| Table 114. | Percentage distribution and standard error for public secondary school music and visual arts specialists reporting how frequently they participated in activities related to teaching: School year 2009–10 |
| Activity related to teaching | Never | A few times a year | Once a month | 2 to 3 times a month | At least once a week | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| Music specialist | ||||||||||
| Common planning period with other arts specialists at this school | 36 | (1.6) | 29 | (1.6) | 8 | (1.0) | 8 | (1.0) | 20 | (1.3) |
| Consulting with other teachers to help them integrate music into a lesson or unit of study that they teach |
61 | (1.6) | 30 | (1.4) | 5 | (0.7) | 2 | (0.5) | 2 | (0.5) |
| Consulting with other teachers to incorporate units of study from other subject areas into the music curriculum |
52 | (1.6) | 39 | (1.6) | 5 | (0.7) | 3 | (0.6) | 1! | (0.4) |
| Sharing ideas about teaching with other teachers outside your assigned school(s) |
19 | (1.1) | 45 | (1.6) | 14 | (1.4) | 11 | (1.1) | 11 | (1.0) |
| Visiting classrooms of colleagues who teach music | 44 | (1.6) | 38 | (1.8) | 6 | (0.7) | 4 | (0.7) | 9 | (0.9) |
| Participating in site-based management or school improvement teams or leadership councils |
48 | (1.6) | 28 | (1.4) | 15 | (1.1) | 6 | (0.6) | 3 | (0.6) |
| Providing input in the preparation of Individual Education Plans (IEPs) for students with special needs |
35 | (1.7) | 51 | (1.4) | 8 | (0.8) | 4 | (0.7) | 1! | (0.3) |
| Teaching music through virtual field trips using technology | 76 | (1.5) | 17 | (1.2) | 2 | (0.5) | 2 | (0.5) | 2 | (0.6) |
| Visual arts specialist | ||||||||||
| Common planning period with other arts specialists at this school | 44 | (1.3) | 23 | (1.6) | 8 | (1.2) | 8 | (1.0) | 17 | (1.4) |
| Consulting with other teachers to help them integrate visual arts into a lesson or unit of study that they teach |
41 | (1.6) | 47 | (1.6) | 6 | (0.8) | 4 | (0.7) | 2 | (0.5) |
| Consulting with other teachers to incorporate units of study from other subject areas into the visual arts curriculum |
36 | (1.4) | 49 | (1.5) | 7 | (0.8) | 5 | (0.8) | 2 | (0.4) |
| Sharing ideas about teaching with other teachers outside your assigned school(s) |
18 | (1.4) | 52 | (1.9) | 17 | (1.5) | 7 | (0.8) | 6 | (0.9) |
| Visiting classrooms of colleagues who teach visual arts | 46 | (1.4) | 35 | (1.6) | 5 | (0.8) | 3 | (0.7) | 12 | (1.1) |
| Participating in site-based management or school improvement teams or leadership councils |
38 | (1.5) | 33 | (1.7) | 17 | (1.5) | 9 | (1.0) | 4 | (0.8) |
| Teaching visual arts through virtual field trips using technology | 59 | (2.0) | 27 | (1.6) | 6 | (1.0) | 4 | (0.8) | 3 | (0.6) |
| ! Interpret data with caution; the coefficient of variation is greater than or equal to 30 percent. | ||||||||||
| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Arts specialists are education professionals with a teaching certificate in an arts discipline—such as music, visual arts, dance, or drama/theatre—who provide separate instruction in that discipline. | ||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Survey of Secondary School Music Specialists,” FRSS 103M, 2009–10; and “Survey of Secondary School Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 103VA, 2009–10. |
