| Table 35. | Among public elementary school music specialists who participated in various professional development activities, percent and standard error reporting that they spent more than 8 hours in the activity, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 (Table 35—Continued) |
| School characteristic | Activities designed for music teachers | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied study in performing music |
Applied study in improvising, arranging, or composing music |
Developing knowledge about music (e.g., historical, cultural, analytical) |
Connecting music learning with other subject areas | Research on arts and student learning (e.g., arts and cognition) |
Integrating educational technologies into music instruction | |||||||
| Percent | Standard error | Percent | Standard error | Percent | Standard error | Percent | Standard error | Percent | Standard error | Percent | Standard error | |
| All public elementary school music specialists | 41 | (2.9) | 25 | (2.8) | 29 | (2.5) | 25 | (2.2) | 20 | (2.4) | 23 | (1.9) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||||
| Less than 300 | 28 | (5.8) | 22 | (6.5) | 25 | (5.2) | 21 | (4.0) | 10! | (3.6) | 16 | (3.7) |
| 300 to 499 | 39 | (5.1) | 18 | (4.1) | 28 | (3.9) | 27 | (3.3) | 24 | (4.3) | 24 | (3.3) |
| 500 or more | 47 | (4.6) | 32 | (3.8) | 32 | (3.8) | 24 | (3.1) | 21 | (3.3) | 26 | (3.2) |
| Community type | ||||||||||||
| City | 47 | (5.0) | 21 | (4.2) | 32 | (4.8) | 26 | (3.2) | 23 | (3.8) | 23 | (3.4) |
| Suburban | 40 | (5.1) | 26 | (5.0) | 30 | (4.8) | 26 | (3.8) | 19 | (4.3) | 25 | (3.6) |
| Town | 31 | (5.0) | 21! | (7.9) | 27 | (6.8) | 26 | (5.4) | 15 | (4.2) | 24 | (4.8) |
| Rural | 37 | (4.8) | 31 | (6.8) | 25 | (3.6) | 22 | (3.5) | 18 | (4.2) | 19 | (3.3) |
| Region | ||||||||||||
| Northeast | 37 | (6.5) | 26 | (5.2) | 21 | (4.7) | 20 | (4.5) | 16! | (5.3) | 24 | (4.3) |
| Southeast | 46 | (4.8) | 31 | (4.7) | 29 | (4.1) | 27 | (3.4) | 20 | (3.5) | 22 | (3.2) |
| Central | 31 | (5.4) | 18 | (4.5) | 25 | (4.3) | 23 | (3.8) | 17 | (3.6) | 18 | (3.1) |
| West | 48 | (5.6) | 25 | (5.6) | 42 | (5.7) | 29 | (4.2) | 26 | (4.7) | 29 | (4.1) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 30 | (6.9) | 30 | (7.9) | 21 | (4.6) | 26 | (4.8) | 16! | (7.8) | 26 | (4.8) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 36 | (6.8) | 15 | (4.3) | 27 | (4.8) | 18 | (3.2) | 20 | (3.3) | 15 | (2.6) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 45 | (5.1) | 27 | (5.2) | 28 | (4.1) | 30 | (3.8) | 22 | (4.1) | 27 | (3.7) |
| 50 percent or more | 46 | (4.2) | 29 | (5.1) | 35 | (4.8) | 27 | (2.8) | 20 | (3.3) | 25 | (3.5) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 41 | (5.2) | 23 | (5.1) | 28 | (3.8) | 19 | (3.5) | 24 | (4.2) | 26 | (3.7) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 39 | (5.3) | 26 | (5.6) | 27 | (4.5) | 25 | (3.4) | 17 | (4.1) | 17 | (2.9) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 48 | (4.9) | 29 | (5.8) | 31 | (4.7) | 31 | (3.8) | 19 | (3.6) | 24 | (3.9) |
| 76 percent or more | 33 | (5.3) | 22 | (5.8) | 32 | (5.7) | 27 | (3.9) | 17 | (3.8) | 25 | (5.2) |
| See notes at end of table. |
