Week 6 introduction to topics as a learning activity EDU 652
- 1. Week 6 Introduction to Topics as a Learning Activity Needs Assessment EDU 652 Instructional Design & Delivery Thomas Wilson Lisa Marie Johnson August 26, 2013
- 2. 1. What do you know? We have at the S.C. Midlands Academy for the Performing Arts this term done a different series of exercises to promote the 2 skill-set methodology which we believe is an essential part of our curriculum in our Advanced Curriculum for Percussion with Acoustic Drums. Now we will learn how much the Juniors and Seniors have learned by letting them to define the meaning of this subject which was ultimately to get them to the place where they could do basic Solo Demos (video) and now they will show their understanding by helping to design it as a topic for the underclassmen in a presentation. 2. What do you want to know? It is our objective to ascertain the level of understanding of each of our Juniors and Seniors by having them write a topic which if good enough with some editing by our Faculty advisors would be added to newly refined assignments for addition to new Music Appreciation Introduction to Percussion Curriculum. 3.What are you trying to measure, determine, or define? This is is going to be a exercise primer which we will do in an Powerpoint Format as an illustration of what they should consider in their own
- 3. Topics Exercises. We are trying to see how much of the vision of what it means to be a percussionist has developed and this is for their future in this chosen rich field of musicianship. We are doing similarly what R. Mark Leckie has done with his Active Learning Startegies, Student-active learning shifts the action from you to the students. The goal is to engage students by actively doing or thinking about a problem, rather than passively listening and/or note-taking. There are a variety of ways to engage students in classroom activities that complement the lecture material by initiating, supplementing, and/or reinforcing the content of the day. Utilizing authentic data is one way to engage students Having the learners engaged with authentic data is a key part of what we are doing in this primer for their being able to have a working template to create their own Topics Activities. They will in their turn write activities to engage their underclassmen counterparts. 4.How will you collect and record information? When they start to do their Topics Activities it will be taking in effect the place of what Mid-Terms would be in a conventional H.S. curriculum. They are learning to model the actual activities of Conservatory Graduate Students, as we are in the midst of drafting and submitting this as accredited AP coursework for our Academy to the SACS for
- 4. their approval (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools). Yet another example was work done at Lehigh University by Professor Glenn Blank, to show how Student Active Learning The goal of a class learning activity is to help students (and possibly yours truly) gain practical knowledge !about a topic or skill related to multimedia e-learning. !Bear in mind that a learning activity is more than a passive Powerpoint presentation. !You should plan on leading the class for about 10 minutes, give or take 5 minutes. If you think you need more time or a lab setting, let me know further in advance. It is emphasized by Prof. Blank that leading the class is important at The outset for the first 10 minutes in order to not allow the students to “nod off” and that it is not another “Ppt. Nap Time!” 5.How will you report the information you collect? The parents as per the policy of S.C. Midlands Academy for the Performing Arts are required to observe and participate with their learners in this activity by ensuring they are “on task” and if they are struggling to alert one of the Faculty Advisors and get tutorial assistance! It is imperative that the learner feels that they are a part of the learning process and not being left to their own devices. 6.Are all interested groups included in planning and conducting the needs assessment? The student are told that at the beginning of the term that the Curriculum of the S.C. Midlands Academy for the Performing Arts has high standards and
- 5. both the parent and student are held accountable about what they do. This is a school with a long history of academic excellence. So emphatically “YES!” all interested parties are included in every aspect of planning and conducting the Needs Assessment.
- 6. References I Engages Students with Active Learning Strategies Leckie, R. Mark (author) (Aug 2013) Univ. of Mass-‐Amhearst Mark Leckie has created several example on this site in order to give a good primer about how to setup your own Student Active Learning Curriculum http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/intro/activelearning.html II Class Learning Activities: Topics and Criteria Blank, Glenn Prof. (author) (date unknown) Lehigh Univ. Web page setup by Prof. Blank in order to show how to setup laboratory action learning with an emphasis towards Science based curriculums, the strategies are extremely similar to those of Mark Leckie, but goes into more details about possible variations upon some of the activities