Assessment in the Music Classroom

Practical Tips and Activities for Measuring Student Progress-Take the stress out of assessment with this musical playground of activities and singing games your students will love! Elementary music specialist Cristi Cary Miller shares a wealth of material in this easy-to-use resource tohelp identify and define students' musical skills and progress while having a barrel of fun! Designed for students in grades K-5 this creative collection of 18 seasonal songs and activities will provide hours of fun throughoutthe school year while assessing students on rhythm reading steady beat matching pitch solfege vocal tone colors and much more! Make assessments a vital part of your lesson planning this year! 18 songs including: TelephoneTime Hello Neighbors Rhythm Charades Rap Sol La Sol Mi Dance Listen Very Carefully and much more!

Creative Connections is an outstanding resource for general music teachers, compiling specially crafted games, songs, and lesson plans to actively connect new material to prior knowledge. Fully reproducible and designed for grades 2--6, the activities utilize the art of play to introduce, explore, review, apply, transfer, master, and assess musical concepts. The innovative lesson plans are easy to use and enjoyable for teachers and students alike. The activities offer inventive ideas for inexpensive yet creative manipulatives, such as large boxes and small rhythmic dice, beat boards, rhythmic value-sized rhythm cards, stuffed animals, small play tents, and a giant, floor-sized music staff. Also included is a Data CD of the book with templates and visuals for easy projection, classroom sharing, and immediate use. Help your students make the Creative Connection today! / Formation Musicale

One-Minute Theory for the Choral Classroom by Ronald Slabbinck & Holly Shaw-Slabbinck teaches the essentials of music theory without cutting into valuable rehearsal time. The curriculum structured as a collection ofone-minute lessons is designed to target issues of music literacy specific to the choral classroom. The series provides simple and convenient assessment through the use of the Test Bank. The Student Edition providesself-explanatory lessons but can also be used as a great jumping-off point for teaching theory in the context of performance.This edition Doubles as a textbook and a workbook for the choral music classroom. Students arepresented with information that is then reinforced through exercises on the same page. Quiz reviews are included for each Unit as well as a thorough review for the Final Exam.

What a wonderful way to address the National Standards while using your interactive whiteboard! Integrate technology into your classroom with these well-constructed interactive lessons that provide a smooth and easy way to teach improvisation and composition to elementary students (grades 1--4). Each plan starts with a song, chant, or poem - provides prompts for active listening - invites students to improvise as a group and individually - and concludes with a rubric-measured assessment. Kids will have so much fun singing and moving to the songs, playing classroom instruments, and manipulating the cartoon-style graphics on the interactive whiteboard. / Formation Musicale

More Quick-Start Lessons for the Elementary Class-Expand on the basics presented in Music Time: Primary with quick-start lessons and songs for upper elementary age groups. Whether you are a veteran teacher or beginner a teacher in training an elementary classroom teacher oreven a band choir or orchestra director who is now teaching general music for the first time you'll find quality learning material to take you through the year! Pick and choose what works best for your needs from a wide varietyof opening activities music reading songs with accompanying classroom instrument parts partner songs active listening lessons and assessment activities. This all-in-one resource comes with an Enhanced CD of the highest qualityrecordings 2 orchestral masterworks and PDFs of songsheets piano accompaniments instrument parts listening maps and activities that you can project or print. Quick-start your lessons with Music Time! Songs include: MusicRocks Fanga Alafia Yankee Doodle Rock and Roll Rhythms C. C. Rider Follow the Drinkin' Gourd Makin' Music All Day Long This Little Light of Mine Zum Gali Gali Walkin' Down the Street and more! Suggested for Grades 3-6.

A Modern Music Production Course That Makes Basic Music Technology Fun! A perfect approach for students with a passion for music outside of traditional programs, Alfred's Music Tech 101 Teacher's Handbook correlates to Alfred's Music Tech 101 which covers the basics of music technology without heavy technical reading, using plain-English explanations. No musical experience is required, and classroom-tested course material has been developed through years of student feedback. Includes correlating interactive media to stream or download, plus a corresponding website with teacher resources and updates. * No musical experience required * Studies on producing music using modern techniques for college and high school students * A perfect approach for students with a passion for music outside of traditional programs * Cross-platform approach to technology applicable to any software used for music production * Great for students with musical goals outside the classroom * Covers the basics of music technology without heavy technical reading, using plain-English explanations * Simple and straightforward information, reinforced with projects and assessments * Classroom-tested course material, developed through years of student feedback * Includes correlating interactive media to stream or download * Corresponding website with teachers' resources and updates / Tout Instrument

Keyboard Ensemble Pieces-The five volumes of Keyboards Together provides a wealth of enjoyable repertoire for Keyboard players. Containing arrangements and original pieces in two three and four parts they are perfect for classroom use as well as for smaller groups. Original pieces and arrangements of popular tunes. Wide range of styles including rock Latin country jazz pop and dance music. Excellent teaching material for the developing Keyboard group. Five progressively graded volumes. All pieces selected for the Associated Board's Music Medals. Music Medals are assessments and teaching resources that introduce essential musical skills andencourage playing together. Five Medals - Copper Bronze Silver Gold and Platinum - provide goals and celebrate achievement. Copper and Bronze are for beginners Silver Gold and Platinum reward further musical progress. Music Medals assessments cover the following activities: Playing together. Playing solo Musicianship skills.

Keyboard Ensemble Pieces-The five volumes of Keyboards Together provides a wealth of enjoyable repertoire for Keyboard players. Containing arrangements and original pieces in two three and four parts they are perfect for classroom use as well as for smaller groups. Original pieces and arrangements of popular tunes. Wide range of styles including rock Latin country jazz pop and dance music. Excellent teaching material for the developing Keyboard group. Five progressively graded volumes. All pieces selected for the Associated Board's Music Medals. Music Medals are assessments and teaching resources that introduce essential musical skills andencourage playing together. Five Medals - Copper Bronze Silver Gold and Platinum - provide goals and celebrate achievement. Copper and Bronze are for beginners Silver Gold and Platinum reward further musical progress. Music Medals assessments cover the following activities: Playing together. Playing solo Musicianship skills.

Oxford Music Education-This book discusses assessment and its role in teaching and learning music in the classroom. For improving learning and raising standards it puts the case for formative assessment day-by-day rather than summative assessment at the end of key stages. The advice is relevant to classroom and instrumental teachers and the academic community.

Multimedia Visuals for Theory Ear Training and Assessment-Demonstrate and assess with projectable sight and sound keyboard visuals! Discover dozens of ways to use these handy interactive graphics in your classroom all set in a user-friendly PDF format that uses Adobe Reader 9.0 orhigher. Six visuals are presented on the CD-ROM in the Keys of C F G diatonic and pentatonic. Play different patterns of sound as others watch and listen. Show steps and skips high and low ascending and descending patterns and much more. Demonstrate a simple ostinato accompaniment so everyone can see and hear the pattern before transferring it to a pitched classroom instrument. Invite students to compose a pentatonic accompaniment on the spot! Alsoincluded are helpful suggestions by master music educator Cristi Cary Miller on more ways to use these projectable sound graphics to reinforce music theory ear training and assessment. You'll want to keep these great visuallearning tools at your fingertips. Minimize 1 or more of the keyboard graphics on your whiteboard or computer desktop for instant access throughout the day. Great for all your visual learners! Suggested for Grades K-6.

Multicultural Collection of Songs Dances and Fun Facts-Take an exciting musical journey of folk song and dance traditions to all corners of the globe. Learn how to do an Israeli circle dance the German Schottische the Brazilian Samba folk dances from Austria Russia and Mexico anAfrican welcome dance and even country line dancing from the U.S.A! Read about these rich cultures in engaging student articles written at an age-appropriate level and experience their music through folk songs and easy-to-learndance steps that are kid-friendly. The value-packed Book/CD format features reproducible articles and songsheets with lyric translations exceptional standards-based lesson plans complete with lyric pronunciations assessment andextension activities piano/vocal arrangements with choreography and a performance/accompaniment CD recording. There are even recorded pronunciation guides on the CD. And there's more! A DVD is also available (separately or inthe classroom kit) with visual instruction for each dance as demonstrated by John Jacobson and a group of young students. We've got a lot of miles to cover so let's get started! Available: Book/CD DVD Classroom Kit (Book/CD DVD). Suggested for Grades 3-6.

Reinforce Fundamentals Listening and Literacy-Expand your students' knowledge of music fundamentals with this fantastic resource for busy music teachers on the go! 101 Music Activities is filled with fun substantive activities to supplement your elementary musicclasses. 101 self-directed sequential worksheets are divided into chapters including: Reading Rhythm Reading Melody Key Signatures Staff and Letter Names Listening and Literacy. Each activity is geared to NationalStandards and can be used to introduce and reinforce music concepts and as an assessment tool. Student pages are reproducible and the table of contents shows suggested grade levels for each activity. Have fun exploring the basicsthrough a variety of activities presented in a logical sequence for music learning that lasts! Available: Activity Book (with reproducible activity pages). For grades 1-6.

Inspire your students to make some noise with Teach and Play Steel Pans!The five pieces in this book represent an exciting and varied selection of steel-pan music from traditional calypso and soca to a reggae piece and a Beyoncé song. Each piece is broken down into clear and simple steps that show you how to build up the music gradually with your class. Combined with the accompanying DVD – which contains over 50 short clips of the author and a group of KS3 studentsdemonstrating all of the instruments and patterns to each piece – teaching and learning world music has never been so easy or enjoyable.The five pieces are supplemented with valuable background information about the music and culture cross-curricular projects composing ideas advice on assessment and guidance on teaching whole-class world-music ensembles. The material in this book has been designed primarily for use with KS2 and KS3 classes but the addition of higher-ability parts for each piece means the book can be tailored easily to KS4 as well. It is not necessary to own authentic instruments to get the most out of this book as all of the pieces work equally well on classroom alternatives.'This series has been written by a genuine expert who has thorough knowledge of his subject and shares this with the reader in a lively enthusiastic and passionate way. I have never found any books before that are so clear in explaining the fundamentals of these world-music genres and doing so in a format based around practical relevant and achievable tasks is even more remarkable. I can see these books becoming one of those series that every music teacher will have either read or heard about in years to come.'Matt Allen Head of Music Chessington Community College Kingston

Play and Sing Songs in the Music Class with Step-by-Step Projectable Lesson Slides. Par GROSS MARTY / HAINES SALLY. Get on board! Using ukuleles in an elementary general music class can open new experiences for your students. These fun, accessible instruments encourage singing while promoting confidence and musical independence. Ukuleles also provide an additional way for you to observe student progress and assess musical understanding. UKULELES ON BOARD is a collection of sequential lessons that illustrate how teachers can use ukuleles along with other common classroom resources to create engaging, robust musical activities for students. Examples are provided for using ukuleles together with Orff instruments, recorders, a variety of percussion and even jug band instruments. Each unitincludes digital access to step-by-step projectable lesson slides so you can project all the visual cues your students will need. In addition to being easy to learn and fun, the folk songs used throughout the book provide students with cultural and historical connections. The activities and concepts found in UKULELES ON BOARD are based on the National Standards for Music Education. The material has been field-tested in grades 2-4, but is also appropriate for fifth grade students new to the ukulele. This is a valuable guide to using ukuleles to support and enhance the music curriculum in your school. Songs include: Are You Sleeping? (Frere Jacques!), Michael Finnegan, Buffalo Gals, Joe Turner Blues, Shalom Chaverim, I Love the Mountains, Little 'Liza Jane, Hambone, One Bottle of Pop, Pay Me My Money Down, Let Us Chase the Squirrel, Go Tell Aunt Rhody, Old Joe Clark. Suggested for grades 2-5. Get on board! Using ukuleles in an elementary general music class can open new experiences for your students. These fun, accessible instruments encourage singing while promoting confidence and musical independence. Ukuleles also provide an additional way for you to observe student progress and assess musical understanding. Ukuleles On Board! is a collection of sequential lessons that illustrate how teachers can use Ukuleles along with other common classroom resources to create engaging, robust musical activities for students. Examples are provided for using Ukuleles together with Orff instruments, Recorders, a variety of Percussion and even Jug Bandinstruments. Each unit includes digital access to step-by-step projectable lesson slides so you can project all the visual cues your students will need. In addition to being easy to learn and fun, the folk songs used throughout the book provide students with cultural and historical connections. The activities and concepts found in Ukuleles On Board! are based on the National Standards for Music Education. The material has been field-tested in grades 2-4, but is also appropriate for fifth grade students new to the Ukulele. This is a valuable guide to using Ukuleles to support and enhance the music curriculum in your school. Songs include: 'Are You Sleeping? (Frere Jacques!)', 'Michael Finnegan', 'Buffalo Gals', 'Joe Turner Blues', 'Shalom Chaverim', 'I Love the Mountains', 'Little 'Liza Jane', 'Hambone', 'One Bottle of Pop', 'Pay Me My Money Down', 'Let Us Chase the Squirrel', 'Go Tell Aunt Rhody', 'Old Joe Clark and rdquo - . Suggested for grades 2-5. / Etudes et exercices / Date parution : 2018-05-04/ Recueil / Ukulélé