Music Education Content Standard (e-portfolio assignment and rubric).

Provide evidence as to your understanding and competence in relation to each Kansas Music Teacher Standard.

1. Include on the appropriate web page a reflective essay written for each of the nine content standards demonstrating your understanding of the standard and how it applies to you as an effective music teacher.
2. Link 2 forms of evidence (or artifacts) from your coursework and/or field experiences that demonstrating your competence of the content standard. The link is to be imbedded in a description of the artifact. Identify how it reflects the standard and how the artifact impacted you as a music teacher.

What makes an essay “reflective”? A reflective essay requires that you describe your understanding of the content standard and consider what the standard means to you as a music teacher. Describe how you will make use of the content to plan future instruction. Reflective essays should “paint a picture” of your understanding of each standard and are enhanced by cross-referencing specific evidence supplied to support your reflection.

Unsatisfactory	Basic	Proficient	Exemplary
0	1	2	3
Teacher candidate attempts a reflective essay but does not appropriately address the standard.	Teacher candidate’s reflective essay accurately addresses the standard but does not relate their understanding to teaching.	Teacher candidate’s reflective essay addresses the standard appropriately and relates it to teacher on a basic level of application.	Teacher candidate’s reflective essay exhibits a deeper understanding for the standard and its impact on effective music teaching.

What kind(s) of evidence (artifacts) should be supplied? Items to consider might be graded assignments or tests, journals, lesson plans, course notes, lesson reflections, observation notes of student response to instruction, etc. Another form of evidence might be to compare/contrast future instructional planning in relation to state and national standards. Thus, the evidence you submit will likely vary across each of the content standards.

Scoring Key for Artifacts	Unsatisfactory 0	Limited 1	Satisfactory 2
Description of the artifact describing how it reflects competence in the standard.	Provides only the title of the artifact.	Simple description of the artifact.	Clearly describes the artifact and how it reflects the standard.
Analysis of what you've learned	Does not include a description of what was learned through the artifact.	Briefly describes what was learned.	Clearly describes what was learned and how this impacts effective teaching.

Content Standard 4 total point in each category	Reflective Essay Score	Artifact #1 Score	Artifact #2 Score	Total Score for Standard (7 possible)
1 The teacher of music has skills in teaching and evaluation techniques.
2 The teacher of music has skills in improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
3 The teacher of music has skills in composing and arranging music.
4 The teacher of music has skills in reading and writing music.
5 The teacher of music has skills in listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
6 The teacher of music has skills in evaluating music and music performances.
7 The teacher of music has an understanding of music in relation to various historical periods and cultures.
8 The teacher of music has skills in establishing effective music-learning environments.
9 The teacher of music advocates for the school music program in the community at large.