Curriculum in Cultural Context

Artistic Literacy

Visual Literacy

What Is Visual Literacy?

Visual literacy is the ability to derive meaning from images of everything that we see. It's a form of critical thinking and is important for people in every field.

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Creating Curriculum in Cultural Context Workshop

This workshop is designed for K-12 Arts & Non Arts Teachers to develop high quality curriculum and learning experiences In and Through the Arts aligned with state and national standards that address the cultural and artistic diversity of communities across Minnesota, the United States and the world.

Logistics

Designed for K-12 Arts & Non Arts Teachers to develop high quality curriculum and learning experiences In and Through the Arts aligned with state and national standards that address the cultural and artistic diversity of communities across Minnesota, the United States and the world.

Participants will work with Perpich Outreach Staff & Consultants to:

experience interactive model lessons and facilitated dialog that reflect a variety of cultures including Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.
share and receive feedback on existing curriculum and resources with
examine, revise and develop new ways to integrate resources into their programming.
identify learning goals and appropriate implementation of benchmarks which address a variety of cultures including contributions of MN American Indian tribes and communities
Ask questions and create some next steps for revising and/or developing new culturally and artistically diverse curriculum

Agenda

April 29, 2015

9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Gathering and Registration

Introductions, Welcome, and who is in the room? (15 minutes)

The Danger of a Single Story Chimimanda Ngochi Adichie – View and Reflect

- Making Connections: How do you know what you don’t know? Using a cultural lens for

standards alignment, curriculum and assessment

- National Standards & Common Core

- Introduction to Perpich Library Resources as curriculum resources

Lunch

Break out sessions: Compare and Contrast resources which reflect a variety of cultures including Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities

- Lyz Jaakola – music in cultural context

- Jeremy Holien – visual and media arts in cultural context

- Diane Aldis – dance in cultural context

- Leah & Barbara Literacy – theater, text – fiction – non-fiction in cultural context

- Darlene St. Clair – cultural resource

Work time: Curriculum development; Review and Select Resources

(Lyz, Jeremy, Diane, Leah, Barbara and Darlene circulate)

Sharing out ideas

Adjourn

Session Resources:

The danger of a single story

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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Reading Skills & Descriptive/Critical Response Document

Alignment between Descriptive Review/Critical Response Protocols and reading skills.

Critical Response & Descriptive Review Documents

For more information regarding Critical Response and Descriptive Review protocols, please see the above link. At this location, you can download and print these documents.

The Value of Starting with Respond Protocols BEFORE Making Art

Here is a clip that shows Alston, a student applying the use of Critical Response to the "chicken" painting at the Weisman Art Museum. If you view this clip you will see the transformative learning that happens when we build in inquiry-based learning strategies to culturally relevant curriculum and grant sessions. See the clip here. Additional information about how this work can be included within artful writing is located here. In regards to the MN Academic Standards related to this content, it does not require students to make art. It asks them to respond. Critical Response holds great value in allowing the space for students to more deeply investigate works art and has merit as a form of study PRIOR to any creating of art that might be connected to a variety of cultures.

Critical Response with Laura Youngbird's Artwork

Want a direct link to the Critical Response Presentation that I referenced about Laura Youngbird's work? Then feel free to download your own copy in PDF, Apple Keynote, or Microsoft PowerPoint versions here. You can also check out a video done by Pioneer Public Television about her work and techniques in the video below.