Subarea II. Creative Development and Learning
Understand preprimary-age children's creative development in the visual arts and music.
demonstrating knowledge of strategies for assessing preprimary-age children's emerging levels of creative development in the visual arts and music and for using this information to establish individual creative development goals and design developmentally appropriate learning experiences
recognizing how to provide experiences in the visual arts and music that build preprimary-age children's confidence, creativity, imagination, and personal expression of thoughts and feelings
demonstrating knowledge of how to use the visual arts and music to foster preprimary children's development of personal initiative and persistence in task completion
recognizing how to provide open-ended visual arts and music activities that encourage preprimary-age children's use of materials in self-selected and self-directed ways and reinforce positive self-esteem
demonstrating knowledge of how to plan and implement visual arts and music activities that promote shared problem solving, creativity, and conceptual integration
applying knowledge of how to use the visual arts and music to help preprimary-age children develop and sustain curiosity about the world, including past, present, and future events; trends; relationships; and understandings
demonstrating knowledge of how to build on preprimary children's home cultures and languages to promote their creative development in the visual arts and music
Understand preprimary-age children's development in dance, creative movement, and drama, including dramatic play.
recognizing how to provide opportunities for dance, creative movement, and drama activities, including dramatic play, that build preprimary-age children's confidence, creativity, imagination, and personal expression of thoughts and feelings
recognizing how to provide open-ended dance, creative movement, and drama activities, including dramatic play, that encourage preprimary children's use of materials in self-selected and self-directed ways and reinforce positive self-esteem
demonstrating knowledge of how to use dance, creative movement, and drama activities, including dramatic play, to foster preprimary children's development of personal initiative and persistence in task completion
demonstrating knowledge of how to plan and implement dance, creative movement, and drama activities, including dramatic play, that promote preprimary-age children's shared problem solving, creativity, and conceptual integration
applying knowledge of how to use dance, creative movement, and drama activities, including dramatic play, to help preprimary-age children develop and sustain curiosity about the world, including past, present, and future events, and to develop understanding of key concepts and relationships (e.g., cause and effect, patterns, similarities and differences)
demonstrating knowledge of how to build on preprimary children's home cultures and languages to promote children's development in dance, creative movement, and drama, including dramatic play