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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Art Teachers: Join In the Blog!
Art Teachers across Kentucky Unite! Blogging is a wonderful way of easily getting involved in technology. It is also a useful tool for communication. Regardless of how computer savvy you may be, you can easily start a blog for yourself. You could use a blog to showcase:
And for those of you who want more info, come to the KyAEA Fall Conference and attend a workshop hosted by Sarah Horn about making blogs and using technology in the classroom.
- Your Art Classes
- Your Art Club
- Yourself as an Artist
- Inspirations that feed your artistic souls
- Whatever you like!
And for those of you who want more info, come to the KyAEA Fall Conference and attend a workshop hosted by Sarah Horn about making blogs and using technology in the classroom.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Below is the official statement from the KAAE regarding Senate Bill 1. This statement has the support of Kentucky’s arts educators’ organizations.
The Kentucky Alliance for Arts Education is committed to ensuring that all of Kentucky’s students receive sustained, sequential education programs in dance, drama, music, and visual arts. The provisions of Senate Bill One seriously jeopardize the opportunities for Kentucky’s students to receive a comprehensive arts education at a time when the American public and the corporate sector are recognizing the need for imagination and creativity to meet the challenges of the 21st Century World.
The current Elementary and Secondary Education Act states that the arts are “an integral part of the elementary and secondary school curriculum.” (No Child Left Behind Act, Subpart 15, Section 5551.)
Removing the state-level assessment for Arts and Humanities relegates dance, drama, music, and visual arts to a non-core status. State-level assessment allows Kentucky to measure its progress in Arts and Humanities against other states. State-level assessment also helps Kentucky align its core content with the National Standards for Arts Education (a MENC publication) which has provided a qualitative base-line for the arts since 1994.
Merely quantifying the opportunities that students may have to study any or all of the arts does not address the effectiveness of such programs. The 20% of school districts that would be audited annually, as proposed, does not ensure that all school districts will reach proficiency by 2014.
It is widely recognized in the arts education field that standardized testing in the arts does not adequately measure students’ creativity. Nonetheless, to jettison completely a standards-based assessment for the arts is a disservice to Kentucky’s students. Other states have developed objective rubrics for authentic assessment of dance, drama, music, and visual arts which can serve as models for Kentucky to develop such rubrics. Such measurements would quantify not just the opportunity to “express their creative talents in visual arts, music, and other performing arts” (Senate Bill 1.b.7) but also the effectiveness of such programs. It is desirable that measures be considered that move to a longitudinal assessment of students.
It is also essential that all of the arts be included in the language of the bill. There are national standards in dance and drama, as well as visual arts and music. Kentucky has teacher certification programs in dance and drama, as well as visual arts and music. There are state and national organizations for educators in both dance and drama, as well as visual arts and music. Dance and drama are not merely “other performing arts” but arts disciplines in their own right,
Text Box: Arts for All : All Four Arts and should be recognized as such. Section 1.b.7 should be amended as follows: “…creative talents in visual arts, music, dance and drama.”
In recent months a number of studies have been released that demonstrate the efficacy of arts education and arts integration for our nations’ students. The proposed changes with regard to arts education in Senate Bill One run counter to the data that is being gathered by such organizations as Imagine-Nation www.theimaginenation.net, The National Center of Education and the Economy (Touch Choices or Tough Times, The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce) and www.keepartsinschools.org. The current proposals for arts education will mean that Kentucky’s national profile in arts education will be significantly reduced.
The Kentucky Alliance for Arts Education, together with Kentucky’s other Arts Education Organizations, support and endorse the national statement “Arts Education: Creating Student Success in School, Work and Life” signed by 60 national arts and education service organizations.
Arts for All : All Four Arts Kentucky Alliance for Arts Education
The Kentucky Alliance for Arts Education is committed to ensuring that all of Kentucky’s students receive sustained, sequential education programs in dance, drama, music, and visual arts. The provisions of Senate Bill One seriously jeopardize the opportunities for Kentucky’s students to receive a comprehensive arts education at a time when the American public and the corporate sector are recognizing the need for imagination and creativity to meet the challenges of the 21st Century World.
The current Elementary and Secondary Education Act states that the arts are “an integral part of the elementary and secondary school curriculum.” (No Child Left Behind Act, Subpart 15, Section 5551.)
Removing the state-level assessment for Arts and Humanities relegates dance, drama, music, and visual arts to a non-core status. State-level assessment allows Kentucky to measure its progress in Arts and Humanities against other states. State-level assessment also helps Kentucky align its core content with the National Standards for Arts Education (a MENC publication) which has provided a qualitative base-line for the arts since 1994.
Merely quantifying the opportunities that students may have to study any or all of the arts does not address the effectiveness of such programs. The 20% of school districts that would be audited annually, as proposed, does not ensure that all school districts will reach proficiency by 2014.
It is widely recognized in the arts education field that standardized testing in the arts does not adequately measure students’ creativity. Nonetheless, to jettison completely a standards-based assessment for the arts is a disservice to Kentucky’s students. Other states have developed objective rubrics for authentic assessment of dance, drama, music, and visual arts which can serve as models for Kentucky to develop such rubrics. Such measurements would quantify not just the opportunity to “express their creative talents in visual arts, music, and other performing arts” (Senate Bill 1.b.7) but also the effectiveness of such programs. It is desirable that measures be considered that move to a longitudinal assessment of students.
It is also essential that all of the arts be included in the language of the bill. There are national standards in dance and drama, as well as visual arts and music. Kentucky has teacher certification programs in dance and drama, as well as visual arts and music. There are state and national organizations for educators in both dance and drama, as well as visual arts and music. Dance and drama are not merely “other performing arts” but arts disciplines in their own right,
Text Box: Arts for All : All Four Arts and should be recognized as such. Section 1.b.7 should be amended as follows: “…creative talents in visual arts, music, dance and drama.”
In recent months a number of studies have been released that demonstrate the efficacy of arts education and arts integration for our nations’ students. The proposed changes with regard to arts education in Senate Bill One run counter to the data that is being gathered by such organizations as Imagine-Nation www.theimaginenation.net, The National Center of Education and the Economy (Touch Choices or Tough Times, The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce) and www.keepartsinschools.org. The current proposals for arts education will mean that Kentucky’s national profile in arts education will be significantly reduced.
The Kentucky Alliance for Arts Education, together with Kentucky’s other Arts Education Organizations, support and endorse the national statement “Arts Education: Creating Student Success in School, Work and Life” signed by 60 national arts and education service organizations.
Announcing KyAEA Common Thread, the first annual exhibition of artwork by Northern Region KyAEA Art Teachers. On display at the Dhart Gallery in Dixie Heights High School in Crestview Hills, KY. Opening reception March 7th from 6-8 PM, complete with delighful goodies created by the culinary arts students of Dixie Heights High. Come and enjoy the arts!
Monday, February 25, 2008
Restructuring CATS testing to cut down on arts assessment!
This is something all arts educators should be aware of! Our small portion of the CATS tests may be getting smaller. While this could free up some of the demands of meeting core content criteria, it could also threaten the stability of arts education positions throughout the state. The following I recieved from a KMEA representative, but it applies to KYAEA also!
On Tuesday evening Sen David Williams filed Senate Bill 1 which proposes a restructuring of the CATS test. One of the restructuring components of that bill was the elimination of written assessment in the arts.
Certainly, in a day when "what is tested is what is valued" this is an alarming turn of events. However, the bill also adds (pg 1.) a 7th Kentucky Learner Goal--as being the Creative and Performing Arts--and provides for an accountability tool to be used to evaluate schools on their support of creative and performing arts programs in the school.
To see a copy of the bill go to:
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/08RS/SB1/bill.doc
On Tuesday evening Sen David Williams filed Senate Bill 1 which proposes a restructuring of the CATS test. One of the restructuring components of that bill was the elimination of written assessment in the arts.
Certainly, in a day when "what is tested is what is valued" this is an alarming turn of events. However, the bill also adds (pg 1.) a 7th Kentucky Learner Goal--as being the Creative and Performing Arts--and provides for an accountability tool to be used to evaluate schools on their support of creative and performing arts programs in the school.
To see a copy of the bill go to:
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/08RS/SB1/bill.doc
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Hi from Glasgow
Glasgow Middle School's National Junior Art Honor Society (NJAHS) has their own blog now. I invite you to visit often as we are ALWAYS busy. Take a peek if you get the chance!
http://gmsnjahs.blogspot.com
http://gmsnjahs.blogspot.com
Convention
If any member would like to present at the KyAEA convention in Oct please contact ilona.szekely@yahoo.com for information.
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