Templates

In 2013, the Maine Arts Commission funded a six member team of teacher leaders representing Visual Art, Music and Theater, at elementary, middle and high school levels, who were be charged with two things:

1. Create two full standards-based units, including assessments, lesson plans and resources, and
2. Create templates that anyone could use to submit resources to the bank in the future or to develop arts curricula for classroom use.

Mission accomplished!

​There are now a growing number of complete standards-based units serving two purposes: 

1. to be shared and/or adapted by other teachers for their own classroom use, and
2. as exemplars of quality arts curriculum work.

The templates for unit design, lesson plans and assessments are available on the links below.​

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Assessment Planning Template

Maine Arts Assessment Initiative Resource Bank Project
Developed by Teachers for Teachers
adapted from Understanding by Design, Wiggins and McTighe 2005, and Maine Guiding Principles Performance Assessment Development Initiative 2013
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Lesson Planning Template

Maine Arts Assessment Initiative
Lesson Planning Template
Developed based on Maine Guiding Principles Performance Assessment Development Initiative
Developed March 2014

Unit Planning Template

Maine Arts Assessment Initiative Resource Bank Project
Developed by Teachers for Teachers
adapted from Understanding by Design, Wiggins and McTighe 2005
and Maine Guiding Principles Performance Assessment Development Initiative 2013
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