Background Information
Thank you for taking time to review the draft of the proposed Visual Arts Standards and provide the standards review committee with your feedback.
A statewide committee was formed to review Idaho's current Content Standards and to guide the development of this initial draft.
Standards outline what a student needs to know, understand, and be able to do by the end of each grade. Standards build across grade levels in a progression of increasing understanding and through a range of cognitive demand levels. Standards are adopted at the state level by the State Board of Education and the Idaho Legislature.
Curriculum, which is not part of the Idaho Content Standards, includes all the resources used for teaching and learning the standards (textbooks, reading material, lesson plans). Curriculum is adopted at a local level by districts and schools. Neither the State Board nor the Idaho State Department of Education has the authority to mandate school curriculum. Local governing boards (both district and charter) have the sole authority to adopt curriculum via public meetings, allowing for community input regarding what instructional materials are used in classrooms.
Instruction is the methods used by teachers to teach their students. Instructional techniques are employed by individual teachers in response to the needs of the students in their classes to help them progress through the curriculum in order to master the standards. Standards should not include instructional materials such as proficiency scales, rubrics, and assessments.
This survey is to provide feedback on the proposed draft of the Visual Arts Standards; it does not ask about locally adopted curriculum or instruction. This survey asks for actionable feedback on specific standards as well as general impressions of the standards.
Responses submitted through April 20, 2024 will be reviewed by the standards review committee. The review committee will consider actionable feedback into the initial draft and submit a draft to the State Board of Education in May 2024, as part of formal negotiated rule making.