created thus far?
Do Next (15 minutes)
- Workshopping Method
- Circle up - Choose someone to present their project components. Take 8 minutes to present your project.
- Feedback - Others complete their feedback on a slip of paper or postit note. Write down Warm/Cool/Suggestions for feedback. Remember to keep feedback specific and think about what kind of feedback you would want. When you are done with a piece of feedback, crumple it into a ball and toss it into the middle of the circle for a Trash Talk. When the presentation is complete, everyone grab a piece of feedback from the middle and share out responses from the paper.
Goal Setting (13 minutes)
- (3 minutes) - Completed on Studio Time Journal following Smart Goal format. Pair and Share Goals
- (5 minutes) - Goal Sharing: Quick 3-5 words
- (5 minutes) - Get set up and started based on goal. Do you understand what you need to do? Do you have any frustrations or setbacks?
Studio Time (37 minutes) Return to classroom spaces by 11:00 if working in the hallways!
- 15 minutes: Start studio time with directed purpose behind what you are accomplishing. Last 5 minutes clean up the room if studio time involved building materials or art supplies
- 2 minutes: Circle up and check on progress in studio time. What did you accomplish? What are you struggling with?
- 15 minutes: Continued studio time
- 5 minutes - Take time to Pair-Share your accomplishments and quick feedback before you write your reflections.
Ticket Out (5 minutes)
- Complete studio time reflections completed on Studio Time Journal sheets
- Fill out the Materials Request Form for Stuart.
- Fill out Exhibitions of Learning Form
Monday November 7th, 2016 | Professional Models
Guiding Questions:
- What do you need to know to continue creation?
- What do you need for materials?
- What have you created already?
- What are you struggling with in this phase?
- What are you rocking this phase?
Announcements
- Review, tweak, and commit to routines and ways you will document progress individually and as a group.
- Grades are updated on Skyward with those who have completed the Exhibitions of Learning Program form. Please complete this ASAP. Tim will update grades each day based on who fills out the sheet.
- Mark Attendance
For groups with their own Ritualized Week - Follow your CREATION Advisor’s routine after looking at Announcements
Do Now (5 minutes)
- Quick Jot- Recorded in notebooks, at the beginning of a studio time journal, or on a Post-It note -
- How has the work of professionals influenced your current creation?
Professional Model (10-15 minutes)
- Professional Model Presentation and Discussion based on a Thinking routine that fits the model
Goal Setting (13 minutes)
- (3 minutes) - Completed on Studio Time Journal following Smart Goal format. Pair and Share Goals
- (5 minutes) - Goal Sharing: Quick 3-5 words
- (5 minutes) - Get set up and started based on goal. Do you understand what you need to do? Do you have any frustrations or setbacks?
Studio Time (37 minutes) Return to classroom spaces by 11:00 if working in the hallways!
- 32 minutes: Start studio time with directed purpose behind what you are accomplishing. Last 5 minutes clean up the room if studio time involved building materials or art supplies
- 5 minutes - Take time to Pair-Share your accomplishments and quick feedback before you write your reflections.
Ticket Out (5 minutes)
- Complete studio time reflections completed on Studio Time Journal sheets
- Fill out the Materials Request Form for Stuart.
Week of November 7-11 | Creation Phase & Responding to Professional Models
Research papers and revisions are still rolling back and forth between students and Language Arts teachers. This is a friendly reminder to look at Jupiter for communication about this evidence of learning.
This week, we look forward to seeing project plans, sketches, drafts, and prototypes come together. Please keep all evidence of your process. All the ideas and possibilities generated. All of the versions. Successes. Failures. All of it shows your thinking and will reveal to you (and others) how you make choices in your creative process.
The other days this week should be dedicated to moving project forward according to group norms and agreements. Please see last week's post for recommendations and reminders.
Tim and Molly will be following up on Exhibitions of Learning Vision Forms and Stuart would like Art Supply Requests.
Please check Skyward for Missing Assignments in IDEAS Block. Proposals are being graded by your Research Phase Advisors. If you have questions about IDEAS Block grades, please contact your advisors for IDEAS Block, not Molly or Tim.
Before leaving for break at the end of the week, create a plan for what you need to read, sketch, make in the next week. Your project should be part of you, not part of school, meaning it should continue despite taking a break from school.
MONDAY
- (Ritualized week Model) Professional Models
A ritualized week will be modeled for new IDEAS Block Advisors starting with professional models on Monday.
TUESDAY
- (Ritualized week Model) Work-shopping and Extended Studio Time
Workshop someone’s project as a project block
Fill out studio time journals, breaking up studio time into halves.
WEDNESDAY - Sophomores at MSOE/MIAD.
- (Ritualized week Model) Extended Studio Time
Fill out studio time journals, breaking up studio time into halves.
THURSDAY
- (Ritualized week Model) Work-shopping and Extended Studio Time
Workshop someone’s project as a project block
Fill out studio time journals, breaking up studio time into halves.
FRIDAY
- (Ritualized week Model) Feedback Friday
Gain valuable feedback on your project from someone else in the room. - Evidence Check #1 Occurs Today - IDEAS Block Advisors will look over your current evidence of creation and give you feedback based on where you are in your process.
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