IV. Appendix
Glossary
ADS: Artist Description Sheet created by participant students in Lesson 3 and attached to each art piece submitted as part of the Rainforest ArtLink program.
Cross-Cultural: Relating to or involving two or more different cultures or countries.
Culture: Culture refers to the total way of life for a particular group of people. It includes what a group of people thinks, says, does and creates – its customs, language, material artifacts and shared systems of beliefs and values.
Cultural Norms: Behavior patterns that are typical of specific groups. Such behaviors are learned from parents, teachers, peers and many others whose values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors take place in the context of their own organizational culture.
Docent: A person( student) who acts as a guide in a museum, art gallery or exhibit. Origin: from Latin docent- ' teaching ', from docere‘ teach’.
Enduring Understandings: Statements summarizing important ideas and core processes that are central to a discipline and have lasting value beyond the classroom. They synthesize what students should understand- not just know or do- as a result of studying a particular content area.
Ecosystem: An ecological community together with its environment, functioning as a unit.
Environment: The air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time.
Essential Questions: Questions which set the focus for the lesson or unit, are initiators of creative and critical thinking and are conceptual commitments focusing on key concepts implicit in the curriculum.
Gallery Walk: Students explore multiple images that are placed around the room. Teachers often use this strategy as a way to have students share their work with peers or respond to a collection of pieces. Because this strategy requires students to physically move around the room, it can be especially engaging to kinesthetic learners.
Global Competency: The capacity and disposition to understand and act on issues of global significance(“ Educating for Global Competence,” Asia Society, 2011).
Interconnectivity: A concept that is used in numerous fields such as cybernetics, biology, ecology, network theory, and non-linear dynamics.
The concept can be summarized as:“ all parts of a system interact with, and rely on, one another simply by the fact that they occupy the same system, and that a system is difficult or sometimes impossible to analyze through its individual parts considered alone”.
Introspection: A reflective looking inward; an examination of one ' s own thoughts and feelings.
Learning Outcomes: Statements that describe significant and essential knowledge that learners have achieved, and can reliably demonstrate at the end of a course or program. In other words, learning outcomes identify what the learner will know and be able to do by the end of a course or program.
Pair Share: An instructional strategy to promote individual, small group, and whole group learning and discussion. Students are given a topic which they think about individually. Then they pair with a partner and discuss what each other was thinking. Finally, they share their ideas on the topic with the entire class.
Parable: A short story that teaches a moral lesson.
Program ID #: Unique number provided by Creative Connections to identify a participant class during the duration of the Rainforest ArtLink Program.
Stereotype: A standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment.
Turn and Talk: Students turn and talk to a partner about what they have just heard or read, or to discuss their answer to a teacher’ s question. It gives students an opportunity to clarify their thinking and get answers to questions, which aids in developing understanding and promotes engagement.
Values: A person’ s principles or standards of behavior; the ideals one feels are the most important to live by.
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