Taught by Kathleen Blake
Description
This APSI will cover the College Board® Art and Design Course and Exam Description (CED) as we discuss each section and consider planning for the course to include the requirements for writing a year-long syllabus. The College Board’s policy—Diversity and Inclusion & Equity and Access—will be a foundation as we consider instructional strategies that will help recruit and retain all types of students, and carry them to successful outcomes. Various instructional strategies will be discussed, experienced, and brainstormed for teaching the course, including content and skills as described in the CED.
We will also look into the offerings of AP® Classroom, AP® Daily, AP® Central and other resources while generating ideas of integrating these resources into lesson plans for students’ and their learning. We will look at the College Board® Instructional Planning Report that identifies students’ strengths and weaknesses to reflect on instruction in the classroom. There will be group activities as well, using the rubrics to score student samples for the two sections of the portfolio, Selected Works & Sustained Investigation. The Teacher Community will be shared as a super resource for ideas, questions, and answers.
With the intention of understanding the students’ perspectives, teachers will experience activities and develop questions that lead them to their own inquiry-based personal, mini-sustained investigation. Studio time will include individual, hands-on, making-art that allows each teacher the time and opportunity to investigate materials, processes and ideas. Application of research, experimentation, practice, revision, writing and reflection will be the final outcome for each teacher, in order to better understand the Big Ideas of the course, including Essential Questions, Enduring Understandings, Learning Objectives and Essential Knowledge
Schedule
Monday, Day 1
Understanding the Course
- The Making of the Curriculum/Understanding by Design
- Visual Journaling as Part of the Process
- College Board® - Equity and Access/Culturally Responsive Teaching/Broadening Access Ethics, Artistic Integrity, Understanding Bias
- Artificial Intelligence and the AP® Program Policy
- Course Overview
- Big Ideas / Essential Questions/Enduring Understandings
- Learning Objectives and Essential Knowledge
- Art and Design Course and Exam Description (CED)/Course Framework
- AP® Course Skills, Goals, and Terminology
- Sustained Investigation/Terminology/Rubrics Summary
- Question Formation Techniques/Inquiry and Investigation - How to be Inquisitive
- Considering Research for the Sustained Investigation
- Teacher Studio Time/the development of a Sustained Investigation Inquiry
Tuesday, Day 2
Planning & Teaching the Course
- Course Exam Structure - Overview
- Research and the Sustained Investigation
- The CED - a Closer Look
- The Importance of Documenting Artwork along the Way
- Layering / Synthesis of Materials, Processes, and Ideas
- How Practice, Experimentation, & Revision lead to Synthesis of Materials, Process, & Ideas
- Syllabus Curricular Requirements
- Burning Questions Online form
- Teacher Studio Time – Inquiry Questions/Mind Mapping and Making Art
Wednesday, Day 3
Assessment/Scoring/Course Resources
- AP® Classroom & AP® Daily
- Selected Works and Sustained Investigation Overview
- Portfolio Exam Overview
- Scoring Breakdowns/Understanding the Rubrics
- Burning Questions Online form
- Teacher Studio Time/Making Art - The development of a Sustained Investigation
Thursday, Day 4
Assessment & Understanding
- Assess and Reflect/Interpreting Data from the Exam/Score Reports
- Additional AP® Classroom/AP® Daily and Use in the Classroom
- AP® Teacher Community – Becoming a member
- Sample Scoring using the Rubrics
- Burning Questions Online form
- Teacher Studio Time/Making Art - The development of a Sustained Investigation
Friday, Day 5
Reflect/ Connect/ Wrap up/ Share Teacher Sustained Investigations
- Additional Contemporary Artists as Resources
- More Sample Scoring using the Rubrics
- AP® Student Exhibit/As a learning tool Classroom Activity/Resource
- Final Online Reflection Form
- Presentations – Teacher Studio Time -Shared Sustained Investigation Artwork