Creating and Implementing Student Learning Outcomes

Office of Music and Dance Education

Sonia SynkowskiDance Resource Teacher

OutcomesParticipants will understand the basic design and use of SLOs as a measure of student growth.

Participants will increase their knowledge of Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) in order to create SLOs that are content-specific for music/dance.

Essential Components of a SLOStatement of Outcome

Rationale

Interval of Instruction

Target and Evidence

Essential Components of a SLORationale for Target

Administration and Scoring

Remember:A FINE ARTS SLO is a measure of student GROWTH over the course of the year

It is not a grade

It is not an adjudication

How do we measure student growth?What are we measuring?

What criteria are we using?

Starting with the end in mind…

Using Rubrics to Assess Student Performance

Dance Content and Literacy Assessment Rubrics

Criteria:Memory and Recall

Temporal awareness and musicality

Body awareness and control

Expressive movement quality

Dance Content

Content Rubric

Dance LiteracyLiteracy Rubric

FINE ARTS EXCEL DATA TOOL

BaselineDATA

Endpoint

DATAStudent Growth Charts

Once teachers input in all your student baseline and endpoint data into their excel file – all charts automatically populate with comparative averages for teachers to use when meeting & speaking with principals.

Questions?

Let’s take a look at the examples.

Pearl PrimusStrange Fruit

Schwartz, P. & Schwartz, M. (2011). The Dance Claimed Me. Amherst, MA: Yale University Press.

Using the Dance Content Criteria sheet, you will choose one of the poems listed on the Primus resource sheets and create a movement phrase to connect with the poem.

Work in small groups. One person will read the poem while the other people dance or everyone can share the narrator/dancer roles.

Poem choices are:Ocean by Pearl PrimusDreams by Langston HughesHands by Richard WrightTurn by Richard Wright