Best Practices in Arts

Key Ideas

Students should do art; not just view art.

Arts should be integrated across the curriculum.

Students must be given an opportunity to exercise choice, control, and responsibility in their art making.

Students should be helped to nurture their special talents and find their strongest art form.

The arts should be used as a mean of thinking.

Students should experience a variety of art forms.

Students should have opportunities to share their work. 

Students should have opportunities to attend professional art events.

Artists should be present in schools and classrooms.

All teachers should be artists in their classrooms.

http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org

http://www.paea.org/images/stories/resources/standards/pa_arts_standards.pdf