| Table 54. | Percent and standard error for public elementary school classroom teachers reporting that they participated in various activities related to teaching, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 |
| School characteristic | Common planning period with the arts specialist(s) at this school1 |
Seeking help from the arts specialist(s) about how to integrate the arts into a lesson or unit of study1 |
Collaborating with the arts specialist(s) on designing and teaching an interdisciplinary lesson or unit of study that includes the arts1 | Attending/observing classes that the arts specialist(s) teach(es) to the classroom teachers’ students1 |
Common planning period with other classroom teachers |
Sharing ideas about teaching with other teachers outside this school |
Participating in site-based management or school improvement teams or leadership councils |
Providing input in the preparation of Individual Education Plans (IEPs) for students with special needs |
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| Percent | Standard error |
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 elementary school classroom teachers |
18 | (1.5) | 40 | (1.7) | 28 | (1.5) | 27 | (1.4) | 94 | (1.0) | 88 | (1.1) | 84 | (1.2) | 90 | (1.4) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||||||||
| Less than 300 | 21 | (3.7) | 41 | (4.5) | 34 | (4.1) | 38 | (5.2) | 86 | (2.7) | 94 | (1.9) | 82 | (3.6) | 93 | (2.7) |
| 300 to 499 | 20 | (2.5) | 45 | (3.4) | 30 | (2.5) | 24 | (2.5) | 94 | (1.4) | 88 | (1.8) | 86 | (2.2) | 93 | (1.5) |
| 500 or more | 17 | (2.3) | 37 | (3.2) | 25 | (2.3) | 26 | (2.2) | 96 | (1.1) | 87 | (1.6) | 83 | (1.5) | 88 | (2.0) |
| Community type | ||||||||||||||||
| City | 17 | (2.9) | 40 | (3.8) | 28 | (3.6) | 32 | (3.2) | 98 | (1.0) | 88 | (2.6) | 88 | (2.4) | 86 | (2.7) |
| Suburban | 20 | (2.6) | 42 | (3.6) | 28 | (2.5) | 25 | (3.0) | 94 | (2.0) | 86 | (2.5) | 78 | (2.5) | 91 | (2.1) |
| Town | 16 | (3.8) | 34 | (4.9) | 24 | (4.4) | 31 | (5.1) | 91 | (2.7) | 93 | (2.5) | 84 | (3.6) | 91 | (2.8) |
| Rural | 18 | (4.2) | 43 | (4.6) | 28 | (3.8) | 22 | (3.6) | 92 | (1.8) | 88 | (2.4) | 88 | (2.2) | 94 | (1.8) |
| Region | ||||||||||||||||
| Northeast | 18 | (3.2) | 51 | (3.8) | 29 | (4.1) | 29 | (4.1) | 92 | (3.3) | 85 | (4.0) | 74 | (4.8) | 93 | (2.9) |
| Southeast | 15 | (2.7) | 41 | (3.8) | 29 | (3.4) | 26 | (3.2) | 95 | (1.6) | 90 | (2.2) | 84 | (2.4) | 89 | (2.5) |
| Central | 19 | (2.6) | 41 | (3.0) | 26 | (3.4) | 26 | (2.9) | 95 | (1.3) | 89 | (2.2) | 84 | (2.4) | 92 | (2.0) |
| West | 21 | (3.1) | 32 | (3.7) | 26 | (3.1) | 27 | (2.6) | 94 | (1.4) | 88 | (2.1) | 89 | (1.9) | 90 | (2.4) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 13 | (2.8) | 40 | (5.5) | 27 | (4.1) | 28 | (4.6) | 88 | (3.2) | 88 | (3.4) | 84 | (3.4) | 91 | (2.6) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 19 | (3.5) | 43 | (4.6) | 27 | (3.3) | 26 | (3.9) | 93 | (1.7) | 86 | (3.0) | 80 | (2.9) | 95 | (1.8) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 20 | (3.0) | 39 | (3.9) | 27 | (2.8) | 25 | (3.4) | 96 | (1.3) | 89 | (2.4) | 88 | (2.0) | 92 | (2.1) |
| 50 percent or more | 19 | (2.5) | 40 | (3.4) | 28 | (2.8) | 28 | (2.8) | 96 | (1.6) | 90 | (2.0) | 83 | (2.3) | 86 | (2.7) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 17 | (2.9) | 45 | (3.6) | 27 | (3.6) | 22 | (3.2) | 95 | (1.5) | 83 | (2.9) | 82 | (3.0) | 90 | (2.3) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 15 | (3.1) | 34 | (4.1) | 28 | (4.2) | 26 | (4.0) | 95 | (1.5) | 90 | (2.3) | 86 | (2.5) | 93 | (1.8) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 19 | (3.2) | 40 | (3.5) | 26 | (3.1) | 30 | (3.1) | 93 | (2.0) | 92 | (2.0) | 84 | (2.6) | 93 | (1.7) |
| 76 percent or more | 21 | (3.4) | 42 | (3.9) | 30 | (3.7) | 29 | (3.6) | 94 | (2.2) | 89 | (2.7) | 84 | (2.5) | 85 | (3.4) |
| 1 Percents are based on the 92 percent of classroom teachers at public elementary schools with music or visual arts specialists during the 2009–10 school year. | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 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. 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, “Arts Survey of Elementary School Classroom Teachers,” FRSS 102C, 2009–10. |
