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Dance as a Proficiency for High School Graduation
As of 2010, all Rhode Island students must demonstrate a proficiency in an art form to graduate from high school. Thanks to the hard work of dance educators, Marty Sprague and Wendy Oliver, people interested in becoming coaches and evaluators as well as teachers and parents of dance students, who want to know more about the program, are welcome to take free workshops to learn various aspects of the program.
At the RI Arts Learning Network (RIALN) website, each art discipline is posting its proficiencies, which are based on the concepts of creating, performing, and responding. Each of these three concepts has separate kinds of tasks which students must complete for proficiency. You can see RIALN for the dance proficiencies, but you need to come to at least one workshop to get a clear idea of how to coach dance students or evaluate dance portfolios.
Upon the competition of the appropriate workshop, people, who are interested in coaching or evaluating , will recieve a certificate of completion and have their names and contacts placed on a call list for possible work in the school system.
Message from Workshop Coordinator, Dr Wendy Oliver
For all interested in coaching and/or evaluating for Dance Proficiency, We would love to have you come participate! By participating in this workshop, you are providing much-needed assistance to dance education in Rhode Island. To register, please email me at woliver@providence.edu.
Workshops
Everyone is welcome to participate in either workshop, regardless of experience. There is no charge.
Evaluator Training - Portfolio Evaluation
Monday July 30, 2007
Time: 1pm to 5pm
Art & Dance study; learn how to evaluate this Common Task, created to measure proficiency in choreography
Coach Training - Creating New Tasks
Tuesday July 31, 2007
Time: 1pm to 5pm
Help create a new, generic Common Task for performance that can be used by teachers/choreographers in varied genres (i.e. ballet, jazz, modern, tap)
Background
On March 25, 1999, Governor Lincoln Almond charged a task force "to examine the relationship between education reform and the arts, and to make policy recommendations on how the arts can have a significant impact on the educational agenda of Rhode Island."
From that process evolved the high school proficiency requirements in the arts with the freshman class of 2005 being the first class required to show a proficiency in one of the arts in order to graduate. The arts chosen for proficiency requirements are visual arts, music, theatre and dance. A team of dance professionals has spent years determining the procedures for a dance proficiency and the implementation is now well under way. An important component is the training of possible coaches and evaluators, which is the purpose of these workshops.
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Proficiency Workshops
Providence College
Room 228 (2nd floor)
Smith Center for the Arts
549 River Avenue (for mapquest purposes only)
Eaton Street Gate
Providence, RI 02918
Monday July 30, 2007
Time: 1pm-5pm
Portfolio Evaluation
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Tuesday July 31, 2007
Time: 1-5 pm
Coach Training
There is no charge
For more information and to register:
Contact Wendy Oliver at WOLIVER@providence.edu
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