Briana's Response #3

I won't lie, I'm a little overwhelmed. I was ok when just thinking about Bloom's taxonomy and the other INTASC standards, but for some reason, reading all of the national stadards and the utah core curriculum really overwhelmed me. I've begun thinking about the things that really are required of me to teach. I apparently can't just go in a teach them what I want to. Purpose, I suppose. :)

I think something interesting to note is that one of the national theatre standards compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts and new art forms. This to me leans towards analyzing and being literate with theatre without having a written text. This specific standard promotes literacy in non-written texts, which is awesome. When using this standard, the text become the piece of art work and not a book. Our students need to learn to read and understand or be literate with all forms of texts, and this is the perfect standard to do that with! I think it is also important to note that constructing and creating theatre is a part of the standards. I think this helps us to assess the literacy of our students in all forms of texts and to gauge where their understanding lies with theatre. It all fits together! That's something that is wonderful to realize. Even though I am overwhelemed, these standards may be things that I am already doing naturally.