The Ontario Curriculum Gr' 18

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The Ontario Curriculum Gr. 1-8

• The ARTS

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The Arts Curriculum Document

• Overview of the document
• Cooperative learning activity
• exploring the music curriculum and comparing what
  is to be learned at each grade level

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The Arts Curriculum DocumentHow is the Arts
document organized?

• Introduction
• Purpose-p. 2
• Provide a rigorous and challenging curriculum in
  the arts for grades 1-8 in Ontario
• Features- p. 2
• Broader range of knowledge and skills
• Introduces many skills at earlier grades
• E.g. reading music notation in grade 4
• Insure consistency across the province
• Roles-23

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The Arts Curriculum DocumentHow is the Arts
document organized?

• Role of parents p. 2
• Support childs learning
• Become aware of what is in the curriculum
• Allow parents to better interpret their childs
  report card
• Encourages the parents to take children to
  museums, art galleries, musical performances and
  theatrical presentations

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The Arts Curriculum Document

• How is the Arts document organized?
• Role of teachers p. 3
• develop appropriate instructional strategies
• Address student needs
• Bring enthusiasm to the subject
• Provide hands on learning activities
• Provide activities that encourage creativity and
  develop artistic ability

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The Arts Curriculum DocumentHow is the Arts
document organized?

• Role of students p. 3
• apply themselves to learning the curriculum
• Learn to take responsibility for their progress
• Commit to working safely
• Commit to working well with others
• Pursue opportunities outside the classroom to
  extend and enrich their understanding of the arts
  and make it a part of their daily lives

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The Arts Curriculum DocumentHow is the Arts
document organized?

• Expectations and achievement levels-p.4
• Expectations are the knowledge and skills
  students should acquire at each grade level
• Achievement levels-level 3 means students know
  enough about the curriculum that they should have
  no trouble being successful in the next year.
• Level 4 means knowledge at an advanced level
• Levels one and two mean the students may have
  trouble meeting expectations in the next grade.
• Focus on 4 categories
• Knowledge and skills
• Understanding of concepts
• Critical analysis and appreciation
• Performance and creative work
• communication

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The Arts Curriculum Document How is the Arts
document organized?

• Importance of the arts p. 5
• Essential to students intellectual, social,
  physical and emotional growth
• Develop the ability to think creatively and
  critically
• Develop physical coordination
• Develop the ability to work independently and
  with others
• Develop the ability to express themselves in
  verbal and non-verbal ways
• Develop abilities that will be rewarding later in
  life
• Learn about their own and others cultures
• Communicate ideas and feelings in a variety of
  ways
• Learn to link their thinking and find
  relationships between subjects

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The Arts Curriculum Document How is the Arts
document organized?

• Planning student programs
• Plan programs which allow students to develop the
  fundamental knowledge and skills, appreciate
  artistic expression and participate creatively in
  the arts
• Provide direct instruction and allow students to
  apply what they know in structured and
  unstructured activities
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to other areas
  of the curriculum
• Examine the ways in which the arts play a role in
  their lives

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The Arts Curriculum Document How is the Arts
document organized?

• Attitudes in the arts p. 6
• Attitude of both students and teachers have a
  significant effect
• Teachers must project a positive attitude
• Promote positive attitudes by teaching about
  careers in the arts and noting the relevance and
  value of what they are learning to their lives
  and society.

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The Arts Curriculum Document How is the Arts
document organized?

• The Arts for Exceptional Students p. 8
• Expectations should be modified as in all other
  subjects to meet the needs of exceptional
  students
• Parents should be fully informed about the
  modifications at the IPRC meeting and these
  should appear on the IEP record of the child
• Teachers need to provide appropriate instruction,
  activities, assignments, resources, materials,
  assessment and evaluation procedures for special
  needs students

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The Arts Curriculum Document How is the Arts
document organized?

• Achievement levels p.8 9
• Music-
• Overview p. 10 11
• Each grade is organized under the following
  headings
• Overall expectations
• Specific expectations-
• knowledge of the elements
• creative work
• critical thinking

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The Arts Curriculum Document

• Grade 1 p. 12 13
• Grade 2 p.14 15
• Grade 3 p. 16 17
• Grade 4 p. 18 19
• Grade 5 p. 20 21
• Grade 6 p. 22 23

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The Arts Curriculum DocumentCooperative Learning
Activity

• There will be 6 groups- one for each grade.
• Each group will have a materials collector, a
  recorder, a mentor, 2 or 3 group members and a
  presenter
• Materials Collector
• Come and get
• some markers and a sheet of chart paper
• hang up your sheet for presentation on the front
  board
• return documents and markers at end of session

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The Arts Curriculum DocumentCooperative Learning
Activity

• Recorder
• On the chart paper, record your groups
  information for your grade level under the
  following headings
• Pitch
• Timbre
• Rhythm/Beat
• Form
• Texture
• Dynamics
• Creative work
• Critical Thinking

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The Arts Curriculum DocumentCooperative Learning
Activity

• Group Leader (Mentor)
• Help your group organize the information in the
  document under the above headings.
• Group Members
• Analyze the document for the above information
  and help your group create the chart and hang it
  up.
• Presenter
• Present your groups information to the larger
  group.

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The Arts Curriculum Document

• In this class we have
• Had an overview of the document
• Completed a Cooperative learning activity
  designed to
• explore the music curriculum and compare what is
  to be learned at each grade level.