Teaching Units for Educators
What does this site offer music teachers?
Each unit includes:
- Full Score Analysis used for developing the teaching strategies. (Melodic, Harmonic, Rhythmic, Formal, Historical, & Cultural analysis)
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Teacher's Guide that provides strategies and activities:
- Detailed description of all activities in the student guide.
- Warm-up strategies that reflect the elements from the musical piece
- Resources: Recordings, books, articles, related compositions, web-sites that would aid in teaching this piece.
- Assessment of student learning with answers guides and/or grading rubrics and rubrics, rating scales, or check lists for assessing proficiency achievement
- Additional information on the piece that would be useful to the teacher-conductor.
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Student Guide providing your students with
- Learning goals
- Instructional guidance and activities for:
- Historical Background and cultural context: on the piece, composer, genre, style, making connection common with visual art.
- Rhythmic concepts involved in the composition
- Melodic movement and the relationship to other elements.
- Harmonic foundation and relationship to other elements.
- Form Analysis providing examples of overall form in graphic representation.
- Practice Guide: Rhythms, scale patterns, etc. extracted from the score that the student is to practice at home and that can be utilized in ensemble warm-up.
- Visual examples of interdisciplinary connections.
- Assessments for student understanding of the concepts and skill development.
- Glossary of necessary and useful terminology to understand the composition
- Webquests offering your students extended instruction of literature and musical concept
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