University of Alaska Southeast

UAS School of Education

ED S593 COURSE PROPOSAL FORM

Professional Level

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

Proposal Status:
☐Original ☐Amended
Submitted By: Date Submitted:
Attachments:
☐ Course Outline/Syllabus ☐ Instructor Resume or Vita ☐ Agenda

Course Title* Sitka ACT Institute

(*Course title should be no longer than 23 characters, including spaces. Abbreviate if possible)

Semester Offered: ☐Spring ☒Summer ☒ Fall Year: 2022_______

Location of Class: City Sitka Building __________________ Room ____

Sponsoring Agency: Alaska Arts Education Consortium

Instructor Information:
Name Jessica Christianson Co-instructor and AAEC Contact:
Barbara Short,
UA ID#: __________________
Address: 253 Hawk Road, Fairbanks,
Address: 500 Lincoln Street A9, Sitka 99835
AK 99712
Phone: (907) 738-3521
Phone: (907) 322-6669
Email: christiansonj@sitkaschools.org
Email: barbshort@gmail.com
Coordinator Information:

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Request Online Registration and Instructions: ☒
"Online Registration Only"
And/Or

Send Course Registration Packet to: ☒ Instructor ☒ Coordinator

Direct Contact (Lecture) Hours:

Note: There must be at least 12.5 Direct Contact (Lecture) Hours per credit.*
*Don’t forget the 15 minute break for every 3 hour time block which cannot count as direct contact time.

Date Times Hours (A) *

(example) Mon: 9/12/11 8 AM – 12 PM 3.75

5/31/2022 8:30 -5:00 7.5

6/1/2022 8:30-5:00 7.5
6/2/2022 8:30-5:00 7.5
6/3/2022 8:30-5:00 7.5
6/4/2022 8:30-5:00 7.5
Total Hours: 37.5

*Note: Hours (A) total must match Content Topics Table, (A) Direct Contact (Lecture) Hours column total.
*Note: These Hours (A) should also match the Agenda submitted with this proposal.

Below is the title and course description that will be visible to students and the public.

Final Assignment Due Date: 6/10/2022

Full Course Title: Sitka Arts, Culture and Technology (ACT) Institute

Course Description: The goal of this institute is to support culturally responsive instruction through
arts and technology. Participants will focus on SE Alaska Native culture and arts while building
technological skills for diverse classrooms. This course is designed to enhance the tech skills for a
wide range of teachers, from elementary through high school, and from tech novice to tech confident.

(A) Direct Contact (Lecture) Hours Description:

Note: There must be at least 12.5 Direct Contact (Lecture) Hours per credit.

(A) Direct Contact

Course Topics
(Lecture) Hours

Technology in the Classroom 14

(SAMR—Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition)
Ready for Rigor Framework 3.5
Formline Design Study 7
The role of movement and music in the classroom 7
Alaska Art Standards 1
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Alaska Cultural Standards 1
SE Tribal Values as related to classroom instruction 2
Curriculum Integration for the classroom 1
Place-based journal entries 1
Total: 37.5

Participant Total Hours/Credit:

(Minimum 12.5 Direct Contact Hours per Credit)

☐ One (1) Credit = Twelve & one-half (12.5) hours to twenty-four & one-half (24.5) hours
☐ Two (2) Credits = Twenty-five (25) hours to thirty-seven (37) hours
☒ Three (3) Credits = Thirty-seven & one-half (37.5) hours to forty-nine & one-half
(49.5) hours

Class size: Minimum 15 Maximum_______ No limit ☒ Closed Enrollment: ☐

Grading: (Please note that all grades are due 5 days after the final date of the course)
☐ Pass/No Pass or No Basis (P/NP/NB)
☒Letter Grade

Payment
☐ Please check here if your organization will be paying for the registered students. To remit payment,
please call UAS Student Accounts Office at 907-796-6267 after all students have been registered.

Instructional Goals and Defined Outcomes:

1.(Knowledge or skills the students will have gained upon completing the course in 3-5 sentences)

Participants will experience the role the arts, culture and technology can play in an integrated
curriculum through study of SE Alaska Native values, arts, song and dance as well as the Hammond
Ready for Rigor Framework and the SAMR guidelines. Participants will have grown in their
understanding of implementing culturally responsive teaching, their knowledge of diverse uses of
technology, their familiarity with the role of languages in honoring cultures, and their ability to draw
and understand formline design.

Assessment of Student Performance (beyond attendance):

2. How will students demonstrate that objectives were met?
Participants will:
a. study, practice and draw formline designs,
b. use BandLab for Education to create their own composition
c. contribute to a cultural rap inspired by Soul Science Lab
d. choreograph a movement piece based upon their name
e. sing and dance to Wooch.een
f. practice using multiple tech programs and apps with their classroom in mind

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3. Describe the products and performances resulting from the teaching and learning activities.
The final products and performances will include:
a. Create a BandLab composition based upon a mission statement
b. Create a collaborative class rap using Carnegie Hall Education Resources
c. Perform choreographed dance integrating culturally responsive principles
d. Sing Lingít song: Wooch een yéi jigax̱toonéi
e. Submit a Formline design of their creation to share with the rest of the class
f. Identify tech tools and programs that they will add to their integrated curriculum

4. Describe how students will be expected to integrate the knowledge and skills they have gained in
this course into their professional practice.

Participants will be expected to reflect daily in on-line journals on what they have been experiencing,
how it has affected them, and the impact it has on their own teaching practice. Teacher-leaders will
read and respond each night to these journals, adding ideas and encouraging them to think broadly and
be brave with what is new to them.

5. For ED courses (per UAS Academic Catalog) “students are expected to put in two hours of
outside effort for every one hour in class in accordance with the standard Carnegie unit of
credit.” Describe the “outside effort” (i.e. homework, practice, implement, etc.) and hours (1
credit=25 hours, 2 credits=50 hours, and 3 credits=75 hours).

Participants will have pre-institute assignments including reading an introductory article about
culturally responsive teaching, describing their classroom and the role of technology, and designing a
‘flatlay’ to introduce themselves. They will have homework each night and a final assignment that will
be due within a week from the closing of the Institute.
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Reminder: Copies of course evaluations
are to be provided to the University at the end of this course. Course syllabi are
required to be submitted with this Course Proposal Form.

Please email completed course proposal form to UAS a minimum of 2 weeks prior to
start date of the course to ensure time to process through UAS system

UAS JUNEAU
Kayti Coonjohn
Administrative Assistant to the Dean
11066 Auke Lake Way
Juneau, AK 999801
(907) 796-6050 Phone
(907) 796-6550 Fax
kfcoonjohn@alaska.edu

I acknowledge that the information provided on this form is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.
Date: _________________

Print name of Instructor/Coordinator: ____________________________________

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Signature of Instructor/Coordinator: ________________________________________

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

Determination: ☐ Approved ☐ Denied Date ____________________

Signature of Director or designee: ________________________________________

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