Illinois Administrative Code
Title 23 - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL RESOURCES
Part 26 - STANDARDS FOR ENDORSEMENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
Subpart A - STANDARDS FOR ENDORSEMENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Section 26.170 - Curriculum: Fine Arts
Universal Citation: 23 IL Admin Code ยง 26.170
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
The competent early childhood teacher understands the content, function, and achievements of dance, music, drama, and visual arts as primary media for communication, inquiry, and insight and promotes the abilities of children from birth through grade three as they express themselves through the arts.
a) Knowledge Indicators - The competent early childhood teacher:
1) understands the concepts, techniques, and
materials of the visual arts, the cultural dimensions of the visual arts, and
the interrelationships between the visual arts and other art forms.
2) understands the concepts, techniques, and
materials for producing, listening to, and responding to music, the cultural
dimensions of music, and the interrelationships between music and other art
forms.
3) understands concepts,
techniques, and materials related to drama and dance, the cultural dimension of
drama and dance, and interrelationships between drama and dance and other art
forms.
4) understands various
tools, including technology, for creating, analyzing, and performing works of
art.
5) understands the
interrelationship of the arts and their representations in past and present
society.
6) understands the
elements of visual art, music, dance, and drama.
b) Performance Indicators - The competent early childhood teacher:
1) provides
opportunities for children to explore media, techniques, and processes to
communicate for communicating ideas, experiences, and stories.
2) provides opportunities for children to
explore music in a variety of contexts and communicate ideas, experiences, and
stories through music.
3) provides
opportunities for children to explore drama and dance in a variety of contexts
and to communicate ideas.
4)
provides opportunities for children to apply various tools, including
technology, as they create, interpret, and perform.
5) provides opportunities for children to
examine relationships among the arts.
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