Enduring+Understandings+or+Benchmarks?+(Due+May+21)

= ** //__Enduring Understandings or Benchmarks?__// ** =

====//Comprehending the difference between encompassing Enduring Understandings and skill specific Benchmarks is a different yet critical "way of thinking" for the NGSSS-Arts writing process. For examples of Arts EUs, please refer to The Importance of Understanding.// //Listed below are the compiled statements developed from our "Brainstorming the Big Ideas" dialogue and assignment.// //The structure and content of each statement varies. Some statements are Arts specific, some are music specific. Some statements imply psychomotor skills, some cognitive. Some statements are specific, some are general. Some could be categorized as EUs and some as Benchmarks. Please carefully read each of statements under the BIG IDEAS: //====
 * 1) //Identify which statements you believe to be encompassing EUs (Arts or Music Specific) and which you believe to be explicit Benchmarks (Music specific). //
 * //Print/save the email attachment you received. On this personal working copy, mark which statements you believe to be Enduring Understandings (EU) and which statements you believe to be Benchmarks (B) //
 * //We will use this information to begin our dialogue at the next Music Writer's Meeting. (See Schedule) //
 * 1) //As creators and responders, feel free to add additional thoughts/comments to each BIG IDEA section on this wiki page. //
 * //Click EDIT; write your comments, then click SAVE. You can also change color and font by clicking the "T and Palette" box on the left side of the editing toolbar. //

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.

· Learning in the arts is a continuum which allows people to develop throughout life. · Pursuit of new levels of understanding develops perseverance, self-discipline, self-discovery and self-directed learning. · The process of creating strengthens fundamental skills and techniques and trains the brain to focus on specific tasks. · Development of skills and techniques within an artistic lexicon fosters achievement through perseverance, reflection and collaboration. · Attentive and reflective listening is required for understanding and creating music at all levels. · The process of creating art is cyclical; allowing current actions to re-inform prior actions and influence new ones. · Students will read musical notation and perform it by clapping, singing or playing an instrument. · Understanding expressive symbols and terms allow musicians at various levels to accurately perform a piece. · Technique is a process by which musicians cultivate performance proficiency by mastering and refining simple then complex stages of execution.

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.

<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Structure in the Arts provides the foundation for learning and creativity at various levels. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Everything in life has form. Form can be interpreted and expressed through emotion, improvisation, structure, and balance. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Artists arrange discrete elements and principles to form micro and macro patterns in a sequentially flowing process. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students experiment with various forms of organization. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· All works of art are comprised of many elements; each element having its own dynamic range. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students will understand formal aspects of music. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students will understand various roles within the ensemble. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students will understand how the elements of music synthesize to create various works and how re-arranging, combining, and expanding these elements create different styles/genres of music.

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

<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> The Arts are a dynamic process that can be explored through diverse sensory experiences. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The Arts continually change as people create new works and respond to existing works. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Collaboration of a common goal cultivates creative achievement. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Creating, re-creating, and responding to art is essential to the human experience. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Creativity utilizes brain-based skills such as muscle memory, auditory awareness, pattern recognition, and perceptual awareness.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Music engages learners physically, emotionally and intellectually.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Students will acquire skills as autonomous musicians
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Students will creatively think using sound.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Students will employ various digital technologies for music creation.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Altering the performance of a piece creates a new musical experience from an existing work.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Improvisation explores the creation of music at deeper creative and expressive levels.

4__.__ __COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION__: Individual cognition, self-expression, documentation, and communication with others are central to the arts.

<span style="color: #ff3800; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Participation in the Arts fosters responsibility to self, the ensemble, and the audience. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The artistic process communicates emotions and opinions to the ensemble and the audience. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Artists employ non-verbal communication to express their vision of the world and understand the vision of others.
 * <span style="color: #ff3800; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">Elements of the Arts can be synthesized and documented as a means of communication and expression.
 * <span style="color: #ff3800; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">Every art form has a unique language used by the artist to communicate with the world.
 * <span style="color: #ff3800; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">Creating music with others requires simultaneous communication through listening and responding to oneself as well as to others.
 * <span style="color: #ff3800; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">Students will understand how the use of musical symbols, terms of expression and tempo affects how a composer intends a piece to sound and how the audience experiences it.
 * <span style="color: #ff3800; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">Each artistic part/contribution is essential to the complete "whole" picture.

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. The Arts preserve history. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The Arts reflect and perpetuate individual and societal thoughts, opinions, and culture. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The Arts are an evolving form of communication that transcend geographic barriers. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The Arts depict continuously changing social, political, cultural, spiritual and technological ideas and environments. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Understanding a culture's music helps us understand the people that created it. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students will acquire an understanding of the history of American roots music. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students will understand how representative groups of people use music ceremonially and traditionally. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students will gain insight into the directions music might go by musically responding to existing <span style="color: #10845b; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial;"> issues.

6. __AESTHETIC AND CRITICAL REFLECTION__: The arts actively engage the creator, re-creator, and responder in the processes of assessment and analysis.

<span style="color: #c936c9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Participants of the Arts engage in critical analysis and assessment to evaluate the works of self and others. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Improvement occurs through evaluation, reflection and self-correction.
 * <span style="color: #c936c9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Participation in the creative process helps develop self awareness and confidence to try new things.
 * <span style="color: #c936c9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Performers effectively expand artistic capabilities through continuous objective and subjective assessment.
 * <span style="color: #c936c9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Students will understand how a composer's inspirations and artistic motivations shape the creation of a work.
 * <span style="color: #c936c9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Students will understand why specific pieces of music are considered high quality (exemplar) and how aesthetics affect the responder.

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.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">Creativity, collaboration and procedural thinking transfer to job-related skills in the emerging workforce.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">Creating art with others helps us understand that we are part of a greater whole.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">The Arts have an economical impact on metropolitan areas.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;"> Artists simultaneously employ creative and critical thinking skills.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">Students will engage with various music professions made possible in youth culture.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;"> Students will understand which careers are available to individuals that extend beyond traditional performer/teacher roles and the type of training they would need to pursue these careers.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">Students will understand what skills are needed to make them marketable/competitive in the music based careers of an emerging economy.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">The human experience is often expressed through multiple art forms and academic areas.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">Natural connections comprehensively exist between the Arts and other disciplines.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">Music creation informs news way of thinking and learning that can be applied to all disciplines.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; msobidifontfamily: ArialmsoBidiFontFamily;">The Arts are interconnected; different situations, feelings or objects can be interpreted similarly but characteristically.