A Concepts, Skills, and Outcomes List is a brief statement of what you, as an artist, are bringing to your residency. As you enter into the curriculum planning process with teachers, the list will help them understand what you are interested in and able to do with students. It will help you and the teacher frame both novel and realistic expectations for your work with children.
The list should have three components, each with three to ten simple, clearly stated entries. The examples below are for all fields – your list will include only your own concepts, skills and outcomes.
| Concepts are the ideals you work with in your art | ||
| Dance | Movement in dance shapes ideals and feelings | |
| Drama | I continually see the world anew through reflection on improvisation | |
| Music | Music is a structure of sounds, sort of like a house | |
| Visual Art | Part of what I know comes from analysis of nature | |
Skills are the arts-making abilities you could help children acquire |
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| Dance | Create and plan with phrases of movements Experiment with solo and groups designs Invent and identify movements for common themes |
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| Drama | Vocal and sense-memory exercises Character building from both inside and outside |
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| Music | Sing Hear, notate and compose with common sounds Invent lyrics |
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| Visual Art | Hand build with clay Draw from nature Investigate cultural meanings in artworks |
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Outcomes are possible results for children of your residency |
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| Dance | Create their own short dance from a theme or idea Learn to contribute to a group composition Understand how symbols contribute to dance |
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| Drama | Speak clearly about what they see and hear Develop unique characterizations More fully understand human feeling in stories |
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| Music | Sing sounds and call and response songs Compose with simple environmental sounds Participate as contributing members of a group |
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| Visual Art | Create objects in clay with skill and originality Present personally held ideas in drawings Plan, describe, revise, and construct a large work |
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