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OERI BULLETIN - Summer 1997

Transforming Ideas for the Arts

Those who teach the arts should provide students with opportunities to develop a craft while exploring originality and critical thinking, in addition to looking for ways to use modern technology to encourage imaginative use of artistic material. Students need to know what the arts consist of and the vocabularies with which to discuss them, and students should have the opportunity to make informed choices in the arts. Experiences in the arts should be part of all students' daily lives and those experiences should provide opportunities for students to learn as much about themselves as they do about the subject matter. These are just some of the "transforming ideas" contained in a new OERI report designed to give educators--particularly teachers--the latest ideas, based on research and promising practices, about how arts principles and concepts can best be understood, taught, and used in the classroom to improve instruction in the arts and other disciplines.

Copies of the report, Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning the Arts, are available from the Government Printing Office for $2.75, stock #065-000-00985-4 (see page 11 for ordering information). Copies of National Standards for Arts Education: What Every Young American Should Know and Be Able to Do in the Arts (#1605) are available for $15 from Music Educators National Conference Publications Sales, 1806 Robert Fulton Drive, Reston,VA 22091.

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