Counterpoints:

Facilitating Dialouge about Standards Based Education 

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This video includes a roundtable discussion between students, a music teacher, and administrators from Bonny Eagle High School about Standards Based Education. 

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Writing What we Do

A Guide to curriculum mapping and unit design 

 

Essential what? Enduring Understandings? Why is it important to write down what I do in my classroom? Many districts across the state are focused on curriculum mapping and Unit design using a variety of systems for tracking and organizing curriculum, units, and assessments.

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OMG! Standards Based What? 

OMG!  I can't think of any words worse then "Standards" and "Assessments", is there really a way to really communicate standards or assessments to our students in the High School that is clear and that we all can get excited about? 

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Individual Assessments in an Ensemble 

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This is a workshop on assessment practices that I have used in my ensemble courses. 

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Are You Afraid of Technology 

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This is a workshop on the use of technology as a music asseessment tool in your classroom. 

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Teaching Music Through Story: The Fantasia Project

 

This session will give an overview of a standards based unit and associated project with engaging students in an ensemble through exploring connections between music and story.

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Approaching Ellington

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Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington is known to many musicians as one of the most influential of all Jazz musicians walk our Earth. This session will be a round table discussion about how to approaching teaching about Ellington and how to approach his rich library of music.  

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Student Choice:  Engaging Students in Task Design ­Make the concert THEIRS 

 

This session will be co-presented by Jan Gill (RSU 73) and her son Jake Sturtevant .  Both will present examples of strategies that allow students to choose, arrange, and perform songs.

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Chord Progression Unit

 

This unit happens in guitar class, and the focus is on understanding chord progressions in the context of how our ear is accustom to hearing them, how they typically happen in songs, and how to begin hearing them and learning them by ear in the context of a project.

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