After viewing the video “Anatomy of a Jam Session” from Virginia Roots: A Journey Through Appalachian Music, Blue Ridge Public Media, students will collaborate to create a performance of a two or three chord old-time song with available classroom instruments in the style of a jam session.
Students sing and identify melodic contours.
Virginia’s music instructional programs reinforce Virginia’s 22 Workplace Readiness Skills These skills are organized around three core areas that promote opportunities and reinforce student understanding of Virginia’s workplace readiness skills: Personal qualities and abilities, interpersonal skills, and professional competencies.This document highlights ways that music education students are preparing for 21st Century Workplace Readiness Skills.
The Music Standards of Learning (SOL) are intentionally and directly aligned with the skills outlined in the Profile of a Virginia Graduate. The following music education goals in this document are taken directly from the 2020 Music SOL document and re-organized to demonstrate alignment to the “5 Cs”.
The purpose of this resource is to support school and division administrators in observations and coaching conversations for music teachers in Virginia public schools. The strategies listed support effective instruction connected to skills and concepts of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning.
Bring Music and Language Arts together in a Google Slide Show lesson. Using both prior knowledge and observation, students will compare and contrast musical instruments as they create a Diamante style poem.
Students demonstrate expressive qualities of music through movement.
Students explore first and second endings by singing and moving.
Students identify musical form through movement.
Students learn to identify tension and release within a piece of music.
This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning and is specifically geared toward K-8 general music teachers.
Patterns in Music is a cross-curricular lesson designed by an Elementary Music teacher to support Math instruction. Created By: Gina Dickerson Powhatan County Public Schools.
After learning basic Appalachian dance movement related to flatfooting, clogging, buckdance, or the Charleston. Students will create a rhythmic cue sheet diagraming the steps of a newly created dance based on original Appalachian dance steps, using traditional or iconic rhythmic notation. Students will choose Appalachian music to demonstrate and/or teach their original dance to others providing the cue sheet as a reference.
Students explore whispering, speaking, singing, and calling voices.
Students read, perform, and compose four-beat rhythmic patterns.
This webinar provides an overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning and is adapted to meet the needs of Orchestra Directors.
In this webinar we will discuss the Creative Process strand in the Music standards and share ideas on implementation in the elementary general music room. We will explore adapting current best practices in order to make conscious the inherent elements of the creative process. We will examine new methods of adding elements of the creative process into the classroom, through virtual, blended, and in-person instruction practices.
The intersection of our musical being and creativity can provide a new, refreshing, and confident outlook on the way forward. In fact, this “great reset” can usher in a revitalized, newly inspired approach to music making. Let the possibilities begin!
In this webinar, we will explore ways that teachers and students can use digital tools in the secondary music classroom for creation and investigation. Topics addressed will include project ideas, integration of audio creation tools into the class structure and environment, and practical issues to consider when choosing hardware and software for these projects.