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National Core Arts Standards (NCAS)
Arts Education Standards and 21
st
Century Skills - cont.
Collaboration
Collaboration is in many ways the engine that drives our economy and our sense of shared culture and is
an inherent part of arts instruction, whether the collaboration includes all the students in a performing
cast or ensemble, the partnership between a single artist and his or her peers and audience, or in a
shared visual arts project that incorporates the ideas and techniques of multiple young artists.
Furthermore, standards-based arts instruction, by its very nature, engages students with each another,
helping them:
With a focus on processes, enduring understandings, essential
questions, and assessments, these arts standards represent a
new and innovative approach to arts education that will serve
students, teachers, parents, and decision-makers now and in
the future.
Develop, implement, and communicate new ideas to others effectively.
Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feed-
back into the work.
Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to
adopting new ideas.
View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-
term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes.
Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams.
Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accom-
plish a common goal.
Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and values the individual contributions
made by each team member.