Welcome to your class portfolio!! The purpose of this site is to show CAPE the development of your arts integration partnership, as guided by your big idea and inquiry question. 

Make sure you have the following:

1. Planning Form: You must fill out the planning form by February 15th

2. Evaluation: Upload your pre/post/mid assessment findings

3. Reflection Questions: Make sure you have your reflection questions filled out for each semester

4. Class Documentation: Include your best documentation with captions. Note about videos: upload videos to your designated folder (click on link here), and then embed the video on this page by clicking "Drive" (under "Insert") on the right-hand side menu, then selecting your video from that folder under "Shared with me." 

IMPORTANT: 

• Please do not edit any other pages other than this, your class' page!

• Please make sure that all media that you upload only displays students whose parents have given consent to their documentation through the signed Media Release Form. Should you upload images of a student who has not given their consent to be documented, please make sure to blur their face.

What is the context of your students, families, school, school neighborhood, or classroom that informed your class focus? Please include a specific example of how you brought that context to a project/ activity!

The context for our class was Sanctuary. We wanted to create a space for students to want to come and participate week after week. We took student input seriously while still including a structure for projects. We wanted them to be excited about what they were making and feel that their ideas and interests would be heard. One project was to adopt a scene from a movie or a TV show. Students were tasked with learning storyboarding, and the goal of adopting a scene made sense to them. We tried to make the technical aspects accessible and interesting. 

Describe your class focus: which art and non-art (academic, SEL, cultural, etc) content did you integrate into your project(s)?

Our class focused on bringing students’ cultures and favorite movie ideas or stories to life, allowing them to explore new forms of filmmaking and animation while building on their previous knowledge and experiences. Collaborating on projects allowed them to listen to each other's ideas and compromise.

What did you learn about how you teach?

I've learned this semester to be able to pivot. Some students were eager to move on to filmmaking after animation, so we skipped the next project and went into the infomercials project. 

Look back at your planning form and the skills you listed out that students would learn– provide an example of a project you did with students and how it developed some of those skills

Students learned leadership and initiative when they took on filmmaking roles. We would choose who would be in the director role and they had to rely on those roles. With the energy of 5th graders, this helped keep them on track. While the infomercial project was more collaborative, for the adopting a film project, they learned more about roles and camera angles. 

Artistic skills: they learned what goes into telling a story and different filmmaking tools that help to achieve the message of the story. By breaking down the film they were adopting, they were able to recognize the camera shots and angles that they had previously learned. We challenged them to pick one and that was enough for them to try something new. 

Technical skills: they learned storyboarding by adopting a scene from a movie. Once they had a plan, then they could adopt it into their own vision. They also learned how to employ camera movement with the help of a tripod as well as focusing the camera.