Percentage distribution and standard error for public elementary school music specialists, visual arts specialists, and classroom teachers reporting the extent to which they agreed with statements about arts instruction at their currently assigned school: School year 2009

Table 57.	Percentage distribution and standard error for public elementary school music specialists, visual arts specialists, and classroom teachers reporting the extent to which they agreed with statements about arts instruction at their currently assigned school: School year 2009–10

Statement	Strongly disagree		Disagree		Agree		Strongly agree
Statement	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error

Music specialist
Parents support me in my efforts to educate their children	5	(0.8)	7	(0.7)	46	(1.7)	42	(1.7)
The administration supports me in my work	6	(0.9)	9	(1.0)	30	(1.6)	54	(1.8)
Students are motivated to do well in music class	4	(0.7)	7	(0.9)	39	(1.5)	50	(1.7)
Community organizations/groups support my efforts to educate students	8	(0.9)	16	(1.4)	45	(1.8)	31	(1.7)
Visual arts specialist
Parents support me in my efforts to educate their children	6	(0.8)	9	(1.0)	46	(1.7)	39	(1.6)
The administration supports me in my work	6	(0.9)	6	(0.7)	32	(1.6)	55	(1.7)
Students are motivated to do well in visual arts class	4	(0.8)	4	(0.8)	34	(1.6)	57	(1.8)
Community organizations/groups support my efforts to educate students	10	(1.1)	15	(1.2)	45	(1.7)	30	(1.8)
Classroom teacher
I consider instruction in the arts an important part of the school's curriculum	6	(1.0)	5	(0.9)	23	(1.5)	66	(1.8)
Students look forward to instruction or activities that involve the arts	4	(0.8)	2	(0.6)	15	(1.4)	78	(1.7)
Arts specialists should be responsible for arts instruction	5	(1.0)	13	(1.1)	39	(2.0)	43	(2.3)

NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. 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. 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, “Survey of Elementary School Music Specialists,” FRSS 102M, 2009–10; “Survey of Elementary School Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 102VA, 2009–10; and “Arts Survey of Elementary School Classroom Teachers,” FRSS 102C, 2009–10.