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Thurs., Mar, 6, 2008:
Arrival, dinner, introductions, sleep.
Fri., Mar. 7 , 2008:
Morning sessions, afternoon sessions evening of Shake-speare.
Sat., Mar. 8, 2008:
Morning sessions, afternoon sessions, evening music concert.
Sun., Mar. 9, 2008:
Goodbyes and departure.
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STANDARDS & EXPECTATIONS
Standards & Expectations |
Fine Arts Conference '08
Learning Standards Essentials and Expectations
The following Fine Arts Learning Standards embody the essentials we encourage and endeavor the convention to pursue with students in our various sessions and workshops. These essentials and expectations are congruent with the National Visual Arts Standards (purpose, goals, key concepts, and standards), Music Educators National Conference, Goals 2000 Content Standards in Music Education and The National Standards for Theatre Education established as part of the Opportunity-to-Learn Standards for Arts Education developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations and The American Alliance for Theatre and Education. These learning standards were developed to embrace the ACAMIS Fine Arts Educational goals as they pertain to creating, learning and exploring in the Fine and Performing Arts. As such, the organizers of the ACAMIS Fine Arts Convention ’08 believe students should be able or willingly engage themselves in the use of the following standardized skill sets throughout the convention.
Through the development of their skills and understandings in music, theatre or the visual arts, students studying the Fine and Performing arts should be able to:
- Experience different kinds of music, theatre and visual art forms.
- Understand the purpose of tools, techniques, and terminology used in the creative and productive process.
- Effectively use appropriate materials, processes and techniques to create, perform and interpret music, theatre or visual art.
- Understand the aesthetic components of music, theatre or visual art and develop aesthetic awareness.
- Develop historical and cultural perspectives in evaluating or performing.
- Develop and implement skills necessary to evaluate music, theatre or visual art forms.
I. Developing The Tools of Thought
A. Engage automaticity in skills, concepts, and processes that support and enable complex thought.
B. Construct questions which further understanding, forge connections, and deepen meaning.
C. Precisely observe phenomena and accurately record findings.
D. Evaluate the soundness and relevance of information and reasoning.
II. Thinking About Thinking
A. Identify unexamined cultural, historical, and personal assumptions and misconceptions that impede and skew inquiry.
B. Observe and analyze ambiguities inherent within any set of textual, social, physical, or theoretical circumstances raised via presentation, interpretation or creation.
III. Extending and Integrating Thought
A. Use appropriate technologies as extensions of the mind.
B. Recognize, pursue, and explain substantive connections within and among areas of knowledge.
C. Recreate the beautiful conceptions that give coherence to structures of thought.
IV. Expressing and Evaluating Constructs
A. Construct and support judgments based on evidence and procured knowledge and experience.
B. Write speak, interpret and create with power, economy, and elegance.
C. Identify and characterize the composing elements of dynamic and organic wholes, structures, and systems.
D. Develop an aesthetic awareness and capability.
V. Thinking and Acting with Others
A. Identify, understand, and accept the rights and responsibilities of belonging to a diverse community.
B. Make reasoned decisions which reflect ethical standards, and act in accordance with those decisions.
C. Establish and commit to a personal wellness lifestyle in the development of the whole self and the individual self in concert with expressed art forms.
