N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 306.311

Current through Register No. 44, October 31, 2024

Section Ed 306.311 - Arts Education Program, July 1, 2015

(a) Pursuant to Ed.306.26 and Ed. 306.27, the local school board shall require no later than July 1, 2015, conditioned on legislative approval, that a sequential and comprehensive arts education program be provided for each K-12 student in music and visual arts while developing supplemental, but not required, opportunities in dance, media arts, and theatre.

(b) Arts education programs in each school shall prepare artistically literate students who have the knowledge, skills and abilities to participate and be fluent in the arts, by including planned learning strategies and opportunities that:

(1) Provide students with teaching and instructional practices that enable them to:

a. Imagine, experiment, and interpret ideas in diverse ways while creating works of art that emphasize meaning through personal expression;

b. Develop, build, and apply developmentally appropriate mastery in art-making skills and ideas using traditional technologies, new technologies, and an understanding of the unique characteristics and expressive features of individual arts disciplines, for example dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts;

c. Recognize, articulate, and affirm that the making and study of the arts can be approached from a variety of perspectives;

d. Justify that the arts are a way to acknowledge and learn about the diversity of peoples, cultures, and ideas;

e. Connect the arts to mathematics, English language arts, science, social studies, and other content areas; and

f. Be prepared for college and career, and citizenship;

(2) Provide students with knowledge and experience of the following arts principles including:

a. Communication;

b. Creative personal realization;

c. Culture, history, and connectors;

d. A means to wellbeing; and

e. Community engagement;

(3) Provide students with specific knowledge and experience of the following cross-cutting artistic processes:

a. Creating;

b. Performing, presenting and producing;

c. Responding; and

d. Connecting; and

(4) Provide students with developmentally appropriate learning progressions in the following core areas:

a. Music including:

1. Developing musical proficiency in vocal and instrumental music by appropriately and effectively using musical instruments, tools, and technology;

2. Decoding musical notation;

3. Applying domain specific language, forms and structures specific to making and analyzing music;

4. Applying various aesthetic response models to making and analyzing music; and

5. Relating historical, social, and contemporary contexts and connections to creating, performing, and analyzing music; and

b. Visual arts including:

1. Developing visual arts proficiency in at least one visual art form by appropriately and effectively using instruments, tools, and technology;

2. Applying domain specific language, forms and structures specific to the visual art-making process;

3. Applying of various aesthetic response models to making and analyzing works of art created by self and others; and

4. Relating historical, social, and contemporary contexts and connections to making and analyzing works of art;

(5) Provide students with developmentally appropriate learning progressions in the following supplemental areas:

a. Dance including:

1. Developing dance proficiency in at least one dance form by applying safe movement techniques and personal, creative expression;

2. Applying domain specific language, forms and structures specific to the process of making dances;

3. Applying various aesthetic response models to making and analyzing dance works created by self and others; and

4. Relating historical, social, and contemporary contexts and connections to making and analyzing dance;

b. Media arts including:

1. Developing proficiency in at least one media arts area by appropriately and effectively using tools and technologies for creating, producing, responding, and connecting in media arts;

2. Applying domain specific language, forms and structures specific to media arts;

3. Applying aesthetic response models to making and analyzing media arts works created by self and others; and

4. Relating historical, social, and contemporary contexts and connections to making and analyzing work in the media arts; and

c. Theatre including:

1. Developing theatre proficiency in at least one theatrical area for example acting, directing, technical, by safely and effectively using various theatre tools and technologies;

2. Applying domain specific language, forms and structures specific to theatre;

3. Applying various aesthetic response models to making and analyzing theatrical works created by self and others; and

4. Relating historical, social, and contemporary contexts and connections to making and analyzing theatrical works.

(c) Each district shall establish and provide a comprehensive, sequential k-12 music and visual arts education curriculum designed to meet the minimum standards for college and career readiness which provides for continued growth in all content areas consistent with RSA 193-C:3,III.

(d) For arts education programs in grades k-12, schools shall provide for the ongoing, authentic assessment of student learning outcomes through multiple formative and summative assessment instruments that are aligned with the state and district content and performance standards.

(e) Examples of such assessment shall include, but not be limited to:

(1) Teacher observations of student performance based upon evaluation criterion that is aligned to artistic processes, concepts, and skills;

(2) Competency-based or performance based assessments;

(3) Common assessments developed locally; and

(4) Project or performance evaluation rubrics used to determine levels of achievement of arts Education competencies applied to integrated curriculum assignments, extended learning opportunities, and out of school learning environments.

(f) For all arts education programs, schools shall report the academic performance of all students on a regular basis. The school shall provide the following:

(1) A summary of individual student performance to parents at least 3 times each year; and

(2) The opportunity for parents to meet individually with their students' teachers about their student's performance at least once during each school year.

(g) For all arts education programs, schools shall demonstrate how school and student assessment data are used to evaluate, develop, and improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

(h) For the arts education programs in grade 9-12, schools shall provide arts courses per table Ed 306-1 comprising of 3 credits designated as follows:

(1) One and a half credits in music including:

a. One half credit in general music such as but not limited to music theory, composition, music and film, world percussion, guitar, and musical theatre;

b. One half credit in instrumental performance ensemble; and

c. One half credit in vocal performance ensemble;

(2) One and a half credits in visual arts including:

a. One half credit in general visual arts such as but not limited to fundamentals of art and fundamentals of design; and

b. One half credit in studio visual arts such as but not limited to drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, multimedia, and folk art; and

(3) Additional credits may be offered in dance, theatre, or media arts.

N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 306.311

Amended by Volume XXXIV Number 16, Filed April 17, 2014, Proposed by #10556, Effective 3/27/2014, Expires3/27/2024.

The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 35, Number 27, eff.6/29/2015 is not yet available.

The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 36, Number 06, eff.1/8/2016 is not yet available.