employment. Thus, at minimum, the educated individual must possess sufficient reading, language, scientific, and mathematic skills that enhance independent living. Of these skills, reading and language skills are most important because they are basic to the acquisition of all skills that students need to function as social beings. Increasingly, however, modern employers are requiring a complex set of skills that include higher-order intellectual abilities such as critical thinking and problem-solving. These skills are a natural part of the performing arts process.
To succeed in teaching the whole student, educators must provide students with a variety of learning experiences. One way to classify the school curriculum is dividing it between content subjects and process subjects. The content subjects are social education, environmental education, science, personal development, and technology studies. The process subjects are language, art, drama, mathematics, music, and movement. Neither subject area is given more weight than the other; they work to
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