Common Sense Arts Standards: How The Arts Can Thrive in an Era of Common Core - Softcover

Taylor, Bruce D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1490595686 ISBN 13: 9781490595689

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Often left out of policy discussions about the implementation of Common Core Learning Standards is the role of the arts in public education. "Common Sense Arts Standards" is indeed a common sense approach on how the arts can contribute to overall student achievement in the era of Common Core. As our society becomes increasingly arts-infused through associated technologies such as the Internet (a visual and aural artistic medium), the skills that can be developed through participation in the arts will become more and more invaluable in preparing students to become capable adults in an increasingly conceptual, complex, and globalized 21st Century economy. Written in a conversational tone, "Common Sense Arts Standards" eschews jargon and enables a cognitive shift from Common Core's English Language Arts standards to an arts context in ways that students can transfer their understanding to a variety of learning domains and, indeed, to their everyday lives.

About this title

About the Author:

For almost forty years, after graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Mr. Taylor has been employed in almost every job one can have in a theatre. During his career working for opera, theatre, dance companies, and symphony orchestras in the United States, Canada, South America, and England, he had an abiding passion for working with kids and teachers all over the world. His work has been cited in "Champions of Change - the Impact of the Arts on Learning" and he is the author of an earlier guide to arts education entitled "The Arts Equation - Forging a Vital Link Between Performing Artists & Educators" published in 1999 and a subsequent second edition; both of which are available on Amazon. Mr. Taylor now works as an independent arts consultant for Utah State University, numerous school districts and arts councils throughout the country.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1490595686
• ISBN 13: 9781490595689
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202