Visual Arts Program

Standards

Anchorage School District Content Standards, K-12

Affirming the belief that knowledge of the visual arts is an indispensable part of a student's total education, the ASD K-12 visual art program is designed to encourage independent thinking, creativity, and development of an appreciation for humankind's artistic endeavors, prehistoric to the present.

ASD Art Content Standards, K-12 (PDF)

ASD Art Correlations to Performance Standards (PDF)

Alaska Content Standards

The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development has developed content and performance standards for Alaska students.

Alaska Content and Performance Standards for Alaska Students ( PDF)

National Standards for Arts Education

These national standards, developed by the National Art Education Association, offer "one road map for competence and educational effectiveness, but without casting a mold into which all visual arts programs must fit."

National Visual Arts Standards at the National Art Education Association ( PDF) or The Kennedy Center, ArtsEdge

More about the national standards

• National Standards for Arts Education (PDF)
  What are they? Why should there be standards? What are the standards? How can the standards be achieved?
  The National PTA addressed these questions in ArtEffects, October 1994

• Parent’s Guide to the National Standards for Arts Education (PDF)
  Written by Kathleen Welling when she was director of outreach and special programs for the Music Educators National Conference

• Putting Arts Standards to Work (PDF)
  By John J. Mahlmann, executive director of the Music Educators National Conference and former chair of the National Coalition for Education in the Arts, which drafted the national arts education standards.
  

 

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