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Toolkit for Teaching the Arts
The New York State Alliance for Arts Education
(NYSAAE) is delighted to present the most
up to date compendium of information for both
practitioners and advocates of Arts Education/Arts
in Education. The Toolkit is
a response to countless requests for information
regarding a wide assortment of topics including:
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How can I find money to support outstanding
programming?
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How can arts education stakeholders work
together to support a rigorous arts curriculum?
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Where in my region can I find an arts
education advocacy network?
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How can schools and arts organizations
work together to enhance academic learning
through the arts?
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What kind of education background do students
have at each grade level, K-12?
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How can I successfully integrate the arts
into classroom curriculum?
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And more….
In order for us to make sure that our Toolkit
meets the needs of artists, teachers, parents,
school board members, district administrators,
and citizen advocates, we surveyed a representative
sample of each category during the Fall, 2005.
They told us what they wanted to know and
what they wanted others to know as well.
They asked for information, and they asked
for tools that would help in the planning,
implementation and assessment of sequential,
standards-based arts instruction. They
wanted to discuss how arts events (theatrical
and dance productions, exhibitions in museums
and galleries, etc.) and arts residencies
in music, art, dance, theatre and the literary
arts, provided by credentialed arts
teachers as well as community based “teaching
artists” could enhance the wider curriculum.
They also asked for guidance regarding their
own professional development and training
so that they could acquire the skills to use
resources wisely and help others do the same.
Finally, they asked for all of this in a format
that could be expanded over time, so that
new developments could be added as they occur.
And so we present the Toolkit.
In it you will find the tools and resources
necessary to create, expand and improve arts
education and arts in education (arts integrated
into standards-based curriculum) programs
in your schools.
The Toolkit is divided into several
sections, each with an advisory introduction
followed by an annotated list of resources
suitable to the section’s topic. At
the end is a short and practical bibliography
that includes the useful books, articles,
and special citations that strengthen the
case for arts/arts in education.
On behalf of NYSAAE, we hope you find the
Toolkit useful and a means of continuing
to provide the best in arts education/arts
in education in New York
State.
Sincerely,
Carol Fineberg
Former Board Chair, NYSAAE
Jeremy
Johannesen
Executive
Director, NYSAAE
Carol Brown
Board President, NYSAAE |
