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SLOs & Other Arts Assessments

Student Learning Objectives (SLO)

The Student Learning Objective (SLO) Process is an Arizona state model designed to measure student achievement and growth for arts teachers using valid and reliable performance assessments. The Arizona Framework for Measuring Educator Effectiveness recommends the SLO process be used as one measure for “Academic Progress Data.

  • SLO 24-Point Rubric Data Template
  • SLO 28-Point Rubric Data Template
  • SLO Individualized Percentage Data Template
  • SLO Teacher Instructions
  • SLO Steps Flow Chart

  • Dance Proficient Baseline Assessment Teacher Directions
  • Dance Proficient Baseline Assessment Student Directions
  • Dance Proficient Unwrapped Standards
  • Dance Proficient Summative Assessment Teacher Directions
  • Dance Proficient Summative Assessment Student Directions
  • Dance Rubric for Proficient Standards
  • Dance Accomplished Adjudicator Form for Baseline Assessment
  • Dance Accomplished Baseline Assessment Teacher Directions
  • Dance Accomplished Baseline Assessment Student Directions
  • Dance Accomplished Summative Adjudicator Form
  • Dance Accomplished Summative Assessment Teacher Directions
  • Dance Accomplished Summative Assessment Student Directions
  • Dance Accomplished Unwrapped Standards
  • Dance Rubric for Accomplished Standards

  • Music Ensemble Novice Baseline Assessment for Creating Standards Teacher Directions
  • Music Ensemble Novice Baseline Assessment for Creating Standards Student Directions
  • Music Ensemble Novice Composers Rehearsal Notes, Self-Reflection and Revision Sheet
  • Music Ensemble Novice Composition Portfolio Check Sheet
  • Music Ensemble Novice Rubric for Creating Standards
  • Music Ensemble Novice Summative Assessment for Creating Standards Teacher Directions
  • Music Ensemble Novice Summative Assessment for Creating Standards Student Directions

Tolleson Union High School District

  • Band and Choir Music Ensemble Novice Baseline Creating Standards Teacher Directions
  • Band Music Ensemble Novice Baseline Creating Standards Student Directions
  • Choir Music Ensemble Novice Baseline Creating Standards Student Directions
  • Music Ensemble Novice Rubric for Creating Standards
  • Band and Choir Music Ensemble Novice Summative Creating Standards Assessment Teacher Directions
  • Band Music Ensemble Novice Summative Creating Standards Assessment Student Directions
  • Choir Music Ensemble Novice Summative Creating Standards Assessment Student Directions
  • Band and Choir Music Ensemble Novice Summative Creating Standards Self-Assessment
  • Band and Choir Music Ensemble Novice Summative Creating Standards Peer-Assessment

  • Theatre Proficient Baseline Assessment Teacher Directions
  • Theatre Proficient Baseline Assessment Student Directions
  • Theatre Rubric for Proficient Standards
  • Theatre Proficient Summative Assessment Teacher Directions
  • Theatre Proficient Summative Assessment Student Directions

  • Visual Arts Accomplished Baseline Assessment Teacher Directions
  • Visual Arts Accomplished Baseline Assessment Student Directions
  • Visual Arts Rubric for Accomplished Standards
  • Visual Arts Accomplished Summative Assessment Teacher Directions
  • Visual Arts Accomplished Summative Assessment Student Directions

    Model Cornerstone Assessments

    Arts assessments aligned to the National Coalition for Core Arts Standard's four artistic processes of Creating, Performing/Presenting/Producing, Responding, and Connecting.

    Dance Model Cornerstone Assessments

    Media Arts Model Cornerstone Assessments 

    Music Model Cornerstone Assessments 

    Theatre Model Cornerstone Assessments 

    Visual Arts Model Cornerstone Assessments 

    Other States' Assessment Resources

    Classroom Based Performance Assessments

    Opportunity to Learn Standards

    Opportunity to Learn Standards: Dance

    Dance is the most accessible art form. The only essential material is a human body, so all children arrive at school with their most basic equipment! Opportunities-to-Learn (OTLs) are relevant as ways to facilitate student achievement. They specify dance industry standards and resources necessary for student learning, practice, and performance of dance. Every student must have access to the resources necessary to attain achievement of the NCAS in Dance.

    Support for dance arts instruction in America varies from school to school, district to district and state to state because education in the United States is under the local control of approximately 14,000 separate school districts and not unified or standardized. Standards are not mandated but offer a guide as a scaffold upon which to build programming and curriculum. These OTLs in Dance provide information about effective and necessary curriculum and scheduling, staffing needs, materials and equipment requirements, safe practices, and facilities. They describe necessities for effective delivery of instruction and identify an environment in which learning dance can occur

    Opportunity to Learn Standards: Music

    These Opportunity-to-Learn (OTL) Standards have been prepared by the Council of Music Program Leaders of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). These OTL Standards identify the resources that need to be in place so that teachers, schools, and school districts can give students a meaningful chance to achieve at the levels spelled out in the Core Music Standards.

    These OTL standards are not, therefore, a music teacher’s unfettered “wish list.” They are rather considered guidance on the Curriculum and Scheduling, Staffing, Materials and Equipment, and Facilities that must be in place if the promise inherent in the Core Music Standards is to be realized – that all American students must have the opportunity to achieve music literacy. 

    Opportunity to Learn Standards: Theatre

    These grades 6-12 Opportunity-to-Learn (OTL) Standards for theatre instruction have been prepared by the Educational Theatre Association. They identify the resources teachers, schools, and districts need to ensure that students can achieve at or above standard aligned to levels suggested in the 2014 National Core Theatre Standards.

    The OTL Standards do not identify specific curriculum that a theatre educator needs within a theatre program. Rather, they offer guidance on the curriculum and scheduling, staffing, resources and equipment, safety elements, and facilities that must be in place if the theatre standards are to be met and students are to have the opportunity to achieve theatre literacy.

    Opportunity to Learn Standards: Visual Arts

    The Standards apply to both elementary and secondary art teachers, as well as arts educators who teach in museums, early-childhood programs, and other community settings. Users of the Standards should be careful to apply the standards that are appropriate for their setting.

    Guiding Principles for the Assessment of Arts Learning

    Guiding Principles for the Assessment of Arts Learning

    From October 11-15, 2021, the World Alliance for Arts Education’s Executive Forum authorized the 10th World Summit on Arts Education to be hosted by the University of Florida and the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE). During the 2021 Virtual World Summit, titled Arts Impact: Context Matters, over 200 delegates from twenty-six nations on all six continents gathered to network, share research, and examine the multiple and varied ways in which arts assessments are designed and implemented around the world. Throughout the Summit, multiple discussions by various groups of delegates resulted in rich sets of qualitative data that were analyzed and interpreted daily by the conference leaders and rapporteur. These analyses were used to modify and update the concepts and ideas found within the resulting "Guiding Principles for the Assessment of Arts Learning."

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    From the Arts Education Blog

    January Arts Education Newsletter Thu, Dec 29 2022 Spotlight

    Dear Arts Educators,

    Welcome to 2023! Congratulations on completing the first semester of this

    school year. Thank you for inspiring a love of the arts in Arizona students

    every day. Teaching can be challenging in many ways, but we thank you for

    persevering and making an impact on a daily basis.

    "...if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they

    possess, then my monument will be in their work."

    -Augusta Savage

     

    Thank you for preparing the musicians, artists, dancers, actors and creative

    collaborators of tomorrow. You are doing great work and we thank you!

    Yours in collaboration,

    ADE Arts Education

    December Arts Education Newsletter Wed, Nov 23 2022 What's New In The Arts?

    Dear Arts Educators,

    There are many exciting things happening in the arts during the month of December and we wish all of our arts teachers much luck on upcoming performances and presentations! First, we would like to congratulate the art students of Ms. Lorenia Gutierrez-Casaus in Yuma Union High School District for representing Arizona at the America Celebrates Ornament Display! These ornaments are on display at the President's Park in Washington, DC. We are thankful to them for sharing their talent with the nation! We hope that you have a restful winter break and take some time to make some beautiful art, music, drama or dance solely for yourself. Arts participation is self-care!

    Yours in collaboration,

    ADE Arts Education

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