Texas Administrative Code
Title 19 - EDUCATION
Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
Chapter 117 - TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR FINE ARTS
Subchapter A - ELEMENTARY, ADOPTED 2013
Section 117.104 - Theatre, Kindergarten, Adopted 2013
Universal Citation: 19 TX Admin Code ยง 117.104
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) Introduction.
(1) The fine arts incorporate the study of
dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts to offer unique experiences and
empower students to explore realities, relationships, and ideas. These
disciplines engage and motivate all students through active learning, critical
thinking, and innovative problem solving. The fine arts develop cognitive
functioning and increase student academic achievement, higher-order thinking,
communication, and collaboration skills, making the fine arts applicable to
college readiness, career opportunities, workplace environments, social skills,
and everyday life. Students develop aesthetic and cultural awareness through
exploration, leading to creative expression. Creativity, encouraged through the
study of the fine arts, is essential to nurture and develop the whole
child.
(2) Four basic
strands--foundations: inquiry and understanding; creative expression;
historical and cultural relevance; and critical evaluation and
response--provide broad, unifying structures for organizing knowledge and
skills students are expected to acquire. Through the foundations: inquiry and
understanding strand, students develop a perception of self, human
relationships, and the world using elements of drama and conventions of
theatre. Through the creative expression strand, students communicate in a
dramatic form, engage in artistic thinking, build positive self-concepts,
relate interpersonally, and integrate knowledge with other content areas in a
relevant manner. Through the historical and cultural relevance strand, students
increase their understanding of heritage and traditions in theatre and the
diversity of world cultures as expressed in theatre. Through the critical
evaluation and response strand, students engage in inquiry and dialogue, accept
constructive criticism, revise personal views to promote creative and critical
thinking, and develop the ability to appreciate and evaluate live
theatre.
(3) Statements that
contain the word "including" reference content that must be mastered, while
those containing the phrase "such as" are intended as possible illustrative
examples.
(b) Knowledge and skills.
(1) Foundations: inquiry and
understanding. The student develops concepts about self, human relationships,
and the environment using elements of drama and conventions of theatre. The
student is expected to:
(A) develop
self-awareness through dramatic play;
(B) explore space using expressive
movement;
(C) imitate sounds;
and
(D) imitate and recreate
objects in dramatic play.
(2) Creative expression: performance. The
student interprets characters using the voice and body expressively and creates
dramatizations. The student is expected to:
(A) demonstrate safe use of movement and
voice;
(B) assume roles through
imitation and recreation;
(C)
identify the characteristics of dramatic play; and
(D) participate in dramatic play.
(3) Creative expression:
production. The student applies design, directing, and theatre production
concepts and skills. The student is expected to:
(A) create playing space using common objects
such as tables or chairs;
(B)
create costumes using simple materials such as cardboard, newspaper, or
fabric;
(C) rehearse dramatic play;
and
(D) cooperate with others in
dramatic play.
(4)
Historical and cultural relevance. The student relates theatre to history,
society, and culture. The student is expected to:
(A) rehearse and perform real and imaginative
situations of family cultures of students in the class; and
(B) rehearse and perform stories from
American history.
(5)
Critical evaluation and response. The student responds to and evaluates theatre
and theatrical performances. The student is expected to:
(A) discuss, practice, and display
appropriate audience behavior; and
(B) respond to dramatic activities through
discussion.
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