Debora Escalante, Associate Professor, UVU debora.escalante@uvu.edu ESSA, 21st Century Skills, and Arts Education: Implications for Teacher Education Debora Escalante, Associate Professor, UVU debora.escalante@uvu.edu
Every Student Succeeds Act Well Rounded Education includes the arts Funding for the arts Title I Title I, II, & IV support professional development Flexible accountability progress measures to include school climate, student engagement, parental engagement Protection from “pull-out” remedial instruction
21st Century Skills © 2007 partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21) www.p21.org/Framework
Tony Wagner: Seven Survival Skills Critical thinking and problem solving Collaboration across networks and leading by influence Agility and adaptability Initiative and entrepreneurship Effective oral and written communication Accessing and analyzing information Curiosity and imagination Wagner, Creating Innovators, 2012
Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein Observing Imaging Abstracting Recognizing Patterns Forming Patterns Analogizing Body Thinking Empathizing Dimensional thinking Modeling Playing Transforming Synthesizing Root-Bernstein, Sparks of Genius, 1999
Sir Ken Robinson: What’s Worth Knowing Curiosity – the ability to ask questions and explore how the world works Creativity – The ability to generate new ideas and apply them in practice Criticism (Critical Thinking) – The ability to analyze information and ideas, and to form reasoned arguments and judgments Communication – The ability to express thoughts and feelings clearly and confidently in a range of media and forms Collaboration - The ability to work constructively with others Compassion – The ability to empathize with others and to act accordingly Composure – the ability to connect with the inner life of feeling and develop a sense of personal harmony and balance Robinson, Creative Schools, 2015
Fourteen Gifts of the Arts Communication Content Creative Inquiry Critical Thinking Comprehension Composition Culture Cooperation/collaboration Community Compassion Commitment/interest Concentration Confidence Competence/control Cornett, Creating meaning through literature and the arts, 2014
Seven Goals of Quality Arts Education Foster broad dispositions and skills, especially the capacity to think creatively and the capacity to make connections. Teach artistic skills and techniques without making them primary Develop aesthetic awareness Provide ways of pursuing understanding of the world Help students engage with community, civic, and social issues Provide a venue for students to express themselves Help students develop as individuals Seidel, Tishman, Winner, Hetland, Palmer. The Qualities of Quality, 2009
So, What are the Implications for Us?