The attached infographic resource document describes ways to engage English Learners in music classrooms by making learning visible, supporting the language of music, connecting learning to students' backgrounds and skills, using cooperative learning structures and strategies, and reducing cognitive load and allowing processing time.
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In June 2022, the Virginia Department of Education fine arts program hoste a music and culture Institute for Virginia music educators to collaborate with and learn from musicians from Southwest Virginia. This resource list was used by the educator team to build background knowledge, and educators and clinicians provided additional resources and suggested classroom activities. This resource page is a short collection of resources that can be used by music educators to respectfully include music and culture from Southwest Virginia in music classroom instruction.
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In this session, VDOE Reading Specialist Carmen Kurek shares how to effectively implement and connect to literacy strategies in the elementary resource classroom.
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This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for middle school choral music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced.
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This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for high school music theory in a chart format.
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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.
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This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for elementary and middle school instrumental music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards levels: Elementary, MS Beginning, MS Intermediate and MS Advanced.
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This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for high school choral music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards levels: beginning, intermediate, advanced, and artist.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for middle and high school music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards from grades six through twelve.
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This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for elementary general music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards from grades kindergarten through fifth.
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Participants will engage with technologies that facilitate creative music making and discuss where student imagination belongs in standards-based curricula.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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!
Material Type: Lecture
Kadencia will provide a workshop on Afro-Puerto Rican music history, instrumentation and Bomba and Plena in its traditional percussive form.
Material Type: Lecture
s workshop will focus on the basics of incorporating guitar and ukulele into your music program.
Material Type: Lecture
There are specific strategies that can assist us as we plan and present instruction to students with disabilities and differences. Accommodations can be transferred to music classrooms and ensembles. Through careful adaptations and modifications when needed, we can truly meet the needs of all students.
Material Type: Lecture
Drawing on walls, banging on pots, dressing up, singing and dancing like everybody’s watching are ways we get ourselves out into the world. In this webinar, we’ll discuss creative thinking and joy in arts learning for students and teachers. We’ll laugh about best intentions, consider best practices in a new age, and celebrate transforming K-12 students into die-hard arts enthusiasts! Clayton Singleton is a Virginia artist, illustrator, author, and arts educator.
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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.
Material Type: Lecture
This session will use various cognitive routines (such as "See-Think-Wonder") to guide educators on how to lead classroom discussions of printed music which uses traditional and nontraditional notation, with young students. Concepts and strategies covered in this session will focus on the Music Standards of Learning of the strand: Critical Thinking and Communication.
Material Type: Lecture
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.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This resource is intended to be used by educators, school, and division leadership to evaluate instructional materials for quality. When lesson plans, unit plans, and other instructional activities are from outside sources, division staff and educators may use and adapt these key features to evaluate the materials. In addition, these key features can be used as a guide for locally developed instructional materials that support the curriculum.
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