PPDP+Documentation

===**PPDP Goal #1:** **Develop a standards-aligned unit of study with rich, compelling content for future implementation in my classroom. ** ===

My unit plan began as a very rough draft, and went through many changes through discussions with my mentor, Leslie Gates. She met with me at my school, and at Panera, and we talked over Skype. She also did some major work on my first drafts with comments on my tables for standards and my rubric in Word. We emailed and emailed. Finally, this is what I came up with.

My unit plan.

[|The rubric for assessing the unit plan.]

Teaching a lesson from the unit.

**PPDP Goal #2:** **Increase student achievement by researching, developing and implementing assessment techniques in elementary art.**
Assessment is something I have been struggling with ever since I began teaching 10 years ago. I have taught in elementary and secondary settings, and assessment seemed to be less problematic to me in secondary settings. In the elementary art setting, assessment has been a huge struggle for me. By reading journal articles and books and discussing them with my mentor, Leslie Gates, and other AE 2.0 participants, I have been able to not only come up with some immediate strategies, but also identify some future solutions. My ongoing goals relating to assessment include the development of a grading system. I plan to be able to clearly communicate to my students and their families what grades in art mean. I also plan to develop a system for myself that includes performance variables, grade components, weighting and standards (absolute, relative and/or growth).

A narrative of my assessment journey.

Online discussions archived at Arts Educator 2.0’s wikispace, and other wikispaces.

Notes on my readings.

New Assessments: Examples and Evaluation.

 ===**PPDP Goal #3:** **Increase student achievement by researching, developing and implementing new methods for sharing images and visual content with my students.** ===

Working in three buildings each week presents some unique challenges. One is the ability to present high-quality images in consistently in each building. I chose this challenge as a goal to improve through my PPDP. My analysis of my current practices and reasearch led me to write a mini-grant for a digital projector that I could use in all three schools. After using the digital projector, I have made some ongoing goals related to technology in my classrooms. I have written a grant for digital cameras to be used by students. I plan to write a grant for a [|Mimio], a type of portable whiteboard to work with the digital projector.

A narrative of my current practices.

Journal Articles about sharing visual content.

Resources for sharing visual content.

Conclusions about new methods for sharing visual images.

A narrative about evaluation of new methods in my classroom.