| Table 36. | Among public elementary school visual arts 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 36—Continued) |
| School characteristic | Activities designed for visual arts teachers | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public elementary school visual arts specialists | 34 | (2.3) | 31 | (2.0) | 29 | (1.7) | 26 | (2.3) | 22 | (1.6) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||
| Less than 300 | 40 | (7.0) | 33 | (7.2) | 32 | (4.6) | 35 | (6.6) | 25 | (3.6) |
| 300 to 499 | 41 | (3.7) | 35 | (2.9) | 29 | (2.9) | 26 | (3.9) | 24 | (2.4) |
| 500 or more | 26 | (2.8) | 27 | (3.0) | 27 | (2.8) | 22 | (3.5) | 20 | (2.5) |
| Community type | ||||||||||
| City | 35 | (5.4) | 30 | (3.7) | 30 | (3.6) | 29 | (4.5) | 22 | (2.9) |
| Suburban | 31 | (3.7) | 32 | (3.1) | 28 | (3.3) | 22 | (3.5) | 22 | (2.8) |
| Town | 45 | (7.8) | 35 | (6.7) | 29 | (5.9) | 26! | (8.6) | 23 | (5.6) |
| Rural | 36 | (4.9) | 30 | (4.2) | 28 | (3.7) | 29 | (4.3) | 23 | (3.6) |
| Region | ||||||||||
| Northeast | 36 | (4.5) | 33 | (3.7) | 32 | (3.6) | 24 | (4.1) | 21 | (3.5) |
| Southeast | 32 | (3.7) | 30 | (4.3) | 29 | (3.5) | 25 | (5.1) | 25 | (3.7) |
| Central | 35 | (4.7) | 28 | (3.9) | 28 | (3.3) | 30 | (4.9) | 23 | (3.8) |
| West | 37 | (5.4) | 35 | (5.4) | 26 | (4.4) | 24 | (5.6) | 20 | (3.9) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 35 | (5.0) | 29 | (5.0) | 34 | (4.0) | 31 | (5.0) | 29 | (3.9) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 32 | (4.4) | 32 | (4.0) | 21 | (3.4) | 24 | (4.7) | 17 | (3.1) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 42 | (5.0) | 31 | (3.9) | 28 | (4.2) | 21 | (4.9) | 20 | (3.1) |
| 50 percent or more | 30 | (4.6) | 32 | (3.5) | 31 | (3.3) | 28 | (3.7) | 24 | (2.9) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 37 | (4.0) | 32 | (3.7) | 32 | (3.8) | 27 | (4.3) | 22 | (3.1) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 37 | (4.1) | 24 | (3.7) | 25 | (4.1) | 26 | (4.6) | 19 | (3.5) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 29 | (4.2) | 32 | (5.2) | 25 | (3.5) | 28 | (5.8) | 23 | (4.0) |
| 76 percent or more | 34 | (5.5) | 35 | (5.4) | 32 | (3.5) | 24 | (4.6) | 25 | (3.7) |
| See notes at end of table. |
