Overview
Description
Discussion of music development, assessment, management, and school culture in the middle school setting. Includes field experience in a local middle school.
Units
Lecture2
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- take part in successful teaching experiences with middle school students under the mentorship of experienced teachers.
- indentify best practices of various components of teaching, e.g. curricular choices, sequencing, and assessment, utilized by middle school music teachers.
- discuss how students of different abilities can be accommodated in the music classroom.
- indentify classroom management strategies and describe the impact that management (or lack thereof) has on a music classroom.
- reflect upon and compare curricular choices of middle school music teachers.
- observe and apply routines, procedures, and schedules that make middle school music programs work successfully.
- discuss the impact of National, State, and District Standards as well as the Common Core on music programs.
- articulate how students and student learning impact teacher choices in the music classroom through written assignments and verbal discussions.