AZ Visual Arts Standards

For a copy of the Arizona State Visual Arts Standards, adopted in 2006, click here

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.