| Table 34. | Percent and standard error for public elementary school classroom teachers reporting that they participated in various professional development activities, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 |
| School characteristic | Activities focusing on arts instruction | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied study in one of the arts or arts education | Developing knowledge about the arts (e.g., historical, cultural, analytical) | Connecting arts learning with other subject areas | Research on the arts and student learning (e.g., arts and cognition) | Incorporating state or district standards into instruction | Student assessment | Integrating educational technologies into instruction | ||||||||
| 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 classroom teachers | 22 | (1.7) | 18 | (1.4) | 35 | (2.1) | 20 | (1.3) | 78 | (1.8) | 83 | (1.5) | 84 | (1.6) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||||||
| Less than 300 | 22 | (3.7) | 22 | (3.6) | 34 | (4.5) | 20 | (4.3) | 81 | (3.7) | 82 | (3.5) | 86 | (3.3) |
| 300 to 499 | 20 | (2.9) | 15 | (2.6) | 38 | (3.5) | 20 | (2.5) | 74 | (3.3) | 82 | (2.9) | 85 | (2.7) |
| 500 or more | 23 | (2.3) | 20 | (2.2) | 34 | (3.0) | 20 | (2.0) | 80 | (2.1) | 83 | (2.1) | 84 | (2.1) |
| Community type | ||||||||||||||
| City | 26 | (3.4) | 22 | (3.3) | 41 | (3.9) | 21 | (3.0) | 79 | (3.0) | 84 | (3.2) | 84 | (2.7) |
| Suburban | 23 | (2.9) | 19 | (2.4) | 36 | (3.2) | 23 | (2.4) | 75 | (3.0) | 81 | (2.5) | 85 | (2.5) |
| Town | 12 | (3.2) | 7! | (2.8) | 22 | (4.1) | 8 | (2.4) | 86 | (3.4) | 87 | (3.5) | 89 | (3.0) |
| Rural | 21 | (3.0) | 20 | (2.9) | 36 | (3.5) | 22 | (3.0) | 77 | (3.2) | 81 | (2.6) | 82 | (2.8) |
| Region | ||||||||||||||
| Northeast | 23 | (4.3) | 18 | (3.5) | 32 | (5.5) | 21 | (3.3) | 72 | (4.5) | 80 | (4.0) | 83 | (3.2) |
| Southeast | 19 | (2.9) | 16 | (2.8) | 39 | (3.8) | 21 | (3.3) | 83 | (2.7) | 86 | (2.5) | 90 | (2.0) |
| Central | 19 | (3.0) | 16 | (2.7) | 35 | (4.0) | 18 | (3.3) | 79 | (2.5) | 86 | (2.9) | 87 | (2.8) |
| West | 26 | (3.3) | 23 | (2.9) | 34 | (3.5) | 21 | (2.8) | 76 | (3.1) | 79 | (2.9) | 79 | (3.0) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 12 | (2.7) | 10 | (2.8) | 28 | (4.8) | 17 | (3.7) | 77 | (3.5) | 83 | (3.4) | 84 | (3.4) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 21 | (3.8) | 20 | (3.6) | 33 | (3.9) | 22 | (3.8) | 74 | (3.4) | 80 | (3.3) | 82 | (3.4) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 22 | (3.3) | 17 | (2.8) | 37 | (3.3) | 21 | (2.7) | 81 | (2.9) | 84 | (2.9) | 86 | (2.6) |
| 50 percent or more | 26 | (3.0) | 22 | (2.6) | 39 | (3.5) | 19 | (2.4) | 79 | (3.1) | 83 | (2.6) | 86 | (2.3) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 22 | (3.7) | 21 | (3.3) | 37 | (4.0) | 26 | (3.6) | 76 | (3.4) | 86 | (3.2) | 88 | (2.9) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 19 | (3.0) | 16 | (2.8) | 28 | (3.1) | 18 | (2.9) | 76 | (3.8) | 78 | (3.2) | 80 | (3.2) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 20 | (2.9) | 13 | (2.4) | 35 | (3.5) | 16 | (3.0) | 84 | (2.6) | 86 | (2.1) | 86 | (2.8) |
| 76 percent or more | 26 | (3.2) | 25 | (3.0) | 43 | (4.2) | 22 | (3.3) | 76 | (3.7) | 79 | (3.5) | 83 | (3.2) |
| ! Interpret data with caution; the coefficient of variation is greater than or equal to 30 percent. | ||||||||||||||
| 1 Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students. | ||||||||||||||
| NOTE: Classroom teachers are teachers of self-contained classrooms; these teachers could teach arts areas as separate subjects or incorporate arts areas into other subjects. | ||||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Arts Survey of Elementary School Classroom Teachers,” FRSS 102C, 2009–10. |
