GUIDING PRINCIPLES
I. An effective arts curriculum provides a sequential program of instruction in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts for all students beginning in preschool and continuing through high school.
II. An effective arts curriculum emphasizes the development of students’ skills and understanding of creating, performing, and responding.
III. An effective arts curriculum promotes knowledge and understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of the arts.
IV. An effective arts curriculum uses a variety of assessment methods to evaluate what students know and are able to do.
V. An effective arts curriculum provides opportunities for students to make connections among the arts, with other disciplines within the core curriculum, and with arts resources in the community.
Standards
- Creating art with artistic intent.
- Presenting or performing artistic works to evoke, express, or communicate.
- Responding to arts through intellect and emotion.
- Connecting the arts to the self, society, history, culture, and other disciplines and bodies of knowledge.