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In the wake of the Core Standards in math and ELA, the NCCAS has been working to develop new Common Core Arts Standards for art teachers to use across the nation in developing their curriculum. This excerpt from the NCCAS site explains the goal of the standards: "NCCAS is a coalition of nine national arts and education organizations committed to developing a next generation of voluntary, researched-based arts education standards that will build on the foundation created by the 1994 standards (and the 2005 Standards for Learning and Teaching Dance in the Arts), support the 21st-century needs of students and teachers, help ensure that all students are college and career ready, and affirm the place of arts education in a balanced core curriculum." Although the official standards are still under construction, these resources show the direction, intentions, and goals that the standards will be based upon. You can read more about the new Arts Standards and their connection to the Common Core standards here.
Arts Standards & Frameworks
Here is the official document from the NCCAS covering the developing arts standards. The foundations for artistic literacy are outlined in connection to the new ELA and math standards. It is a lengthy document, but click on the image for a shortened "meat and potatoes" framework.
As part of the developing arts standards, a few philosophical foundations and lifelong goals were developed as the basis for what students are expected to learn. These serve as the overarching common values and expectations for learning across all artistic disciplines.
Above is the link to the Combined Curriculum Document from the KDE website. Each arts discipline's goals and standards are aligned by Big Ideas and Program of Studies (Understandings and Skills/Concepts). This is currently what arts teachers in Kentucky use as a basis for their curriculum.
Here is a National Core Standards matrix framework of the Artistic Literacy standards broken down by grade level and Artistic Processes (creating, performing/presenting/producing, responding, connecting).
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