| Table 51. | Percentage distribution and standard error for public elementary school music specialists, visual arts specialists, and classroom teachers reporting how frequently they participated in activities related to teaching: School year 2009–10 |
| Activity related to teaching | Never | A few times a year | Once a month | 2 to 3 times a month | At least once a week | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error | |
| Music specialist | ||||||||||
| Common planning period with regular classroom teachers | 74 | (1.7) | 18 | (1.5) | 3 | (0.6) | 2 | (0.4) | 3 | (0.5) |
| Common planning period with other arts specialists at this school | 47 | (1.7) | 25 | (1.4) | 7 | (0.8) | 5 | (0.7) | 17 | (1.2) |
| Consulting with classroom teachers to help them integrate music into a lesson or unit of study that they teach | 48 | (2.0) | 40 | (1.8) | 8 | (0.7) | 3 | (0.6) | 1 | (0.3) |
| Consulting with other teachers to integrate another subject into a music lesson or unit of study that you teach | 38 | (2.1) | 48 | (1.8) | 9 | (1.0) | 4 | (0.6) | 2 | (0.4) |
| Collaborating with other teachers on designing and teaching an interdisciplinary lesson or unit of study that includes music | 64 | (1.7) | 28 | (1.4) | 5 | (0.7) | 2 | (0.5) | 2 | (0.4) |
| Sharing ideas about teaching with other teachers outside your assigned school(s) | 16 | (1.3) | 50 | (1.9) | 17 | (1.2) | 10 | (1.1) | 7 | (0.9) |
| Visiting classrooms of colleagues who teach music | 58 | (1.6) | 33 | (1.8) | 3 | (0.7) | 2 | (0.6) | 4 | (0.7) |
| Participating in site-based management or school improvement teams or leadership councils | 54 | (1.8) | 26 | (1.3) | 12 | (1.2) | 5 | (0.8) | 2 | (0.6) |
| Providing input in the preparation of Individual Education Plans (IEPs) for students with special needs | 61 | (1.6) | 32 | (1.4) | 5 | (0.7) | 2 | (0.4) | 1! | (0.2) |
| Teaching music through virtual field trips using technology | 73 | (1.4) | 20 | (1.3) | 3 | (0.5) | 2 | (0.5) | 1 | (0.4) |
| Visual arts specialist | ||||||||||
| Common planning period with regular classroom teachers | 65 | (1.7) | 24 | (1.4) | 4 | (0.7) | 3 | (0.5) | 4 | (0.8) |
| Common planning period with other arts specialists at this school | 54 | (2.0) | 19 | (1.3) | 8 | (0.8) | 6 | (0.9) | 13 | (1.4) |
| Consulting with classroom teachers to help them integrate visual arts into a lesson or unit of study that they teach | 31 | (1.7) | 49 | (1.5) | 11 | (1.1) | 6 | (0.9) | 3 | (0.5) |
| Consulting with other teachers to integrate another subject into a visual arts lesson or unit of study that you teach | 24 | (1.5) | 51 | (1.6) | 12 | (1.2) | 10 | (1.1) | 3 | (0.6) |
| Collaborating with other teachers on designing and teaching an interdisciplinary lesson or unit of study that includes visual arts | 42 | (2.4) | 43 | (2.1) | 8 | (1.1) | 4 | (0.7) | 2 | (0.5) |
| Sharing ideas about teaching with other teachers outside your assigned school(s) | 19 | (1.5) | 48 | (1.8) | 17 | (1.2) | 10 | (1.0) | 5 | (0.7) |
| Visiting classrooms of colleagues who teach visual arts | 60 | (2.0) | 30 | (1.8) | 6 | (1.0) | 2 | (0.5) | 3 | (0.6) |
| Participating in site-based management or school improvement teams or leadership councils | 48 | (1.8) | 27 | (1.7) | 17 | (1.3) | 6 | (0.8) | 3 | (0.5) |
| Providing input in the preparation of Individual Education Plans (IEPs) for students with special needs | 59 | (1.6) | 29 | (1.6) | 7 | (0.8) | 3 | (0.6) | 1! | (0.3) |
| Teaching visual arts through virtual field trips using technology | 62 | (1.8) | 28 | (1.6) | 5 | (0.7) | 3 | (0.6) | 3 | (0.6) |
| Classroom teacher | ||||||||||
| Common planning period with the arts specialist(s) at this school1 | 82 | (1.5) | 12 | (1.4) | 2 | (0.5) | 1! | (0.5) | 2! | (0.7) |
| Seeking help from the arts specialist(s) about how to integrate the arts into a lesson or unit of study that you teach1 | 60 | (1.7) | 33 | (1.8) | 4 | (0.8) | 2! | (0.6) | 1! | (0.4) |
| Collaborating with the arts specialist(s) on designing and teaching an interdisciplinary lesson or unit of study that includes the arts1 | 72 | (1.5) | 22 | (1.4) | 3 | (0.7) | 1! | (0.5) | 1! | (0.4) |
| Attending/observing classes that the arts specialist(s) teach(es) to your students1 | 73 | (1.4) | 19 | (1.2) | 2 | (0.6) | 2! | (0.5) | 4 | (0.9) |
| Common planning period with other classroom teachers | 6 | (1.0) | 10 | (1.2) | 8 | (1.1) | 13 | (1.3) | 64 | (1.9) |
| Sharing ideas about teaching with other teachers outside this school | 12 | (1.1) | 51 | (2.0) | 13 | (1.2) | 10 | (1.0) | 15 | (1.4) |
| Participating in site-based management or school improvement teams or leadership councils | 16 | (1.2) | 31 | (1.8) | 25 | (1.7) | 18 | (1.0) | 9 | (1.2) |
| Providing input in the preparation of Individual Education Plans (IEPs) for students with special needs | 10 | (1.4) | 60 | (1.9) | 13 | (1.4) | 12 | (1.1) | 6 | (1.0) |
| ! Interpret data with caution; the coefficient of variation is greater than or equal to 30 percent. | ||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||
| 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. |