Instrumental students will learn strategies and skills to effectively perform with dynamic balance as an instrumental ensemble. Students will experience and execute various exercises to achieve balance as a trio, section, instrument family, and full ensemble.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This plan outlines an approach for implementing an approachable stick control exercise for percussionists performing on snare, mallets, and timpani. Additionally, it includes strategies to integrate percussionists into most concert wind warm-up sessions (using duple subdivision). The plan also includes ideas on including auxiliary/accessory percussion.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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.
Material Type: Reading
Students will demonstrate understanding of rhythmic symbols and their values (whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes/rests). Students will create note trees to make connections between musical rhythms and mathematics. Students will apply their knowledge of rhythm to express their musical ideas and engage more deeply with music.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for high school music theory in a chart format.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
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.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
In this session, VDOE Reading Specialist Carmen Kurek shares how to effectively implement and connect to literacy strategies in the elementary resource classroom.
Material Type: Lecture, Lecture Notes
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
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.
Material Type: Lecture
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.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning, instructional resources, and professional learning resources available to all Virginia music educators.
Material Type: Lecture
In this narrated presentation, the Coordinator of Fine Arts explains updates to the VDOE fine arts program for the start of the 24-25 school year.
Material Type: Lecture
