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child shall be left behind on the art education program. The state of Washington, as I am sure
are other states, is taking this mandate seriously. Soon students majoring in education will no
longer pass student teaching unless ALL the students they are teaching learn the content being
presented. This puts a lot of responsibility on the teaching faculty as well as the students
student teaching to make sure that ALL students will be able to learn the content that is
presented to them. In the central part of the state of Washington many students are Hispanic or
Native American in origin. Some of these students are transient and do not speak or
understand English. In high school these students are sometimes placed in art classes when
they have little interest in art because counselors feel these students will have a better chance
of success in a class that emphasizes a more kinetic or visual curriculum rather than a verbal or
written one. These counselors have little understanding of the rigger that is included in a
DBAE art education curriculum. This is just one of the many problems now facing art
education faculty and student teachers in art education.
In closing, I would just like to suggest that those attending this talk will, on return to their
institutions of higher learning, seek out faculty in the art education program and talk to them
about what they do. We are all teachers and is for the betterment of our students that we learn
about what each other is doing. Building on that knowledge we will be able to better educate
students for whatever field they pursue.
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