The Visual and Performing Arts Departments throughout Ridgefield Public Schools aim to create inspiring experiences that are common to all the arts: exploring, creating, performing, presenting, interpreting, connecting, and reflecting. We believe the arts promote awareness of the world and provide an opportunity to seek meaning through a creative process.
Music at Ridgefield Public Schools and in the State of Connecticut is based on the National Core Art Standards/Connecticut Arts Standards. These standards are based on the artistic processes of Creating, Performing, Responding and Connecting. The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards defines these processes as:
Creating : Conceiving and developing new artistic ideas and work. Improvising and composing.
Performing: Realizing and presenting artistic ideas and work.
Responding: Understanding and evaluating how the arts convey meaning. Critical listening with intent.
Connecting: Relating artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external context.
Based on the interests and need of the students in a particular class, specific projects and pieces are selected by the music teacher.
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