This page is used to catalog resources that we use for presentations and other events.
Resources for May 3 in-service day at Penn Trafford
Quality
- The original research report – The Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education
- AEC’s Translations on The Qualities of Quality
- The Qualities of Quality checklist
Research
Educator Effectiveness/Teacher Evaluation
- Notes on educator effectiveness 4-13 (rough notes)
Common Core
- AEC’s Arts Ed Brief on Common Core
- How the standards in ELA and math were developed
- States that have adopted Common Core
- Key points in ELA
- Key points in Math
- Myths vs. facts
1994 National Arts Standards (Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts)
Revised National Core Arts Standards (Dance, Media Arts, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts)
(Revision led by the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards [NCCAS])
- NCCAS wiki – includes in-process work, College Board research, streaming video and live blogs from stakeholder meetings
What’s required in K-12 schools in PA?
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Resources for Dr. Tambucci’s MAM class at CMU (updated April 2013)
Educator Effectiveness/Teacher Evaluation
- Notes on educator effectiveness 4-13 (rough notes)
Common Core
- AEC’s Arts Ed Brief on Common Core
- How the standards in ELA and math were developed
- States that have adopted Common Core
- Key points in ELA
- Key points in Math
- Myths vs. facts
1994 National Arts Standards (Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts)
Revised National Core Arts Standards (Dance, Media Arts, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts)
(Revision led by the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards [NCCAS])
- NCCAS wiki – includes in-process work, College Board research, streaming video and live blogs from stakeholder meetings
2002 Pennsylvania Academic Standards in Arts and Humanities…
…based on The Getty Museum’s Discipline-Based Art Education (DBAE) model
- DBAE article on Wikipedia
- 1992 – The DBAE Handbook by Stephen Mark Dobbs (full text from ERIC)
- Overview of DBAE from University of Missouri – St. Louis
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Resources for classes at Point Park University (updated September 2012)
Regulations
Chapter 4 of the Pennsylvania Code:
- What are schools/district required to provide for students at the elementary level, middle school level, and high school level?
- What are the requirements for assessment?
- What if a district isn’t in compliance with the regulations?
Information about the benefits of arts learning
The arts…
- build executive function (skills like planning, organizing, managing time, multi-tasking)
- level the playing field for students, especially those from low socioeconomic households
- keep students in school, increase their spatial reasoning ability, strengthen language skills, and increase reading comprehension
- increase motivation and attention span, influence both working and long-term memory, and assist in learning to organize complex actions
Other resources about the benefits of arts learning:
- Publications from the Arts Education Partnership
- Information from an arts education/brain research summit at Johns Hopkins
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got…high quality
- The Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education
- Checklist based on The Qualities of Quality
- Big Thought’s Creating Quality website
- Six Dimensions of Quality Teaching and Learning
Arts integration resources
- A REALLY IMPORTANT DEFINITION: “Arts integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both.”
- Renaissance in the Classroom: Arts Integration and Meaningful Learning
- Arts Integration Frameworks, Research & Practice
- ArtsEdge: The Kennedy Center
- PA Council on the Arts – Arts in Education
