1. 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

2. 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

3. 21st Century Skills © 2007 partnership for 21st Century Learning
(P21)

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. So, What are the Implications for Us?