“Tennessee Academic Standards for Visual Art”
Throughout the United States, each State Department of Education creates policy and sets education standards to provide guidelines and expectations for what students should know and be able to do throughout k-12 schooling in their state. While public schools are required to meet local and state standards, national standards are voluntary and used by some states to inform the development of their own state standards; other states adopt the national standards as their state standards.
Our TN State Standards were ratified and adopted in October of 2016 following the release of the National Core Art Standards. The state standards will roll out during the 2017-2018 school year for planning and practice time. During this year, textbooks will be adopted. 2018-2019 will see the implementation of the new state standards.
TN State Standards Online Resource
The Tennessee Department of Education’s, Best For All Central (BFAC) website contains the most up to date State Standards and resources for Art Educators. There are eight fields included within Tennessee’s State Standards. “Click” any of the listed Fine Arts academic areas in order to view and download detailed breakdowns for each core domain.
The New National and State standards were ratified and adopted in October of 2016. The 2017-2018 school year is the practice/planning year and time for textbook adoptions. The new state standards will be implemented in 2018-2019 school year.
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TEAM Observation Considerations for Visual Art Educators
The Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM) now has a considerations document available to guide administrators in observations of Visual Art Educators. Visual Art classrooms can present challenges at all stages of observation. This considerations document helps surface the approach to visual and creative literacy in the Visual Art classroom. Click below to access the TEAM Observation Considerations for Visual Art Educators as well as Fine Art Student Growth Portfolios guidelines.