Creative Arts Curriculum Selection Protocol

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1. List of relevant professional organizations, with URLs:

 

2. Literature containing meta-studies comparing curricula based on quality of content coverage, best practice recommendations, alignment with state or federal standards:

 

3. Literature assessing curricular effectiveness (in terms of student outcomes):

 

 

4. Textbook adoption recommendations of relevant professional organizations

 

 

5. Copy policy position statements from professional organizations regarding relevant professional standards and curricular standards.

 

6. Links to state and national standards in content area.

 

7. Reviews/comparisons of units/chapters addressing similar topics.

Abel's picture

A few links to get us started

Here are a few links to get us started.  Though I only list 4, many of the webpages have additional links.  Also, though many of these webpages are focused primarily on music, some of the webpages have links to the other arts. 

The National Standards and the main national professional organization for music

http://www.menc.org/publication/books/standards.htm

 

New York State Music Standards

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/arts/pub/mus5to8.pdf

 

Main New York State professional organization for music

http://www.nyssma.org/resources.cfm (also provides links to several other resources)

 

NewYork City “Blueprint for Teaching and Learning the Arts"

http://schools.nyc.gov/projectarts/Pages/a-blueprint.htm

andrewstillman's picture

Thanks Abel...added links to main document

I also gave you editing rights to the document, so you can add more stuff in the future, as needed.

Cheers,

Andrew