Kansas Music Standard #1: The teacher of music has skills in teaching and evaluation techniques for vocal, instrumental, and general music.

Knowledge

• The teacher understands repertoire appropriate for various developmental stages.
• The teacher knows representative works of the past and present from the solo, small ensemble, and large ensemble literature.

Performance

• The teacher performs alone with musical understanding and technical proficiency sufficient to interpret representative works of the past and present.
• The teacher performs in small and large vocal ensembles or instrumental ensembles.
• The teacher demonstrates the ability to access musical and literary resources for vocal and/or instrumental music.
• The teacher develops instrumental pedagogy appropriate for various developmental stages.
• The teacher demonstrates singing effective for instructional purposes.
• The teacher demonstrates functional knowledge of various band and orchestra instruments.

Insert a reflective essay describing your understanding of the content standard as a music teacher. Describe how you will make use of the content to plan future instruction. Reference specific evidence to support your reflection. Items you consider as evidence (artifacts) might be graded assignments or tests, journals, lesson plans, course notes, lesson reflections, observation notes of student response to instruction, etc. For each of the two or more artifacts, write a brief description of the artifact analyzing what you learned and how this artifact demonstrates your competence on the music teacheing standard. Then create a Hyperlink to the supporting document.