Janice, who I liked a lot when I got to know her, did not prove as helpful as I had hoped. “Look at the breakdown of the standards I gave you, and evaluate the piece of art on those” “But it’s not a piece of art, it’s a weather chart and a poorly done one at that!” “If you look closely it probably meets something in the standards.” Stressed out I went back and forth for several days, destroyed my nails biting them, and drove my husband to distraction before grudgingly awarding Standard 1.1 at a 1, only justifying it because it was his personal intention. That is a decision I still question to this day.
Content Standard 1: All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.
Standard Explanation Unpacking
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After sending the evaluation back to my mentor, I waited anxiously for her reply. “Have you looked through all the standards on this Deb? Can you give feedback as to why the Researcher did not receive more standards?” “Ava this is not a piece of art, it’s a science project. Simon scribbled what color he has, not even staying in the lines he drew, it looks like it was done by a third grader, his spelling is atrocious, and there is nothing here that says this was intended to be a piece of art.” “As an art expert you do not worry about his spelling or grammar, you only look at his artwork. I’d like you to contact Janice and talk it over with her.”
I did contact her and she said look at the standards I gave you. “Ok, I’ll send it to her and see what she thinks.”
Once again I contacted Janice, this time forwarding Ava’s request for her to look at it. There were periods in the first month and a half that I thought, “I can’t do …show more content…
Increased workloads for no more pay, having to make projects easier for Researchers, and despite being told we would be paid for developing projects, being required to make them at the unpaid monthly meetings. These were the little things that built into a mountain of
Content Standard 1: All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.
Standard Explanation Unpacking
1.1
Apply …show more content…
After sending the evaluation back to my mentor, I waited anxiously for her reply. “Have you looked through all the standards on this Deb? Can you give feedback as to why the Researcher did not receive more standards?” “Ava this is not a piece of art, it’s a science project. Simon scribbled what color he has, not even staying in the lines he drew, it looks like it was done by a third grader, his spelling is atrocious, and there is nothing here that says this was intended to be a piece of art.” “As an art expert you do not worry about his spelling or grammar, you only look at his artwork. I’d like you to contact Janice and talk it over with her.”
I did contact her and she said look at the standards I gave you. “Ok, I’ll send it to her and see what she thinks.”
Once again I contacted Janice, this time forwarding Ava’s request for her to look at it. There were periods in the first month and a half that I thought, “I can’t do …show more content…
Increased workloads for no more pay, having to make projects easier for Researchers, and despite being told we would be paid for developing projects, being required to make them at the unpaid monthly meetings. These were the little things that built into a mountain of