Pre-assessment study cards

Question 1

Which characteristics of artful teachers contribute to student curiosity and motivation in relation to arts education?

Answer 1

Passion, openness, and confidence

Question 2

A teacher promotes taking breaks in instruction where students jump up and down, shake their limbs, and mimic animal voices.

How does this play contribute to children’s development?

Answer 2

It alleviates stress

Question 3

An art teacher has redesigned a lesson plan that includes an assignment in which students work in groups to create and present original commercials. She plans to let the groups decide what the commercials will advertise and will encourage students to use their own experiences to make effective commercials. The students will create their own schedules for completing the assignment and she has developed a rubric for evaluating the results.

How does this lesson plan align to current research findings in student development?

Answer 3

Current research shows that students learn best when they are given the opportunity to connect new information to existing understandings.

Question 4

A kindergarten teacher wants to prepare students for first grade cognitively and socially while making each day fun.

How could the teacher support this goal?

Answer 4

By having students make up rhyming games together using the names of letters, numbers, or colors.

Question 5

How can teachers recognize expressions of creativity in children?

Answer 5

Look for children who can act out a story.

Question 6

Which are two effective activities for encouraging the development of creativity in children?

Answer 6

• Have students theorize what an unfamiliar object could be used for
• Ask students to imagine a journey, such as a journey through a tree

Question 7

Which stage of the creative inquiry process is described below?
In this stage, students explore and experiment with words, ideas, and images, as well as infer, compare/contrast, sort/group/combine, and find and form patterns?

Answer 7

Connect

Question 8

A third-grade teacher would like to plan a lesson about folk tales and story telling. The teacher wants to enhance creative thought and expression in the class which includes several ELLs.

How can the teacher meet both of these goals?

Answer 8

Incorporate student storytelling related to their backgrounds as a means of including drama, dance, art, and music responses.

Question 9

What is an appropriate response to students’ artistic expressions?

Answer 9

Ask the students to explain what they have created

Question 10

A teacher observes that the students are happiest and most engaged when they are given the opportunity to engage in creative role playing, art projects, and music. The teacher includes these creative activities every few weeks as a supplement to the lesson plans.

How does this teacher’s attitude affect the creativity of his students?

Answer 10

The teacher’s treatment of creative activities as extra, not essential, will undermine the development of students’ creativity

Question 11

The Consortium of National Arts Education Associations (CNAEA) K-4 standards call for students to accurately demonstrate non-locomotor/axial movements and create a sequence with a beginning, middle, and end.

Which teaching strategy fosters creative thought and expression for students in this age group to meet all elements of the identified dance standard?

Answer 11

Implement the apply-practice-rehearse method to prepare students to perform the difficult bending and swinging dance steps in their upcoming dance routine

Question 12

A teacher wants to encourage creativity and divergent thought while also covering required content about Colonial America.

Which would be an appropriate strategy?

Answer 12

Have students brainstorm a list of important people in Colonial America, conduct research on them, and then plan a classroom party where the students dress up as and play the role of their historical person

Question 13

Which steps should a teacher take to formulate a creative learning opportunity for students who are INTRApersonal learners, according to Gardner’s multiple intelligences?

Answer 13

Assign students to go outside and create a song inspired by what they see

Question 14

While preparing a classroom, a teacher is collecting items for a learning center that will stimulate and increase creativity and exploration in kindergarten-age children.

How should the teacher effectively serve this intended purpose?

Answer 14

Provide dress-up clothes, rhythm instruments, and music CDs

Question 15

A teacher wants to engage students in an art project that will support the following learning outcome:

Students will learn to cooperate and take pride in group work.

How can the teacher accomplish this goal?

Answer 15

Have students create a mural using cutouts and paint

Question 16

To increase motor skills needed for a dance unit, a teacher adds gross motor materials to an elementary classroom.

Which two would be the most useful in increasing skills needed for dance?

Choose 2 answers

Answer 16

• A hopscotch carpet

- A side-to-side balance board

Question 17

A teacher would like to include paintings, drawings and sketches to introduce concepts of mood and perspective.

What is the earliest grade level for which these materials and this lesson plan are appropriate?

Answer 17

Seventh Grade

Question 18

A classroom teacher has made modifications to the learning environment to allow for creative expression for all students in the class.

Match each description with the modification that supports the creative expression of diverse learners.

Answer options may be used more than once or not at all.

Answer 18

Assistance - Allow students to work with a partner
Instruction - Build in more repetition through choral response
- Response - Allow different solutions as demonstration of comprehension

Question 19

How can a teacher alter the classroom to specifically support student development in the dramatic arts?

Answer 19

Create an open space

Question 20

Match the example of an arts-integrated activity with the content area.

Answer options may be used more than once or not at all.

Answer 20

Math - using a compass to draw circles while studying window designs of Frank Lloyd Wright
Science - ID parts of a plant by painting inspired by Van Gogh
LA - Listen to ot a song then write a poem inspired by it
Social studies - LEarn of adventures while learning about native americans

Question 21

How are music and mathematics interrelated?

Answer 21

The dynamics and intervals in music are like the mathematical concepts of greater than and less than.

Question 22

Which strategy could a teacher use to connect theater with reading?

Answer 22

Have students analyze a short play for plot

Question 23

A kindergarten teacher develops a lesson to teach the following standard:

Students will learn varied letter sounds.

Which arts-based learning activity can be used to meet the content standard?

Answer 23

Teach students a song that incorporates consonant letter sounds.

Question 24

A fourth-grade teacher wants to integrate a visual arts instructional strategy with reading.

Which two instructional strategies would be recommended to accomplish this goal?

Choose 2 answers

Answer 24

• Read a short biography of Pablo Picasso and draw a cubist illustration
• Examine the symbolic details in a painting by Jan Van Eyck and discuss how both artists and writers use symbols

Question 25

A sixth-grade teacher wants to integrate the arts as a tool when teaching students about the Holocaust.

How could a teacher design a learning activity that achieves this objective?

Answer 25

Act out a scene from The Diary of Anne Frank

Question 26

After learning about sound, fifth graders create clay bells using hand building techniques.

Which tool is appropriate to assess craftsmanship of student work?

Answer 26

-A rubric where criteria are based on a rating scale

Question 27

An elementary art teacher would like to create more dialogue and self-reflection in the classroom.

Which three assessment tools could be used to promote these learning outcomes?

Choose 3 answers

Answer 27

• Peer feedback
• Portfolio review
• Exhibit/performance

Question 28

A teacher wants to use a developmentally appropriate assessment of the song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” sung by a third-grade student. The teacher wants to avoid too much subjectivity.

What could the teacher include in the unit’s lessons that will help to accomplish this?

Answer 28

A discussion of criteria, ranked highest to lowest