Beth Tfiloh’s Creative Arts Department provides a far-ranging curriculum in creative and performing arts including visual arts, instrumental and choral music, dance, music theory, film and digital video editing, technical theater, and stage craft. Our outstanding Middle and High School theater productions have played to sell-out crowds and our High School productions have earned a growing list of awards from the cappies student theater review program and the Baltimore Theater Awards Program.
The curriculum and philosophy of Beth Tfiloh Creative Arts Department provides a comprehensive foundation of Arts education which produces a “well rounded” creative student and begins the journey of lifelong learning in the Arts. The Maryland State Essential Learner Outcomes and Indicators forms the basis for our Creative Arts curriculum. Each child is encouraged to reach his or her own individual potential at his or her own pace.
Beth Tfiloh’s music and visual art programs encompass the five National Arts Standards Learning goals:
1. Perceiving and responding: aesthetics
2. Historical, cultural & social context
3. Creative expression & production
4. Criticism
5. Habits of mind