Foreword by: Beth Lambert
Publication Date: October 30, 2020
Pages: 224
Teacher as Curator provides a roadmap for using creative strategies to engage both educators and students in the learning process. Focusing on key qualities of culturally and linguistically responsive arts learning, chapters specifically demonstrate how arts integration strategies and formative assessment can be a catalyst for change in the classroom. Readers will be inspired by teachers and practitioners who have donned the role of curator to achieve significant results. Kindergarten–college educators will find research-based protocols and practices that they can translate into any educational setting. In digestible chapters, this resource provides a theoretical base for building artistic literacy into the curriculum and for developing multimodal opportunities for students to demonstrate their understanding of content.
Book Features:
Lisa Donovan is a professor in the Fine and Performing Arts Department at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Sarah Anderberg is director of the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association’s Statewide Arts Initiative. Lisa Donovan has received the 2021 Arts|Learning, a state advocacy agency for arts education, Irene Buck Service to Arts Education Award.
“Through seven chapters, (Donovan and Anderberg) offer numerous creative assessment strategies for suggested incorporation into the classroom for culturally responsive learning. The case for the process of curation and arts-based strategies in formative assessment provides a deeper understanding of the creative process for all learners.”
—CHOICE
“In Teacher as Curator: Formative Assessment and Arts-Based Strategies, Lisa Donovan and Sarah Anderberg deepen the artistry of teaching and offer methods for collecting and curating evidence of learning. By focusing and documenting decisions made in the classroom, the authors show the importance of mapping progress and sharing what really happens throughout a lesson sequence. The authors truly believe in the expertise of educators, and this book is about heightening and broadening that expertise. As those of us at the policy level work to realize a vision for innovation and creativity to transform our current education system, I am so grateful to these authors for elevating teacher and student voices and valuing the deep expertise of the educators whose partnerships are critical to our success.”
—Beth Lambert, director of innovative teaching and learning, Maine Department of Education
“Lisa Donovan and Sarah Anderberg's Teacher as Curator is a game changer. Their key focus on the roles that arts integration, creativity, and culturally relevant teaching play are crucial to our educational context. I especially found their emphasis on documentation, evaluation, research, and assessment wonderfully helpful in providing teachers and future teachers with tools to better their practice. The learning stories from the field are chock full of inspiration. I am really excited about this book—it is an important contribution to the field of education as a whole.”
—Merryl Goldberg, professor, California State University San Marcos
“Drawing upon the role of curators in museums who collect, document, and reflect on artifacts, Donovan and Anderberg argue effectively that applying curatorial practices to arts-integrated teaching and learning can result in creative lesson design and formative assessment methodologies that meet the needs of all learners.”
—Martha Barry McKenna, university professor and director, Center for Advanced Professional Studies, Lesley University
Contents (Tentative)
Foreword Beth Lambert vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Arts-Integrated Learning and Creativity 1
Creativity in Our Schools 1
Arts Integration 4
Arts as a Means of Formative Assessment 7
Influence of Pedagogical Research 9
Blending Theory and Practice: A Journey Through This Book 11
1. A New Lens for Assessment 13
Reframing Assessment 13
Authentic Assessment 15
Reflective Practice 19
Creative Assessment Linked with the Arts 21
Instructional Design 24
We Are the Change 25
2. Culturally Relevant Arts Teaching, Learning, and Assessment 28
What Is Culturally Relevant Teaching? 29
A Focus on Diverse Students 32
Arts and Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning 34
Reflecting on Practice 38
Creating a Positive Environment for Learning 38
3. Teacher as Curator 43
The Art of Curation 43
Building Curation Skills 49
Curation as Part of Formative Assessment 50
4. Deepening the Lesson Plan 56
Lesson Planning 56
Lesson Design 61
Eight Curatorial Lenses for Reviewing and Deepening a Lesson Plan 71
Reclaiming Lesson Plans 78
5. Curation Maps: Tracing the Journey 80
Activating the Curation and Mapping Process 81
Understanding the Curation Map 84
Creating Curation Maps 89
Curation Leads to Insight 104
6. Learning Stories: Voices from the Field 106
The Learning Story 106
Story Examples from Teachers 110
Final Thoughts 132
7. Creative Assessment Strategies 134
Strategy 1: Altered Text 135
Strategy 2: Collage 139
Strategy 3: Dialogue Poem 144
Strategy 4: Movement Phrase 148
Strategy 5: Role-Play 154
Strategy 6: Soundscape 160
Strategy 7: Storyboard 165
Strategy 8: Tableau 170
Conclusion 179
The Arts as Verbs in the Classroom 180
The Artistry of Teaching 180
Key Nuggets 181
Meaningful Learning Experiences 182
References 185
Index 197
About the Authors 207
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