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Teacher and Parent’s Guide: Teen Career Study

We’ve assembled a series of links to sites that we feel have very good information about careers in all the arts disciplines. These are followed by links to discipline specific sites. It is important that the students have supervision while exploring the links because we cannot guarantee that links within these sites are monitored to assure appropriateness.

The final set of links is to interviews with famous artists from the present and links to information about artists from the past. As the standards suggest, it can be helpful for the students to compare the worlds these artists lived in, the quality of their lives, and the nature of their work.

The ultimate test of the success of the exercise will be to have the students write and evaluate their career plans, as suggested in the Social Studies standards.

We have selected materials that should help students meet national and state standards for career study.

National and State Arts Careers Standards, Grades 9-12

Art

• Identify and evaluate the role of the visual arts and artists in business, industry, technology and the community.

Dance

• Describe how a choreographer manipulates, develops and arranges the basic movement content in a dance.

Music

• Identify various roles (e.g. teacher, transmitter of cultural traditions, entertainer) that musicians perform, cite representative individuals who have functioned in each role, and describe their activities and achievements

Theatre

• Identify and compare the lives, works and influences of representative theatre artists in several cultures and historical periods.

State Career Standards

• Write, evaluate and revise a career plan consistent with occupational interests, aptitudes and abilities.
• Evaluate goals and career options and adjust their career plans accordingly
• Evaluate career plans on a continuous basis to determine appropriate educational strategies