| Table 116. | Percent and standard error for public secondary school visual arts specialists reporting that they participated in various activities related to teaching, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 |
| School characteristic | Common planning period with other arts specialists at this school |
Consulting with other teachers to help them integrate visual arts into a lesson or unit of study that they teach | Consulting with other teachers to incorporate units of study from other subject areas into the visual arts curriculum | Sharing ideas about teaching with other teachers outside your assigned school(s) | Visiting classrooms of colleagues who teach visual arts | Participating in site-based management or school improvement teams or leadership councils | Teaching visual arts through virtual field trips using technology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
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| All public secondary school visual arts specialists |
56 | (1.3) | 59 | (1.6) | 64 | (1.4) | 82 | (1.4) | 54 | (1.4) | 62 | (1.5) | 41 | (2.0) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||||||
| Less than 500 | 37 | (2.9) | 68 | (3.1) | 71 | (3.1) | 81 | (2.9) | 36 | (3.1) | 61 | (3.2) | 44 | (3.7) |
| 500 to 999 | 58 | (2.7) | 58 | (3.2) | 66 | (2.4) | 79 | (2.6) | 49 | (2.5) | 60 | (2.8) | 37 | (3.0) |
| 1,000 or more | 67 | (2.5) | 55 | (2.7) | 58 | (3.0) | 83 | (2.2) | 69 | (2.2) | 64 | (2.6) | 42 | (2.8) |
| Community type | ||||||||||||||
| City | 66 | (3.1) | 61 | (2.9) | 71 | (3.2) | 85 | (2.5) | 59 | (3.2) | 66 | (3.0) | 42 | (3.7) |
| Suburban | 62 | (2.9) | 55 | (2.8) | 58 | (3.3) | 83 | (2.7) | 59 | (2.8) | 62 | (3.3) | 37 | (3.0) |
| Town | 53 | (3.6) | 58 | (4.1) | 64 | (4.2) | 82 | (2.7) | 53 | (3.3) | 63 | (3.7) | 45 | (4.1) |
| Rural | 44 | (2.5) | 64 | (2.9) | 65 | (2.7) | 78 | (2.2) | 46 | (2.9) | 60 | (3.4) | 42 | (3.7) |
| Region | ||||||||||||||
| Northeast | 63 | (3.0) | 57 | (4.1) | 62 | (3.0) | 83 | (3.4) | 61 | (3.4) | 54 | (4.4) | 40 | (4.1) |
| Southeast | 50 | (3.0) | 68 | (2.7) | 71 | (2.8) | 85 | (2.4) | 50 | (3.3) | 65 | (3.1) | 42 | (3.7) |
| Central | 53 | (2.9) | 54 | (2.6) | 56 | (2.9) | 75 | (2.5) | 45 | (2.6) | 65 | (2.6) | 37 | (3.4) |
| West | 57 | (3.2) | 61 | (3.1) | 69 | (2.9) | 85 | (2.2) | 61 | (3.3) | 66 | (2.8) | 45 | (3.3) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 46 | (3.4) | 61 | (3.5) | 57 | (3.5) | 82 | (3.0) | 42 | (3.5) | 54 | (3.6) | 41 | (3.7) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 59 | (3.0) | 53 | (3.3) | 64 | (2.8) | 80 | (2.8) | 57 | (2.6) | 63 | (3.2) | 40 | (3.7) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 61 | (3.6) | 62 | (4.6) | 64 | (3.7) | 82 | (2.6) | 59 | (3.6) | 63 | (3.3) | 44 | (3.8) |
| 50 percent or more | 58 | (2.9) | 63 | (3.5) | 68 | (3.5) | 83 | (2.4) | 57 | (3.5) | 68 | (3.2) | 40 | (3.5) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 62 | (2.7) | 56 | (3.3) | 59 | (2.9) | 81 | (2.4) | 59 | (2.7) | 60 | (2.7) | 45 | (3.5) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 58 | (2.9) | 60 | (2.6) | 62 | (2.6) | 83 | (1.8) | 52 | (2.7) | 64 | (2.3) | 40 | (3.5) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 45 | (3.6) | 62 | (2.7) | 70 | (2.8) | 82 | (3.3) | 53 | (4.2) | 63 | (3.6) | 37 | (2.7) |
| 76 percent or more | 48 | (4.1) | 65 | (4.9) | 76 | (5.7) | 76 | (3.9) | 43 | (5.2) | 62 | (5.8) | 39 | (5.3) |
| 1 Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students. | ||||||||||||||
| NOTE: 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 Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 103VA, 2009–10. |
