Dance+AQ+Summer+2015

**1.1** **Designing down and Addressing Challenges in Assessment & Evaluation Policy** 1. View: Understanding by Design: Overview of UBD & the Design Template 2. Read: Seven Practices for Effective Learning by Jay McTighe and Ken O'Connor. 3. With reference to your own content area, how might or have you designed a unit that focused on essential questions? What were these or might they be? What information in this slide show and/or article might you use to support your department in refining its assessment practices? 4. Post your reflection to the Discussion forum.

**1.2**

Addressing Challenges in Assessment & Evaluation policy 1. Peruse the Evaluation component of [|Growing Success]. On your own, identify those aspects of policy that you and/or your department/school consider most challenging to implement. 2. On January 8, 2008, Dr. Douglas Reeves delivered the keynote address at the Ontario Assessment and Evaluation Symposium. In this excerpt, he describes "toxic grading practices" such as: assigning a grade of "0" for late/incomplete work; using the average to determine a grade.” View and reflect on a challenge that Reeves makes to the dominant understanding of zeroes &/or lates. 3. “So what? Now What?” Considering the keynote and informed by your understanding of the evaluation component in Growing Success, reflect on these guiding questions: 4. Post your response to the guiding questions and respond to one other colleague.
 * What ideas from Reeves you find most useful with reference to evaluation?
 * What ideas from Reeves are most challenging –and why?
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">What specific future actions are needed to implement these ideas across your department or school?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**4.1**

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">** __Using and applying technology__ ** <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Modeling the BYOD movement** <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Advocacy Video Project** <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Produce an original 1- 2-minute dance advocacy video <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Use available technology (iPad, iPhones, tablets, video cameras, etc//__)__// to collect and edit footage from your classrooms. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Post your original video on YouTube so that it can be loaded in class to present to your colleagues (put private settings on your account) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">*Follow school/board protocols for recording students in your class. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**//Note://**
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Target audience: Parents, administrators, grade 8’s visiting your school on a tour, etc.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Focus of video:
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Importance and significance of dance education and the impact on learning
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Transferable skills learned in dance
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">How dance supports 21st Century Learning skills
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Use on line tutorials if you have never edited a video before (there are many user friendly apps for devices).
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">View Pulse Dance Conference documentaries to see templates of dance advocacy videos.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">*Follow school/board protocols for recording students in your class.

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 * __Instructional Technology in the dance class__**
 * 1) Create an edited video or Prezi to introduce the context and history of a dance form you will be exploring in one of your dance classes this year.
 * 2) Use the internet to find your sources.
 * 3) Import clips into a Prezi, Movie Maker or iMovie and begin arranging your video clips, add title cards, transitions, music, etc.
 * 4) Check for copyright limitations and search within Creative Commons with all video material you take from the internet.
 * 5) Cite all video clips used for the video.