Visual & Performing Arts

Einstein School has adopted the California Arts Content Standards.

The arts are a dynamic presence in our daily lives, enabling us to express our creativity while challenging our intellect. Through the arts, children have a unique means of expression that captures their passions and emotions and allows them to explore ideas, subject matter, and culture in delightfully different ways.

Achievement in the arts cultivates essential skills, such as problem solving, creative thinking, effective planning, time management, teamwork, effective communication, and an understanding of technology.

Essential guiding principles for arts education programs are contained in the Visual and Performing Arts Framework, and are reflected throughout these content standards. First, the arts are core subjects, each containing a distinct body of knowledge and skills. Academic rigor is a basic characteristic of a comprehensive education in the arts, including the following:

• Learning through active practice, rehearsal, and creation or performance of works in the arts

• Reading about the arts and artists

• Researching, writing, and communicating about the arts

• Reflecting on the arts in thoughtful essay or journal writing on one’s observations, feelings, and ideas about the arts

• Participating in arts criticism on the basis of observation, knowledge, and criteria.

Visual Arts

• Visual Arts 6

• Visual Arts 7

• Visual Arts 8

• Visual Arts 9

• Visual Arts 10

• Visual Arts 11

• Visual Arts 12

Theater

• Theater 6

• Theater 7

• Theater 8

• Theater 9

• Theater 10

Music

• Music 6

• Music 7

• Music 8

• Music 9

• Music 10