This is a federally granted project pertaining to the program arts in education model development and dissemination grant. Its goal is to increase student achievement in Literacy and Math through a project-based curriculum centered on Studio Thinking Habits of Mind and art into Reading, Language Arts and Math subject areas. The project site is Bruce-Guadalupe Community School (BGCS), a K3-8th grade University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee charter school located in the near south side of Green Bay, WI. The project has five objectives:
- Improve students performance in Math and Language through art
- Improve students studio practice
- Improve teachers skills on curriculum integration
- Improve students’ understanding of cultural arts
- The project follows a pseudo-experimental methodology that includes retracing and interpreting existing data of MAP tests, clinic observations of instruction and student work directed by rubrics, and teachers’ journal
Tasks and Responsibilities
- Students will participate in teacher-clinics and will participate with teachers at BGCS in parallel curriculum planning
- Students will provide instructional support to BGCS teachers during the implementation of project during Fall 2011
- Students will help in the preparation of lessons
- Students will participate in the process of reflection by taking fieldnotes in a journal
- Students will help in the assessment of BGCS