NAEA Position Statements

As an affiliate, PAEA endorses NAEA’s platform and position statements which relate to national issues or topics of interest to the profession and/or field of visual arts education and advances the mission of the organization.

You can visit NAEA's page on Position Statements HERE.

Click below for each individual position statement updated August 2018. These are one page documents and easy to print and pass along.

• 21st Century Skills and Visual Arts Education

• Art Educators with Disabilities

• Arts Integration

• Attracting Diversity into the Profession

• Benefits of Art Museum Learning in Education

• Certified/Licensed Visual Art Educators in Pre-K through 12 School Settings

• Collaborations between the Art Educator and the Teaching Artist

• Community Collaborations including those with Cultural Organizations

• Connections Between Instruction and Assessment

• Deaccessioning Objects in Art Museum Collections

• Digital Citizenship

• Distance Learning in Art Education

• Diversity in Visual Art Education

• Early Childhood Art Education

• Ethical use of Copyrighted Imagery and Primary Sources

• Excellence in Art Museum Teaching

• Field Trips/Field-Based Learning/Equity

• Freedom of Speech Through Visual Expression

• Graduation Requirements in the Visual Arts

• Impact of High Stakes and Standardized Testing on Visual Arts Education

• Impact of Visual Arts Workforce Development

• Importance of State or Province Level Agency Directors of Arts Education

• Importance of Visual Arts Supervisors/Administrators in PreK-12 Education

• Instruction, Assessment and Student Learning in the Visual Arts

• Media Arts

• Physical Safety in the Art Classroom

• Positive School Culture and Climate

• PreK-12 Teacher Evaluation in the Visual Arts

• Pre-service Education and its Relationship to Higher Education

• Professional Development

• Regarding Use of Race Based Mascots in Educational Settings
  
  

  • Resource Material Regarding the Use of Indian Mascots

• Relationship of Art Educators to Decision-makers

• Scheduling, Time, Funding and/or Resources for Visual Arts Education

• STEAM Education
  
  

  • STEAM Definitions Document

  • The Prospect of an “A” in STEM Education

  • For the Sake of Science, the Arts Deserve Support

• Student Art Contests and Competitions

• Student Assessment in the Visual Arts Classroom

• Supporting, Sustaining and Retaining Art Education Programs in Colleges and Universities

• Teacher Evaluation and Student Growth

• Use of Imagery, Cultural Appropriation and Socially Just Practices

• Value of Collaborative Research

• Visual Art and Its Relationship to CTE

• Visual Arts as a Core Academic Subject

• Visual Arts Education and Social Justice

• Visual Literacy