Provided by The National Art Education Association
HOW CAN I WORK TO STRENGTHEN TEACHING AND LEARNING THROUGH THE NATIONAL VISUAL ARTS STANDARDS?
Teachers
- Study and use the National Visual Arts Standards to define your teaching
practices.
- Make issues of quality teaching and student art learning a critical part of
your school improvement efforts.
- Work to create incentives, supports and rewards for using the National
Visual Arts Standards in your community.
- Organize a study group for your school or school district around curriculum
and the National Visual Arts Standards.
- Meet with your staff development committee to plan how to design
professional experiences to help prepare teachers who may wish to use the
National Visual Arts Standards.
Administrators
- Provide National Visual Arts Standards information to teachers and the
community.
- Organize professional development activities based on National Visual Arts
Standards.
- Provide professional and logistical assistance to teachers who are using the
National Visual Arts Standards.
- Recognize and draw on the expertise of teachers who are using the National
Visual Arts Standards.
Policymakers: Consider policy action that:
- Rewards teachers who successfully use the National Visual Arts Standards.
- Creates and fund mentoring programs for beginning teachers, to use the
National Visual Arts Standards.
- Creates stable, high-quality sources of professional development on the
National Visual Arts Standards.
School Board Members
- Adopt and support National Visual Arts Standards as models for curriculum
and student learning.
- Request professional development activities that support the standards.
- Recognize teachers who have successfully used the National Visual Arts
Standards at a school board meeting and reward those with financial and other
incentives.
- Use the content of the National Visual Arts Standards when forming district
policies on curriculum, instruction, and student achievement initiatives.
Parents
- Encourage your school board to support teachers using the National Visual Arts Standards.
- Print out a copy of the National Visual Arts Standards overviews and discuss
these with your child's teachers, to help you understand how classroom
activities explore these ideals.
- As you become more familiar with your child's classroom experiences, share
your observations with appropriate school and board personnel.
- Devote time at a PTA meeting to learning how the National Visual Arts
Standards can enhance the quality of education for students. Develop support
activities through the PTA.
- Encourage your child's teachers to use the National Visual Arts Standards. Teacher Educators: To help future teachers use the National Visual Arts Standards
- Consider redesigning curricula to include teaching leadership skills as well
as an understanding of organization theory and education policy issues.
- Acquaint students with the content and aims of the National Visual Arts
Standards.
- Design undergraduate work to mirror the expectations for the National
Visual Arts Standards.
- Offer graduate seminars and sponsor study groups to help prepare and to
support candidates using the National Visual Arts Standards.
- Organize professional development programs around standards for students
and teachers.
- Develop extended, graduate-level teacher preparation programs that provide a
yearlong internship in a professional development school.
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