The Arts Learning Framework helps teachers, schools, and arts learning partners understand how the arts support student learning through three approaches. Arts Instruction reflects South Carolina’s arts learning standards, while Arts Enhancement and Arts Integration offer strategies for enriching learning through the arts across subjects.
Enriching Education Through the Arts in South Carolina
Arts learning gives students meaningful opportunities to explore, create, and make their learning visible through the arts.
What is the Arts Learning Framework?
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Arts Instruction teaches knowledge and skills in a particular art form. Arts Enhancement and Arts Integration offer practical ways to connect art forms with other academic areas, helping students participate more fully, think creatively, and show their understanding in new ways.
Arts Enhancement
For Academic Teachers
Use arts-based strategies to help students connect with academic content in active, creative ways. Through Arts Enhancement, your lesson stays focused on academic standards, while the arts help students engage with ideas and demonstrate their knowledge.
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Arts Integration
For Arts & Academic Teachers
Combine arts learning and academic content to help students deepen understanding in both the arts and another subject area. Through Arts Integration, arts and academic goals are planned, taught, and assessed together as part of a collaborative learning experience.
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