Grade Nine Arts Education
The grade nine Arts Education curriculum incorporates all four
strands. The curriculum is designed to allow for a variety of
possibilities for delivery, respecting that time-tabling situations
and personnel varies from school to school. Each of the four
strands may be taught separately or combined in a number of ways,
and the course may be taught by one to four teachers. Although the
dance, drama, music and visual art strands have been developed as
discrete strands, the use of common focuses or themes provides a
way for individual teachers or inter-disciplinary teaching teams to
make connections among the strands.
Time Allotment
Core Curriculum policy states that the time allotment for Arts
Education at the Elementary and Middle Levels is 200 minutes per
week. The program is flexible and developed in units of
instruction which will adapt to a Secondary Level time-table. One
quarter of the total time for the year is allocated to each
strand.
The required units in Arts Education are designed to be taught in
80% of the required time. An optional inter-related unit
consisting of studies in all four strands appears at the end of the
curriculum guide. This optional unit is intended to be taught when
the total 200 minutes per week is available for Arts Education.
The chart on the following page provides an overview of the grade
nine program, including unit headings, sample themes and optional
content.
Program Overview
*Time for locally-determined options may
be gained by reducing the required areas of study by no more than
20%.