STEM + ARTS could CREATE a HEAD of STEAM! (Megan Schraubren)

Project: St. Clair Hub Company: Michigan STEM Partnership

Megan Schrauben posted a new message: MI Arts Public Review--see how it could relate to STEM Please consider providing another perspective for the public review of the MI Arts Education Instruction and Assessment Program Instructional Blueprint.  It is available for public review until June 30, 2013.  This is particularly important to share with administrators in your districts.  As a STEM instructor, the arts have been using performance expectations for a long time—the documents that this group will be presenting and the research they are drawing upon may give you some other ideas as you transition to performance expectations.  In the MI Arts documents, we refer to this artistic process as involving three pieces:  create, perform, and respond.     The link to the documents and the survey can be found on the wiki that is listed below.  When you access that link, scroll down to about the middle of the page for the link to the public review materials.     Thanks,     Megan Schrauben   Integrated Education Consultant, Curriculum & Instruction   Michigan Department of Education   Office of Education Improvement and Innovation   John A. Hannah Building   608 W. Allegan Street   P.O. Box 30008   Lansing, MI  48909   Phone:  517-335-3199   Twitter:  @meganschrauben     Eating a healthy school breakfast provides students Fuel for Learning…and Health for Life.   For information and resources on school breakfast go to www.michigan.gov/schoolnutritionand “click” on the School Breakfast Program link in the program information category.         Inviting Public Review of the MI Arts Education Instruction and Assessment Program Instructional Blueprint - May 23, 2013        The MAEIA Blueprint Writers have completed Draft 1 of the MAEIA Instructional Blueprint.   This document describes a gold standard arts education program K-12 across four disciplines.  The document is currently being reviewed by the MAEIA In-depth Reviewers. The public is invited to review Draft 1 using an e-survey and PDF of the draft document. The purpose of the MAEIA Instructional Blueprint, an accompanying audit tool and subsequent assessment specifications and prototypes will result in resources intended to provide a roadmap for voluntary program improvement and enhancement in the state of Michigan.  Arts education assessments will be developed in Years 2 and 3 of this project. The MAEIA project will align with National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS)in order to reflect and support the current national revision of National Standards for Arts Education and will reflect the expectations contained in the MI Arts K-12 Grade Level Content Expectations. MAEIA is coordinated by the MI Assessment Consortium and through the MAEIA Project Management Team.       MAEIA Wikispace:  mi-arts.wikispaces.com