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Advantages to a Conceptual Framework

1. Uniting 20 responses
- develops essential common language and understandings
- articulates a broad mission with clarity
- builds collaboration
- creates a unified perspective across disciplines
- expresses common values/beliefs about Arts Education
- captures best thinking across the disciplines
- defines the parameters for student learning
- defines a coherent balanced vision of purposeful learning in arts education
- distills and expresses knowledge gleaned from best practice, experience and
history
2. Organizing 25 responses
- provides a logical organization guiding both standards writers and standards
users
- prioritizes content, promotes purposeful learning
- creates a meta level of language within which detailed standards can fall
- demonstrates hierarchal and other forms of relationships
- aligns artistic processes with NAE, !", #nternational $esearch,
National trends
- provides a way to divide and con%uer standards
- allows lenses for knowing and doing
- encompasses big ideas and enduring understandings
. Communicating 20 responses
- organizes concepts, processes and skills to guide development of the standards
- provides a logical organization guiding users
- provides consistency of vision and transparency of goals
- logical organization and clear vision guides standards writing
- provides uniformity leading to ease of use at a state and local levels
- makes arts learning comprehensible to broader education community
- informs assessments and guides instruction
- makes connections to imagination/creativity/innovation
- provides a structure for teacher training/teacher evaluation
- communicates rigor in arts education
- provides a tool for alignment with other conceptual frameworks
C!allenges in Creating a Conceptual Framework
1. "eac!ing a Uni#ied $ision 10 responses
% must encompass all art forms,
- different art forms have different languages& what if all can't align
- a common framework might disadvantage some art forms
- establishing a unified vision can be difficult& sometimes consensus can be messy
2. Organizing and &etermining 'rain (ize ) responses
% if the framework is too detailed it leads to calcification/narrows vision
- challenging to determine scope and se%uence
- could be viewed by general public as (wishy-washy)
- may de-emphasize important aspects of the art making process
- may be too broad or too vague to be useful
. Ot!er Considerations 1* responses
- need to avoid forcing an agenda
- need to consider state policies that might conflict with adopting a common
framework
- may be seen as restrictive
- prioritizing within the educational landscape
- resource scarcity *people, money, time+
- who will do the work,
- designing assessment for all demographics
- how will this be measured,
- need to remember that benchmarks are measured, frameworks guide standards
and benchmarks
- all four art forms need to stay true to the core of each arts discipline, yet also
realize !"
st
century learning, college and career readiness and cross cultural
natural connections
- have a responsibility to help students use their minds well
- need to determine what we hang on to, what we throw out
- digital medias must be included, either as their own discipline or embedded
across the fields
- need to remember cross cultural connections

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