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A dance teacher is brought into a school to teach dance to fifth graders once a
week. During the teacher's residency, the principal requests the teacher create
assessments that allow students to demonstrate knowledge of and skills in dance.
How can the teacher plan assessments that accomplish this goal? Ans✓✓✓-Ask a
group of students to dance, then, when not performing, to watch other groups
dance and provide descriptive feedback of their performances
A fifth-grade class is given an assignment to read about current Supreme Court
Justices and present their findings to the class. How should the teacher design a
learning center that encourages students to plan and improvise plays based on
this assignment? Ans✓✓✓-Create an open space in the classroom and play
discussions, the chair, and teacher-in-role interviews
A fifth-grade teacher begins a unit on dance.The teacher wants students to learn
and demonstrate a variety of dance elements and styles. How can the teacher
plan a lesson to meet this objective? Ans✓✓✓-Play music without lyrics, ask
students to dance freely, stop the music and freeze the dancers, and ask each to
give a one-line explanation about which dance element they are using
A fifth-grade teacher is asked by her principal to create an activity that aligns with
the national visual arts standard,"using knowledge of structures and functions."
Which process might this teacher undertake to meet this national standard?
Ans✓✓✓-Show students a sculpture and ask them to respond to both the
message of the artist and the ways in which meaning was conveyed
A fifth-grade teacher is designing a new unit that explores the relationships
between music and the language arts. Which two learning activities would be
, appropriate to meet this goal? Ans✓✓✓-Students sing and clap in different
volume levels to spell words.
Students find examples of phrase patterns in song lyrics and classmates' names.
A fifth-grade teacher presents a unit on social dances. Toward the end of the unit,
the teacher wants to create an activity that aligns with the national standard,
"make connections between dance and other disciplines."Which process could
the teacher use to achieve this? Ans✓✓✓-Show students a dance and asked
them to respond to a dance by making a painting, creating a song, or writing
about the message it conveys
A fifth-grade teacher wants to create an exercise that employs cooperation and
collaboration as a means of using arts education to transcend the diverse
backgrounds of the students. How could the teacher accomplish this? Ans✓✓✓-
Ask students to work together on a poem and then develop it into a song
A first-grade teacher uses art for teaching children about similarities and
differences between themselves and people of different cultures. Which activity
should this teacher eliminate from the curriculum because it demonstrates
cultural bias? Ans✓✓✓-Have students color images of Native Americans wearing
feathers
A first-grade teacher wants to create a learning activity to help students develop
the basic art skills of cutting and gluing. Which two art projects would help to
fulfill this objective? Ans✓✓✓-Collage
Paper Mache