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Employment of art educators and quality assessment of arts education
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Council Member Rita Joseph inquires about how New York City Public Schools employ art educators and assess the quality of arts education when it's not delivered by certified art teachers. Cordelia Veve explains the assessment process for various types of arts instruction.
- Arts education can be delivered by certified art teachers, general education teachers, or cultural arts organizations
- The assessment baseline is the same regardless of who delivers the instruction
- Key factors in assessment include standards alignment, grade appropriateness, and accessibility for all students
- The arts blueprint is used to ensure students have opportunities to make art and build arts literacy
Rita Joseph
0:57:48
Does New York City Public Schools employ art educators in various ways including through cultural arts organization, general education teachers?
0:57:56
How do New York City School assess the quality of arts education when it's not delivered by certified art teachers?
0:58:03
How do you measure that?
Cordelia Veve
0:58:06
So I'd say baseline, it's the same as whether it is a certified teacher.
0:58:11
Right?
0:58:11
If I'm a general education teacher and I am teaching an arts course and the principal is coming in and looking at my classroom, they are using the same lens that they would be using if it was a certified arts teacher.
0:58:23
Same way if there is a community based organization that is providing arts instruction, we still wanna make sure that it's standards aligned.
0:58:32
We wanna make sure that it's grade appropriate.
0:58:34
We wanna make sure that it is ensuring accessibility and inclusion for all students.
0:58:39
And then also thinking about the arts blueprint and going back to making sure that it's ensuring that students are having opportunities to make art, that they're building their arts literacy, that all of those things are happening.
0:58:51
And so while they may not be having the same official evaluation as a teacher, we still want to be looking for the same elements that we would be looking if we were looking in a teacher's classroom.