Seeds+for+Thought+-+Big+Ideas+Overview


 * Seeds for Thought…Big Ideas **

** 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. **

__ Enduring Understanding 1 __ : understanding that life-skills like self-discipline, teamwork, and cooperation are necessary for success in the arts. __ Enduring Understanding 2 __ : __ Enduring Understanding 3 __ :

__ Essential Question 1 __ : How do goal setting, prioritizing, planning, reasoning, and responsible follow-through promote results for changing behaviors or attitudes for acquiring content mastery in the arts? __ Essential Question 2 __ : In what ways is student engagement in the arts a product of self-direction, adaptability, and management of complex arts tasks? __ Essential Question 3 __ : In what ways does practice over time contribute to purposeful, spontaneous, replicated, or reflective applications in the creative process?


 * 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. **

__ Enduring Understanding 1 (Example) __ : An understanding of the materials, structures, language, notation, and literature/repertoire of an arts form provides the opportunity for greater appreciation for works of art and the processes of creating them. __ Enduring Understanding 2 (Example) __ : Understanding the relationships among the various structural elements in dance, music, theatre, and visual art provides a foundation for creativity, as well as a departure point for creative manipulation of those structures, i.e., "breaking the rules." __ Enduring Understanding 3 __ :

__ Essential Question 1 (Non-Example) __ : How do students process the materials, structures, language, notation, and literature/repertoire of an arts form? __ Essential Question 2 __ : In what ways does technology support, impact, or justify the effective use of real-world tools in the arts? __ Essential Question 3 __ : How do problem-solving skills influence meaning and results when students identify, connect, and relate concepts through underlying elements and principles?


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

__ Enduring Understanding 1 __ : Responding to the arts requires increasing levels of analysis and synthesis for understanding and critical analysis. __ Enduring Understanding 2 __ : Student understanding of the "process" and it's value or application to the life skills used inside and outside the arts. Using/Working the "process" to gain a desired outcome. __ Enduring Understanding 3 __ :

__ Essential Question 1 __ : How do the arts create meaning and engage the student in the learning process? __ Essential Question 2 __ : How is risk-taking a characteristic of the creative process and arts purpose? __ Essential Question 3 __ : How do students use higher-order thinking skills (i.e. analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and evaluation) that contribute to high-quality results and sound reasoning?


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

__ Enduring Understanding 1 __ : Student understanding of how each part/contribution is essential to complete the "whole" picture (like one missing piece to a 500 piece puzzle keeps the picture from being complete) __ Enduring Understanding 2 __ : __ Enduring Understanding 3 __ :

__ Essential Question 1 __ : How do collaborative skills across the arts and other disciplines contribute to life-skill applications? __ Essential Question 2 __ : How does self-expression and communication contribute to cultural, visual, auditory, or kinesthetic literacy and global awareness? __ Essential Question 3 __ :


 * 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 or create new ones. **

__ Enduring Understanding 1 __ : To see students make a connection with the arts/music with an understanding of how they perpetuate a society, culture or time period. __ Enduring Understanding 2 __ : __ Enduring Understanding 3 __ :

__ Essential Question 1 __ : What individuals, groups, and cultures have helped shape the dance, music, theatre, and visual art studied in Florida schools and encountered in the larger, global community? __ Essential Question 2 __ : In what ways are the arts used to deliberately to influence individuals and groups of people? __ Essential Question 3 __ : How do the arts promote celebration of what makes people similar or different?


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

__ Enduring Understanding 1 (Example) __ : Self-assessment, as well as aesthetic and critical analysis, are central to students' growth in skills, knowledge, and creation or re-creation in the arts. __ Enduring Understanding 2 __ : __ Enduring Understanding 3 __ :

__ Essential Question 1 __ : Why is it important that creators, re-creators, and responders learn to analyze diverse works of art and performances over time? __ Essential Question 2 __ : __ Essential Question 3 (Non-example) __ : How can the processes of self-assessment and group performance assessment be used to analyze the developmental changes across emerging, proficient, or exemplary works by understanding growth in skills, knowledge, creation, recreation or responding?


 * 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. **

__ Enduring Understanding 1 __ : __ Enduring Understanding 2 __ : __ Enduring Understanding 3 __ :

__ Essential Question 1 (Example) __ : Why do people who want to reinvigorate their communities and regions turn to the arts for solutions? __ Essential Question 2 __ : __ Essential Question 3 __ :


 * 8. RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS ACADEMIC CONTENT AREAS: Dance, music, theatre, and visual art are often infused with each other and with other academic content areas. **

__ Enduring Understanding 1 (Example) __ : When there are natural connections among content areas, attempts to separate any one of them from another is to reduce them to less than whole and less than authentic. __ Enduring Understanding 2 __ : __ Enduring Understanding 3 __ :