406 Class #2: Ish Your Way to Excellence!

For our second class, on Thursday, Sept. 9, 1. Welcome Read Aloud: Ish by Peter Reynolds - to prompt thinking about how excellence is impossible if we are afraid to begin and to make mistakes along the way! 2. Thought for the Day: From Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way for Parents and The Artist's Way Everyday: A Year of Creative Living. Reawaken your own sense of wonder and curiosity so that you can do the same for children! 3. Arts Strength Team Cheer - develop, practice, present. Include variety in volume, pitch, coordinated group movement, sense of celebration. Peer assessment using forms from last day. Stars and Steps to share highlights of peer assessment. 4. Reflect on the Creative Process used to create your cheer. Consider how this process relates to Bloom's Taxonomy, either the original or recently revised version. 5. Review Assignments, choose preferences to be finalized in course outline 6. Team Time - work on Presentation for Thursday 7. Readings Review: Socratic Seminar in a Fish Bowl - Arts IRP K-7 Overview, 2010 8. Witness My Fitness Challenge 9. For next class: Be ready to present on your Team's Overview and Organizers. 10. For Tuesday: Read the remainder of the IRP for your Team. Note vocabulary and concepts that a teacher unfamiliar with this art area might find difficult to teach without additional resources.