Core Curriculum Content Standards
Visual and Performing Arts List of Standards – Core Curriculum
- All students will acquire knowledge and skills that increase aesthetic awareness in dance, music, theater, and visual arts.
- All students will refine perceptual, intellectual, physical, and technical skills through creating dance, music, theater, and/or visual arts.
- All students will utilize arts elements and arts media to produce artistic products and performances.
- All students will demonstrate knowledge of the process of critique.
- All students will identify the various historical, social, and cultural influences and traditions which have generated artistic accomplishments throughout the ages and which continue to shape contemporary arts.
- All students will develop design skills for planning the form and function of space, structure, objects, sound, and events.
Social Studies List of Standards – Core Curriculum
- All students will learn democratic citizenship and how to participate in the constitutional system of government of the United States.
- All students will learn democratic citizenship through participation in the humanities, including all forms of aesthetic expression.
- All students will acquire historical understanding of political and diplomatic ideas, forces, and institutions throughout the history of New Jersey, the United States, and the world.
- All students will acquire historical understanding of societal ideas and forces throughout the history of New Jersey, the United States, and the world.
- All students will acquire historical understanding of varying cultures throughout the history of New Jersey, the United States, and the world.
- All students will acquire historical understanding of economic forces, ideas, and institutions throughout the history of New Jersey, the United States, and the world.
- All students will acquire geographical understanding by studying the world in spatial terms.
- All students will acquire geographical understanding by studying human systems in geography.
- All students will acquire geographical understanding by studying the environment and society.