Project Grant

Measures will include: tracking number and demographics of student and teacher participants; artist/student/teacher contact hours; academic standards met via demonstrations of learning and lesson plans/other materials used; goals and objectives reflecting planning; daily progress towards objectives; evidence of arts integration into broader curriculum; and activities engaging students in creating, performing, and responding to arts. For example: 1) students will be able to explain what opera is and give examples, 2) students will increase music vocabulary, 3) students will have personal, live, interactive contact with opera personnel, 4) students will demonstrate understanding of stereotyping and apply it to their personal lives, and 5) students will experience singing an opera in Italian.Teachers will assess in classrooms as meets their curricular goals. Students will demonstrate enthusiasm for opera personnel visits. Students will identify stereotypes that carry in their personal lives through classroom discourse. Students will successfully perform an Italian opera chorus during the Paramount performance. Students will generate story-lines from contemporary life that could be developed into an opera. Teachers will complete a post-survey from the Minnesota Opera.