Desired Learning Outcomes
The Advancing Arts Leadership curriculum unifies instruction across six art forms through shared principles, making meaningful connections to best practices in teaching and learning. Designed to be used in professional development for generalist K-6 teachers, this unique curriculum develops skills across six art forms through the learning outcomes listed below. Because teachers have distinctly varied background knowledge in the arts, participants may differentiate broadly in each learning outcome.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to create a personal identity as an artist, and as a teacher who uses the arts, to benefit themselves and others.
Essential Questions
How do I benefit from building personal skills in each art form?
How can lifelong learning and engagement in the arts enrich my life and teaching?
What is my story?
What are the relevant stories in my classroom?
How do I use those stories to advocate for the arts?
Related Materials
Study the basics of Dance, Drama, Literary Arts, Media Arts, Music, and Visual Arts. Explore the nature of art and develop your personal aesthetic preferences. Study strategies for keeping a sketchbook here. Reference the benefits of the arts in “Why Teach Art?”
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to construct and facilitate a learning experience in each art form based on National and State Core Art Standards.
Essential Questions
How do I apply the elements of each art form to help students create, respond, connect, and perform works of art?
How do I effectively implement student-centered lessons in each art form?
How can I evaluate and assess skills in the arts to improve student learning?
Related Materials
Use information in “How to Teach the Arts” such as the Four Structures for Learning, Questioning Strategies, and Classroom Management Techniques when planning arts-centered instruction. View the art standards at the bottom of each art form page.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to exhibit work and/or produce performances, informances, or explorations demonstrating student competency in the arts.
Essential Questions
How do I produce a performance/exhibition to meet the desired objectives?
How do I elicit meaningful student responses to works of art as an audience or as a performer?
Related Materials
Find questioning strategies and support materials for producing performances and exhibitions in “How to Teach the Arts.”
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to apply the philosophy of aesthetics as they explore the nature of art and personal preferences.
Essential Questions
How do I develop my own sense of beauty and personal preference?
How can I respect the varied opinions of others?
How can I apply my understanding of aesthetics to improve the artistic value of student works in each art form?
Related Materials
Explore various theories and classroom activities surrounding aesthetics in “What is Art?”
Learning Outcomes
Participants will facilitate learning experiences to develop and assess the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional needs and abilities of individual learners through the arts.
Essential Questions
How do I use the arts to learn about and meet the needs of individual students?
How can arts activities improve student learning, dispositions, thinking processes, and ability to perform essential skills?
Related Materials
Study child development and the arts, the 8 Habits of Mind and academic, physical, social, and emotional benefits of the arts in “Why Teach the Arts?"
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to advocate for the arts by applying and describing how arts education aligns with effective educational theories.
Essential Questions
How does a focus on the arts impact the culture of my classroom and school?
How can I align my arts-integrated teaching practices with relevant educational research and proven theory?
Related Materials
Explore, review, and make connections between widely adopted educational theories and arts-based pedagogies described in “Why Teach the Arts?”, “How to Teach the Arts" and “Arts Integration”.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to apply the cultural and historical meaning of the arts to connect arts experiences with differing contexts and aspects of life.
Essential Questions
How can I improve my background knowledge about history, cultures, and current events to make real-world, relevant connections for my students?
Related Materials
Review the purposes of art, developing media literacy, questioning strategies, and “Arts & Culture” resources.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to construct, implement, and assess arts-integrated learning experiences.
Essential Questions
How can we make authentic connections between standards in the arts and standards in other content areas?
How can I use the arts to assess student learning across the curriculum?
Related Materials
Read about and see examples in “Arts Integration", the BYU ARTS Partnership Lesson Plans, and assessment sections of each art form.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to identify and connect various programs and practices at district, region, state, and national levels to promote and experience the arts, while meeting shared goals.
Essential Questions
How do I use district, state, and national resources and programs to support my goals for arts education in my school and classroom?
What are my district/school priorities and goals and where do those priorities align with arts education and arts-integrated teaching?
Related Materials
Study strategies in “Building an Arts-Rich School” including: involving parents, partnering with community arts organizations, and working with administration.