Summary and highlights of KET's Arts Toolkits in Music, Visual Arts, Drama, and Dance.
Text of KET Arts Toolkits Overview
Exploring the Arts Toolkits: PD workshop Presented by Missi Baker, KET education consultant [email_address] www.missibket.blogspot.com
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What are the Arts Toolkits? The Arts Toolkits are KETs response to then-Kentucky Commissioner of Education Gene Wilhoits challenge in 2000 to develop a dynamic and powerful arts and humanities toolkit that would be built from the Kentucky Core Content, Program of Studies, and Academic Expectations (2). During the 2001-2002 prototype stage, KET, KDE, the Kentucky Center, the Kentucky Arts Council, the Speed Art Museum, Stage One, and teachers from across the state who attended the summer Arts Academies all served as partners in the development of the Arts Toolkits (2).
The Arts Toolkit Series
Drama Toolkit 2(2007)
Visual Arts Toolkit (2005)
Dance Toolkit (2004)New ! Fall 2008
Music Toolkit (2007)
You should leave here today with
A thorough understanding of the materials and resources available in the Arts Toolkits
Specific dramatic, dance, and visual arts topics you want to incorporate into your classroom
Ideas for cross-curricular and/or collaborative units using the toolkits & subject-area core content
Toolkit options you want to research further
A better sense of how to communicate as a faculty in order to deliver arts and humanities core content to your students
Contents Drama 2 Toolkit
4 Drama videos or 2 DVDs (about 8 hours of video)
From Page to Stage CD-ROM
Drama Toolkit Binder with its 10 sections
4 x 6 idea cards
A shipping box that doubles as a puppet theatre
New lesson plans, materials, resources, and standards alignment
The Worlds Stage poster
www.ket.org/artstoolkit
Drama 2
Using the Toolkit
Lesson Plans
Glossary
Responding to Drama
Especially for Primary
Drama and Culture
Periods and Styles
Creating Drama
KY Drama Resources
Index
A typical Drama Toolkit lesson plan contains the following elements:
Grade level(s)
Materials
Vocabulary
Academic expectations
Program of studies
Core content
Essential questions
Length
Concept/objectives
Activities
Portfolio-appropriate writing for the lesson
Toolkit resources
Instructional strategies and resources
Additional ideas
Support, connections, and resources
Applications across the curriculum
Open response assessment and rubric
Performance assessment and rubric
Activity Time!
Wee Willie Winkie
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown, Tapping at the window and crying through the lock, Are all the children in their beds, it's past eight o'clock?
I am thinking of a word that rhymes with_____.
Drama (2003) Other pages to note . . . Section Page # Content Introduction 9-37 Unit and grade level correlations to core content Introduction 39-42 Cross-curricular resources Toolkit Resources 1-10 Toolkit videos overview Toolkit Resources 15-17 Artist directory Lesson plans 2, 189-190 List of lessons and materials
Drama 2 Other pages to note . . .
36: Lesson plan index
332-334: Student critiques of drama
353-354: Drama and special needs students
358: Funding for an artist in residence
359-360: PD opportunities
365-366: K-3 Glossary
372: Picture books about theatre
498, 500, 509: Script sources
510-511: Sample budget and rehearsal worksheets
563-572: Drama connections and the Core Content 4.0
573-576: Synopses of the featured series in the Toolkit
Drama Toolkit Copyright Policy The Drama Arts Toolkit is a coyrighted product. Printed materials may be copied for use as student handouts or in a limited fashion for sharing with other teachers (for example, copying one lesson plan to share). The Toolkit should not be copied in its entirety. The Toolkit videos, DVDs, and CD-ROM should not be copied (5).
Think behind the scenes . . .
Staging
Makeup
Costumes
Different versions of the same story
Characterization or interpretation
Promotion
Financing
Casting
Activity Time!
Expressions
Tableau
Park bench
Arts Toolkit Website: www.ket.org/artstoolkit Updates New unit and lesson plans Additional resources List serve options
Ideas to consider . . .
Have students create skits around groups of words (e.g. three words for a 4-minute skit)
Give students a generic, unpunctuated sentence (Why I didnt know that) and ask them to punctuate/perform it for different emotions/music [anger, surprise, embarrassment]
Give students an excerpt/section of unpunctuated dialogue and ask them to (1) break it into characters, (2) punctuate it, and (3) add setting and stage directions
More ideas to consider . . .
Cut out pictures of people from magazines and let students pantomime the picture while others guess who the character portrays. (use as characters)
Make a pile of shoes and have students draw one at random or have students use their shoe and tell where their shoe came from, where it has been, and why it ended up in the Discarded Shoe Pile. Works on storytelling and improvisation.
More ideas to consider . . .
Compile a box of random items, have each student draw an item out of a box. Then start a story and each student has to incorporate the item into the story in some way.
Using an ink pen, have the students pretend the ink pen is something other than and ink pen and the class has to guess what the ink pen represents (i.e. a tube of lipstick, or microphone).
Make a stack of card with each containing a different emotion (i.e. happy, sad, angry). Students have to say the letters ABC portraying the emotion.
More ideas to consider . . .
Have two stacks of index cards one with character (i.e. principal, clown, big bad wolf) Then have a stack of cards with different scenes. Students draw a scenes card and character card and create a skit.
Readers Theatre: Divide lines/segments in half with a boy reading the 1 st half, a girl the 2 nd half, or students each read a single word, or variations on different reading patterns.
Activity Time
Idea cards
Visual art project . . .
Class mural of a classic art piece, genre, or style (Draw a grid on the picture you want reproduced. Grid out a large sheet of paper or section on a wall. Students are responsible for reproducing the design in their own grids.)
Use art to reinforce parts of speech, create poetry
Use a group of pictures clipped randomly from magazines and have students create stories and/or storyboards
Exploring the Dance Toolkit
The Dance Toolkit contains . . .
4 Dance Toolkit videos or a single, 4-part DVD
DanceSense enhanced DVD
Dance Toolkit binder with its 10 sections
KDE CD-ROM (lesson plan templates, etc.)
Arts Toolkit website www.ket.org/artstoolkit
4 x 6 idea cards
Dancing Through Time, an illustrated timeline of the history of dance (extra copies of this poster can be ordered)
