Burl and I eat lunch together and I was bemoaning that one of my favorite units would be left undone, since I no longer had my original science colleague to collaborate with. Later I confided to him that the weakest part of the unit had usually been the debate, which I found particularly challenging each time. We approached Joan, who had confidence that we could elevate the nature of the discussion to the level of a true debate with a few creative touches.
The entire experience proved to be very successful and gave me such a great sense of connectedness to my colleagues and to their curriculum. Each of us took on a different part of the planning and kept the others informed along the way. Joan came up with the entire plan for the debate. She reinforced our ideas and added her own curriculum by outlining the correct process for debate and summarizing statements.
Burl handled all the details of the anatomy lessons and for the dissection labs. Burl also was a role model for sharing a lesson. He tried everything that I taught in our dance class, demonstrating that everyone could participate in the dance as well as the science and language arts classes. How does your school support you in planning this type of unit? This designation includes an arrangement that permits our arts teachers to plan with teachers in each of the three grade levels.
I have two planning periods for sixth grade and for eighth grade on our A days, and one planning period for seventh grade on B days. We also have one day reserved per semester for elective teachers to meet all day with the academic teachers to plan thematic units and brainstorm other short-term collaborations. In addition, we often have after-school sessions that give us uninterrupted time to match our curriculum and unify our learning goals.
Our school also is very helpful in giving us the necessary funds to purchase extra items needed to make the lessons go well. We have a wish fund that has been set up in the form of mini-grants through our business partner.
What goals did you have for the students in the dance part of the unit? Since I was teaching visiting classes and not just my seventh-grade dance classes, I wanted them to gain a more general understanding of anatomy as it applies to movement as well as a basic recognition of what classical ballet is and what it requires physically. I wanted them to be able to demonstrate their learning in the dissection lab as well as in the final debate.
All of the goals for dance, science, and language arts were written out very precisely. Burl designed a dissection lab guide and several quizzes to keep the students on their toes with terminology. He used informal observation techniques during my dance sessions as well as in the actual dissection process. We came up with the Two Points game, in which two students face each other and point to the bone or muscle as it is called out. Burl also had a unit test at the end of the entire experience.
What would you like to do differently next time? In the future, I would like to involve our students with some professional level dancers or exemplary students from the School of Dance at the North Carolina School of the Arts, which includes high school and college-level students.
I want our students to be able to ask questions and understand the level of physical effort and skill that is needed to be successful in this art form.
I would like our students to attend a performance after the visit with the dancers, and go behind the scenes. This would also help them to fill out their roles as members of the company staff and board of directors. And I know that some of them would develop more deeply held views on the inclusion of a frog in a ballet company after they had experienced the theatricality of ballet first hand.
Joan Celestino, Language Arts Teacher. How were students assigned to their debate teams and to their individual roles? We wanted to involve everybody in the debate, but the numbers for a debate team really need to be limited. So we created the make believe ballet company board of directors to enable all of the students to have a part.
We created roles for the students that we thought would interest them, some relating to the arts choreographer, patron, ballet master, costume mistress , others to the business of the company lawyer, financial director, CEO. I asked each student to write what role he or she would like to have, and they put their choices on cards.
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