Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
By October 1, 2024, all candidates for an endorsement in
Visual Arts will be required to complete a program aligned to the National
Association of Schools of Art and Design Handbook Competencies (2020),
published by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, 11250 Roger
Bacon Drive, Suite 21, Reston VA 20190, and available at
https://nasad.arts-accredit.org/accreditation/standards-guidelines/handbook/.
(No later amendments to or editions of these guidelines are incorporated.) The
standards effective until September 30, 2024 are as follows:
a) The competent visual arts teacher
understands the sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive
qualities of the visual arts.
1) Knowledge
Indicators - The competent visual arts teacher:
A) understands the elements of design: color,
form, line, shape, space, texture, and value.
B) understands the principles of design:
balance, contrast, harmony, movement, pattern, repetition, rhythm, and
unity.
C) understands the
expressive qualities and communication of ideas.
D) understands properties of two- and
three-dimensional space and of the fourth dimension, time.
2) Performance Indicators - The competent
visual arts teacher:
A) analyzes and
demonstrates the elements and principles of design.
B) analyzes and demonstrates how aesthetic
qualities (e.g., elements, principles, and expressive ideas) are used in art
works.
C) analyzes and evaluates
(critiques) artworks for how aesthetic qualities are used to convey intent,
expressive ideas, and/or meaning.
b) The competent visual arts teacher
understands the commonalities, distinctions, and connections in and among the
fine arts.
1) Knowledge Indicators - The
competent visual arts teacher:
A) understands
how to compare and contrast elements, principles, and tools in two or more
visual artworks.
B) understands how
to compare and contrast artworks in two or more fine arts that share processes,
expressive ideas, similar themes, historical periods, or societal
contexts.
C) understands how
different art forms combine to create an interrelated artwork (e.g., musical
theatre, and cinematography).
2) Performance Indicators - The competent
visual arts teacher:
A) collaborates with
other arts specialists in developing interrelated artworks.
B) analyzes and evaluates similar and
distinctive characteristics of artworks in and among the arts.
c) The competent visual
arts teacher understands the process and production of the visual arts.
1) Knowledge Indicators - The competent
visual arts teacher:
A) understands media and
tools and how to use them in a safe and responsible manner.
B) understands a minimum of five artistic
processes (e.g., printmaking, fiber arts, photography, sculpture, and
electronic media).
2)
Performance Indicators - The competent visual arts teacher:
A) describes how the selection of
tools/techniques and processes creates specific effects.
B) analyzes and evaluates how the selection
of media, tools, technologies, and processes is used to support and influence
the communication of ideas.
d) The competent visual arts teacher will be
able to apply knowledge and skills necessary to create expressively and with
technical proficiency in a range of media and processes.
1) Knowledge Indicators - The competent
visual arts teacher:
A) understands the
manipulative skills necessary to draw and build works of art, using creative
processes to express ideas.
B)
understands how to communicate clear and focused ideas based on planning and
problem-solving techniques in creating visual arts.
2) Performance Indicators - The competent
visual arts teacher:
A) creates artworks in
two and three dimensions and in the time arts.
B) creates artworks that are realistic,
abstract, conceptual, functional, and decorative.
C) demonstrates manipulative skills to draw
and build works of art in a range of media.
D) creates artwork that demonstrates the
process of problem-solving and creative exploration.
e) The competent visual arts
teacher will be able to analyze how the visual arts function in history,
society and everyday life.
1) Knowledge
Indicators - The competent visual arts teacher:
A) understands how the visual arts function
in a cultural and societal context.
B) understands how visual arts function in
commercial applications (e.g., mass media, environmental and product
design).
C) understands how the
function of the visual arts changes over time.
D) understands how careers and jobs in the
visual arts vary based on historical and societal changes.
2) Performance Indicators - The competent
visual arts teacher:
A) analyzes how the
visual arts have contributed over time to communication, celebrations,
occupations, recreation, politics and entertainment.
B) analyzes how the visual arts are and have
been used to inform and persuade.
C) analyzes the function of the visual arts
in various eras and cultures.
f) The competent visual arts teacher
understands how the visual arts shape and reflect history, society, and
everyday life.
1) Knowledge Indicators - The
competent visual arts teacher:
A) understands
the distinguishing characteristics of historical and contemporary artwork from
a variety of periods and cultures.
B) understands how the visual arts change in
response to the changes in society.
C) understands how popular media and the
visual arts influence society.
2) Performance Indicators - The competent
visual arts teacher:
A) analyzes and
classifies the distinguishing characteristics of historical and contemporary
artwork from a variety of periods and cultures.
B) analyzes how the arts shape and reflect
ideas, issues, or themes in a variety of cultures and historical
periods.
g) The
competent visual arts teacher understands and is able to apply pedagogical
knowledge and skills appropriate to the teaching of the visual arts.
1) Knowledge Indicators - The competent
visual arts teacher:
A) understands child
development and the psychological principles of learning and how they apply to
visual arts education.
B)
understands a variety of current age-appropriate instructional strategies and
their applications.
C) understands
the ongoing process of curriculum development, taking into account local,
State, and national standards.
D)
understands how to organize the instructional environment to maximize students'
learning.
E) understands the role
of assessment in measuring students' learning and curriculum
development.
F) understands
different assessment methods and their application in visual arts
education.
G) understands the need
for continuing study, self evaluation, and professional growth.
2) Performance Indicators - The
competent visual arts teacher:
A) adapts
instructional strategies and assessment methods to the needs of individual
students, allowing for students' learning styles, cultural backgrounds, and
special needs.
B) develops a
comprehensive and sequenced visual arts curriculum.
C) effectively uses resources (technology,
materials, and physical environment) to facilitate students'
learning.
D) uses a variety of
assessment methods to analyze and report students' learning.
E) identifies and applies teaching methods
for integrating visual arts with other art forms and other subject
areas.
F) articulates a logical
rationale for the role of the visual arts in the school curriculum, including
philosophical and social foundations for visual arts education.
G) advances his or her knowledge of current
developments in the field by participating in professional development
activities (e.g., coursework, professional organizations, and
workshops).
