This plan provides students the opportunity to express fingerboard  understanding on string instruments, a skill opening many avenues to musical expression. The provided materials can be used and manipulated by teachers to assist with student understanding one string at a time. This technology, which is free and already used in classrooms, is intuitive to the teacher and student. 

This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Instrumental Music Standards of learning, and is specifically geared toward secondary orchestra directors.

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for high school instrumental music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards levels: beginning, intermediate, advanced and artist.

In this video (4:43), a Virginia music educator demonstrates how to compose and improvise music by creating a variation of a musical phrase using the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. technique.

In this video (7:06), a Virginia Music Educator shares strategies for reinforcing note learning and string technique. The foundational skills identified focus on correct hand position, finger placement and positions, and finger patters.