Table 33. | Percent and standard error for public elementary school visual arts specialists reporting that they participated in various professional development activities, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 |
School characteristic | Activities designed for visual arts teachers | Activities designed for all teachers | ||||||||||||||
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Applied study in art studio | Developing knowledge about visual arts (e.g., historical, cultural, analytical) | Connecting visual arts learning with other subject areas | Research on arts and student learning (e.g., arts and cognition) | Integrating educational technologies into visual arts instruction | Incorporating state or district standards into instruction | Student assessment | A subject area that is unrelated to visual arts | |||||||||
Percent | Standard error | Percent | Standard error | Percent | Standard error | Percent | Standard error | Percent | Standard error | Percent | Standard error | Percent | Standard error | Percent | Standard error | |
All public elementary school visual arts specialists | 52 | (1.6) | 56 | (2.2) | 69 | (2.0) | 46 | (2.0) | 62 | (1.9) | 79 | (1.6) | 70 | (1.7) | 41 | (1.7) |
Enrollment size | ||||||||||||||||
Less than 300 | 46 | (4.5) | 51 | (5.4) | 61 | (5.1) | 41 | (4.5) | 62 | (4.5) | 79 | (3.8) | 68 | (4.2) | 38 | (3.6) |
300 to 499 | 50 | (2.5) | 58 | (2.9) | 70 | (2.7) | 46 | (2.9) | 58 | (2.6) | 81 | (2.2) | 74 | (2.3) | 45 | (2.4) |
500 or more | 57 | (2.0) | 58 | (2.7) | 73 | (2.3) | 48 | (3.0) | 65 | (2.5) | 77 | (2.2) | 68 | (2.6) | 39 | (2.5) |
Community type | ||||||||||||||||
City | 54 | (4.1) | 64 | (3.2) | 77 | (3.2) | 49 | (3.9) | 65 | (3.4) | 83 | (2.8) | 72 | (3.0) | 45 | (3.1) |
Suburban | 55 | (2.6) | 59 | (3.0) | 73 | (2.4) | 49 | (2.8) | 68 | (3.4) | 78 | (3.0) | 72 | (2.9) | 41 | (2.5) |
Town | 38 | (4.4) | 42 | (5.0) | 60 | (6.1) | 35 | (5.5) | 53 | (5.2) | 80 | (4.2) | 64 | (5.0) | 45 | (4.8) |
Rural | 50 | (3.2) | 50 | (3.9) | 60 | (3.5) | 41 | (3.5) | 53 | (3.5) | 77 | (3.5) | 68 | (3.5) | 36 | (3.6) |
Region | ||||||||||||||||
Northeast | 54 | (3.4) | 61 | (3.6) | 68 | (3.0) | 48 | (3.4) | 65 | (2.9) | 76 | (3.3) | 69 | (3.4) | 41 | (3.5) |
Southeast | 59 | (2.9) | 57 | (3.3) | 72 | (2.8) | 43 | (3.3) | 62 | (2.7) | 80 | (2.6) | 66 | (2.8) | 48 | (2.9) |
Central | 41 | (3.5) | 51 | (3.5) | 65 | (3.4) | 45 | (3.5) | 58 | (3.5) | 79 | (2.7) | 72 | (2.7) | 41 | (3.6) |
West | 57 | (3.7) | 60 | (3.8) | 76 | (3.3) | 46 | (4.7) | 64 | (4.7) | 82 | (3.0) | 74 | (3.5) | 33 | (2.8) |
Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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Less than 6 percent | 52 | (4.7) | 55 | (4.4) | 63 | (5.0) | 46 | (4.6) | 58 | (4.1) | 77 | (3.7) | 67 | (3.8) | 33 | (4.5) |
6 to 20 percent | 50 | (3.1) | 51 | (3.8) | 65 | (3.1) | 44 | (3.2) | 58 | (3.2) | 78 | (3.1) | 72 | (2.8) | 44 | (3.4) |
21 to 49 percent | 55 | (3.3) | 54 | (3.3) | 67 | (4.0) | 42 | (3.8) | 62 | (3.7) | 81 | (3.0) | 67 | (3.7) | 39 | (3.5) |
50 percent or more | 51 | (3.0) | 63 | (2.9) | 79 | (2.4) | 49 | (3.0) | 66 | (3.1) | 80 | (2.6) | 74 | (2.9) | 46 | (3.3) |
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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0 to 25 percent | 58 | (3.5) | 61 | (3.5) | 67 | (2.6) | 48 | (3.4) | 68 | (3.0) | 79 | (3.3) | 71 | (3.2) | 40 | (3.4) |
26 to 50 percent | 48 | (3.6) | 53 | (3.7) | 67 | (3.5) | 44 | (3.8) | 58 | (3.1) | 78 | (2.9) | 65 | (3.7) | 38 | (3.3) |
51 to 75 percent | 53 | (3.4) | 53 | (3.6) | 67 | (3.3) | 38 | (3.4) | 53 | (3.1) | 76 | (3.3) | 70 | (3.5) | 44 | (4.1) |
76 percent or more | 47 | (4.2) | 57 | (4.2) | 78 | (3.3) | 52 | (4.0) | 68 | (3.7) | 84 | (3.2) | 76 | (2.6) | 43 | (4.8) |
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 Elementary School Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 102VA, 2009–10. |