Ken

About the Yellow Cig Project: //** In the beginning of the year art and music educators from Fayette, Green, and Washington County’s came together, some for the second time, at the IU1 in Coal Center, PA. We formed Collaborative Inquiry Groups and began coming up with a topic to research that would benefit the arts. Our group sat around a large office table and began brainstorming what we thought would be the most influential and crucial issues. Our group (Yellow Cig) came up with a good bit of ideas but chose to go with “Careers”. We all felt that students in our areas just don’t know the careers they can do in the arts nor do they get anywhere near the proper training, education, and awareness in the arts to even anticipate the thought of a career in the arts. We are questioning if parents and students were informed about arts related careers/economic possibilities, their attitudes might become more supportive of arts activities in the community and arts programs in the schools. Our CIG came up with the hypothesis that student motivation is essential to effective learning. If students see that arts classes can lead to career/economic possibilities-would student motivation and success improve in their arts classes? To test the hypothesis, we will measure change in student attitude and motivation towards the arts. We will create a unit of study which begins with a pretest questioning the student attitudes towards the arts. We will then present and explain various arts related professions. The students will choose a career and then actually become their profession. They will research their profession; create a product and then present to the class. Each teacher in the CIG will end the project with a similar post-test which will give us data on any changes in attitude/knowledge.

// Pre and Post Tests can be found on the Yellow CIG Wiki // http://cigdb.wikispaces.com/Revised+Pre-Post+Test

// Student Job Choices can be found on the Yellow CIG Wiki // http://cigdb.wikispaces.com/Job+Choices

REFLECTION: **

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