BTS Arts Program History
Program Requirements
BTS Arts in Action
Your Roles & Responsibilities
Program Support
100

What BTS stands for

What is Beverley Taylor Sorenson? 

100

The amount of time an educator has to complete their endorsement if they do not have it when hired.

What is three years?

100

The feeling your students should experience in your BTS Arts classroom?

What is JOY? (happy, fun, excited, fulfilled, etc. are all acceptable)

100

The face of the program at the school level.

Who is YOU! (The BTS Arts educator)

100

Your direct supervisor.

Who is the principal or administrator at your school?

200

The four art forms funded by the BTS Arts program

What is Drama, Dance, Music, and Visual Art?

200

The kind of license a BTS Arts Educator is required to have.

What is an early childhood, elementary, or secondary teaching license?

200

Instructional time should not be less than this per class, with kindergarten as an exception.

What is 30 minutes?

200

Seating charts, classroom setup, warning systems, positive and logical consequences, etc.

What are classroom management techniques you should establish in your classroom?

200

How many Campus Connection Days you will attend at BYU each year.

What is two? (Fall and Spring)

300

The year in which the Utah Legislature adopted the BTS Arts program

What is 2008?

300

Three things the school is responsible for providing for the program.

What is instructional space, materials, and supplies?

300

It is suggested that each school conduct one of these once a year, or in the case of schools who share an arts educator, every other year.

What is an Arts Night?

300

BTS Arts educators are expected to collaborate with them to identify and implement experiences where the arts can enhance core subjects in an authentic and meaningful way.

Who are classroom teachers? (or grade-level teams)

300

An advocacy organization created to promote the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program.

What is Friends of BTS Arts?

400

The mission of the BTS Arts program is “To provide every Utah elementary student with high quality arts learning and _____.'

What is "arts integration experiences"?

400

The platform where you will complete two online learning courses (an Onboarding course and a Year-long course).

What is Canvas? (usbe.instructure.com)

400

A regularly scheduled time for the BTS Arts educator and the classroom teacher to meet.

What is collaborative planning time?

400

What you should ask for from the teachers at your school to assist in your lesson planning.

What is a curriculum map?

400

The director of Art Works For Kids and Friends of BTS Arts.

Who is Lisa Cluff?

500

LEAs and schools are supported by three groups:

1. The Utah State Board of Education

2. Their partnering university/college

3. ?

What is "Art Works For Kids"?

500

The date that your yearly schedule should be submitted online to BTS Arts leadership each year.

What is September 30th?

500

What research has found to be the most effective model of arts-integrated instruction in BTS schools.

What is side-by-side instruction?

500

A team that the arts educator can serve on to set arts goals for the school and plan/support art events.

What is a school arts team?

500

Having students write letters to legislative representatives, inviting the community to an arts performance, displaying the BTS Arts signage, etc.

What are types of school-based advocacy efforts?

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