Lesson Proposal Form
Author:
Affiliation (e.g., school, organization):
Email Address:
Lesson Title:
Lesson Overview:
Targeted Grade Bands:
Arts Subject(s) Addressed:
Other Subject(s) Addressed:
Standards:
Arts Standards Addressed
Other Standards Addressed
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Instructional Objectives:
Students will…
Short Description of Lesson Activities:
Assessment
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Rubric
Test/Multiple Choice or True/False
Journal/Written Material/Essay
Performance-Based
Critique of Product
Teacher Assessed
Self-Assessed
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Other (Explain)
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Handouts
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Louisiana Lesson Plan Initiative:
Guidelines for Lesson Proposal Form
ARTSEDGE, the K-12 education portal for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
is launching a special solicitation for original, arts-integrated lesson plans from Louisiana school
teachers and teaching artists. Integrated lessons must address and cite standards in two or more
subject areas – at least one of which must be an arts subject. Special consideration will be given
to lesson plans that make effective use of Louisiana-specific arts and cultural heritage. Accepted
lesson plans will be posted for national distribution on the ARTSEDGE website. Proposals for
lesson plans to be considered under this initiative are due by 9 a.m. EST on Monday, March 31.
For examples of completed lesson plans please review the Teach section of the ARTSEDGE
website: Lesson plan proposals should follow the attached template and guidelines. Applicants
will be notified by 5 p.m. EST on Monday, April 14 as to whether they will be invited to submit
full lesson plans. Upon completion and acceptance, writers of full lesson plans will be provided
an honorarium of $250. Questions and completed proposals can be directed to Ramien Pierre
(rrpierre@kennedy-center.org) 202-416-8894.
Lesson Title:
The title of the lesson should reflect the content of the instructional plan.
The best titles are concise and catchy.
Lesson
Overview:
Provide a concise description of the lesson. This is first text users of the
site will read when exploring ARTSEDGE lessons. Therefore, it should not
only provide an accurate description of what the lesson entails, but it
should also pique the interest of site users.
Using clear language, summarize what students will learn and accomplish
in the instructional plan. Please limit yourself to one paragraph.
The blurb should reveal the arts-integrated nature of the lesson. It should
touch upon the ideas, themes and/or skills explored in the arts subject
AND the other subject area.
Targeted
Grade Bands:
Select the appropriate grade band: K-4, 5-8, or 9-12.
If you wish to target grade(s) within the band, add the following sentence:
“This lesson is particularly suitable for students in grade(s)…”
Arts Subjects:
Indicate which of the following arts subjects are addressed in this lesson:
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Visual Arts
Music
Theatre
Dance
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Select as many that apply, but only pick subjects that are the focus of the
lesson—not those that are tangentially included.
For example, if teaching a lesson on the Underground Railroad, merely
showing Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series, for example, does not mean
that the lesson addresses visual arts as a subject. However, if the
paintings are analyzed and the instructional objectives include the
interpretation of artworks, then the lesson does address visual arts as a
subject. For each subject area you choose, you must provide an
accompanying standard.
Other
Subjects:
Select all subjects that are explored in the lesson. Note that you must
provide a corresponding standard for each subject chosen.
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Instructional
Objectives:
Foreign Language
Language Arts
Mathematics
Physical Education and Health
Science
Social Studies (includes History, Geography)
Instructional objectives are used to guide the Instructional Plan and state
the purpose of the lesson. It should also reflect the ideas present in the
standards. Whether or not the student reaches these goals will be
ascertained in the assessment.
Please ensure that the objectives address skills and/or concepts taught in
the arts as well as other disciplines.
Begin with “Students will:” then provide a bulleted list of objectives, each
of which must start with an action verb (in lower case) and end with a
period. See "Appendix A: Verbs for Instructional Objectives" for a list of
verbs that will help you formulate the learning objectives.
Instructional objectives should:
 state what students should know or be able to do by the end of the
lesson.
 be clear and attainable.
 be student oriented/centered.
 be observable.
 focus on what the student will learn, not what the lesson or teacher
will do.
 be measurable.
Assessment:
Please explain how the students are assessed and/or graded. There
should be some type of logical, appropriate assessment for the lesson that
checks for student understanding of the learning objectives.
Where possible, embedded assessments should be included throughout the
instructional plan. Refer teachers back to these earlier assessments in
conducting their overall assessment of student learning.
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Appendix A: Verbs for Instructional Objectives
When writing instructional objectives, please avoid using verbs that denote actions
that cannot be assessed, such as “understand”, “know”, and “learn.” Instead,
choose one of the following action verbs:
acquire
discuss
organize
tell
analyze
arrange
distinguish
document
pass
plan
test
trace
articulate
assemble
draw
empathize
point
practice
transfer
translate
assess
associate
employ
estimate
predict
prepare
treat
update
calculate
choose
examine
exemplify
prescribe
prioritize
use
utilize
cite
classify
experiment
explain
produce
propose
validate
visualize
collect
express
question
write
combine
extrapolate
quote
compare
formulate
rank
complete
generalize
rate
compose
grade
read
compute
identify
realize
consider
illustrate
recite
construct
indicate
recognize
contract
infer
recommend
contrast
inspect
record
count
integrate
reflect
create
internalize
relate
criticize
interpolate
repeat
critique
interpret
report
debate
inventory
restate
decide
judge
review
deduce
list
revise
define
listen
schedule
demonstrate
locate
score
describe
manage
select
design
massage
separate
detect
match
sketch
determine
measure
solve
develop
modify
specify
diagnose
name
state
diagram
operate
summarize
differentiate
order
tabulate
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