March Review of DRAFT National Core Arts Standards

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What do the new national core arts standards mean
for PA educators?
Cory Wilkerson Project Manager, State Education
Agency Directors of Arts Education Jamie Kasper
Associate Director, Arts Education Collaborative
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What is a standard?
What is good about a standard?
What is scary about a standard?
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Why core arts standards? Why now?

• Revision of other content standards
• Additional research in arts education
• Technology in the arts and in instruction
• Capture best practice from state revisions in
  last 2 decades
• Meet challenges for todays arts educators
• Measurement of student learning in the arts
• Robust curricular design flexibility
• Building a web-based set of standards

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National Coalition for Core Arts Standards

• American Alliance for Theatre and Education
• Americans for the Arts
• The College Board
• Educational Theatre Association
• National Art Education Association
• National Association for Music Education
• National Dance Education Organization
• State Education Agency Directors of Arts
  Education
• NCCAS Media Arts Committee
• Young Audiences

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Content area teams

• Teams of 10-12 writers, 5 disciplines selected in
  December, 2011, from across the country

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Reviewers from the field are shaping edits

• 21,000 arts educators, arts advocates, teaching
  artists and others viewed the draft revisions to
  the nations voluntary arts standards in the
  first two weeks of July
• More than 3,000 of those interested in standards
  revision provided feedback on the standards via
  on-line surveys in July, representing all 50
  states and 3 nations
• writing team members and teams of researchers
  combed through 1,056,000 responses and comments
  from the field on PreK-8 draft standards in early
  August.

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Heres what we heard
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Things to add
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Philosophical Foundation Lifelong Goals
The Arts as Communication The Arts as Communication
In todays multimedia society, the arts are the media, and therefore provide powerful and essential means of communication. The arts provide unique symbol systems and metaphors that convey and inform life experience (i.e., the arts are ways of knowing). Artistically literate citizens use a variety of artistic media, symbols and metaphors to independently create and perform work that expresses and communicates their own ideas, and are able to respond by analyzing and interpreting the artistic communications of others.
The Arts as Creative Personal Realization The Arts as Creative Personal Realization
Participation in each of the arts as creators, performers, and audience members enables individuals to discover and develop their own creative capacity, thereby providing a source of lifelong satisfaction. Artistically literate citizens find at least one arts discipline in which they develop sufficient competence to continue active involvement in creating, performing/presenting, and responding to art as an adult.
The Arts as Culture, History, and Connectors The Arts as Culture, History, and Connectors
Throughout history the arts have provided essential means for individuals and communities to express their ideas, experiences, feelings, and deepest beliefs. Each discipline shares common goals, but approaches them through distinct media and techniques. Understanding artwork provides insights into individuals own and others cultures and societies, while also providing opportunities to access, express, and integrate meaning across a variety of content areas. Artistically literate citizens know and understand artwork from varied historical periods and cultures, and actively seek and appreciate diverse forms and genres of artwork of enduring quality/significance. They also seek to understand relationships among the arts, and cultivate habits of searching for and identifying patterns, relationships between the arts and other knowledge.
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Foundational Work Artistic Literacy, Part 2
Philosophical Foundation Lifelong Goals
Arts as Means to Wellbeing Arts as Means to Wellbeing
Participation in the arts as creators, performers, and audience members (responders) enhances mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing. Artistically literate citizens find joy, inspiration, peace, intellectual stimulation, meaning, and other life-enhancing qualities through participation in all of the arts.
The Arts as Community Engagement The Arts as Community Engagement
The arts provide means for individuals to collaborate and connect with others in an enjoyable inclusive environment as they create, prepare, and share artwork that bring communities together. Artistically literate citizens seek artistic experience and support the arts in their local, state, national, and global communities.
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Students
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Anchor Standards are overarching PreK - 12
statements expressing the process components as
expected outcomes they identify Grade 12
expectations for learning.
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Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions
focus on what are often called big ideas.
Essential Questions (EQs) encourage a pedagogy of
inquiry.
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The standards are grade by grade Prek-8
and include three levels in high
school Proficient Accomplished Advanced
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Proficient A level of achievement  attainable
by most students who complete a high-school level
course in the arts (or equivalent) beyond the
foundation of quality PreK-8 instruction.


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Accomplished A level of achievement
attainable by most students who complete a
rigorous sequence of high-school level courses
(or equivalent) beyond the Proficient level.


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Advanced A level and scope of achievement that
significantly exceeds the Accomplished Level.
Achievement at this level is indisputably
rigorous and substantially expands students
knowledge, skills, and understandings beyond the
expectations articulated for Accomplished
achievement.


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Students
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What do the new national core arts standards mean
for PA educators?

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