1. 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

2. What is a standard? What is good about a standard? What is scary about a standard?

3. 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 today’s arts educators Measurement of student learning in the arts Robust curricular design + flexibility Building a web-based set of standards

4. 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

5. Content area teams Teams of 10-12 writers, 5 disciplines selected in December, 2011, from across the country

6. Reviewers from the field are shaping edits… 21,000 arts educators, arts advocates, teaching artists and others viewed the draft revisions to the nation’s 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.

7. Here’s what we heard

8. Things to add…

10. Philosophical FoundationLifelong Goals The Arts as Communication In today’s 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 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 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.

11. Foundational Work: Artistic Literacy, Part 2 Philosophical FoundationLifelong Goals 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 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.

13. Creating Performing Presenting Producing Responding Connecting Studen ts

16. Anchor Standards are overarching PreK - 12 statements expressing the process components as expected outcomes; they identify Grade 12 expectations for learning.

18. Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions focus on what are often called “big ideas.” Essential Questions (EQs) encourage a pedagogy of inquiry.

19. The standards are grade by grade Prek-8 and include three levels in high school: Proficient Accomplished Advanced

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. Creating Performing Presenting Producing Responding Connecting Studen ts

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

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