Arts Learning

For the Marcy Dragon Residency, the quantitative measurements that we hope to achieve will be to include all the 3rd and 4th grade students in all aspects of the Dragon Residency, and to invite and share the Dragons with as many fellow Marcy students, families, and community members as possible. The qualitative measurements that we hope to achieve will be for the students to develop an understanding and appreciation for the art of puppetry, to broaden student's cooperative skills as well as individual and communal creative and storytelling abilities by incorporating music and choreography with the Dragon puppets, to increase the knowledge base of China and the Yangtze River, and to deepen the understanding of other cultures both historic and modern day (specifically the Chinese culture), while in turn deepening an understanding of our own history and culture around the Mississippi River.To evaluate the anticipated outcomes of the Marcy Dragon Residency, we will do a number of things: we will tally the number of students who benefitted from participating in the residency and the number of students/parents/community member who experienced the Dragons from an audience perspective; we will collect written feedback from the students about the residency; we will determine from teacher feedback how many and which state standards were met during and surrounding the Dragon Residency; and we will survey the teachers, administrators, Marcy Arts Partnership steering committee, and the Dragon Residency guest artists to see were the residency met or failed to meet expectations. We will use all this information to make refinements that can be incorporated in future residencies.