Professional Learning: Fine Arts through the Lens of Multilingual Learners

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Participants will explore resources, learn strategies, and practice instructional routines that elevate language and enhance language acquisition in fine arts classrooms. Participants will explore resources that integrate English language development into the fine arts curriculum, learn strategies to support the development of English, and practice instructional routines that elevate language in fine arts classrooms.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Visualizing Music: Creating Soundscapes and Graphic Scores

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In this lesson, students will compose and notate “soundscapes” using found instruments. In preparing to notate their compositions, students will consider the limitations and benefits of extant notation systems.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Copyright and Digital Citizenship

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Students will explore copyright and intellectual property standards as they relate to music, music technology, and digital citizenship. Students will identify and apply their knowledge of copyright law and licensure to select appropriate licenses for an original work. Students will then analyze copyrighted material and understand how to obtain appropriate permission to use the material.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Essentials of Copyright

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Students will explore copyright and intellectual property standards as they relate to music, music technology, and digital citizenship. Students will apply their understanding of copyright law to complete the copyright process for an original work. Students will further apply their understanding by participating in a class debate about real-world copyright issues raised by a song that sets original lyrics to an older song.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Media Lesson Starter: Musical Museum Tour and Instrument Design

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Students will tour online museums to examine instruments from other cultures. Students will use research from museum tours and understanding of sound to design an original instrument following engineering design principles.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Media Lesson Starter: Integrating Digital Audio Workstations

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Students integrate the use of a digital audio workstation (DAW) to understand musical theory including timbre (layering), composition (creative thinking), and voicing. Students learn various DAWs in order to use a variety of technologies within a design process by creating new, useful, or imaginative musical creations.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Performing Portraits

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Watch a portrait of a student come to life with the student’s own composition and performance through technology! Students will perform and record a musical greeting using their name and create access to their performance through a portrait with QR codes and websites/applications such as Flipgrid and/or ChatterPix Kids.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Media Lesson Starter: Music Video

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Students will collaborate to produce a music video of an assigned piece. Using a digital audio workstation (DAW), students record themself on their individual part. Students create individual visual storyboards for the music video then collaborate as an ensemble to make a master storyboard. Using the student storyboard ideas, the teacher and students film and edit the video to align with the audio and create a final music video.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Media Lesson Starter: Community Soundtrack

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Students work to create a soundtrack of songs that represent their community and their shared values. Songs curated in the list will include narrative justification for their selection.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Professional Learning: Rehearsal Strategies for Engaging English Learners in Music

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Dr. Angela Ammerman shares rehearsal strategies specifically geared toward English Learners (ELs). Learn about resources and strategies to provide language support and engage English Learners in the music classroom. 

Material Type: Lecture

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Building Instruments from Around the World

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Students will learn about instruments from a variety of cultures and discuss how these instruments were used. Students will create an instrument from various materials to experiment with sound and playing technique.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Rhythmic Menu: Favorite Food Rhythms

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Students will learn the basics of rhythmic literacy by correlating the number of syllables in a word to a rhythmic value. Students will select their favorite food that has toppings (pizza, ice cream sundae, cake, cookie, or sandwich) and create rhythmic patterns using words with varying numbers of syllables.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Professional Learning: Overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for Instrumental Music: Orchestra

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

Material Type: Visual Media

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Overview

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This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning and is specifically geared toward K-8 general music teachers.

Material Type: Visual Media

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Professional Learning: Overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for Instrumental Music in Orchestra

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

Material Type: Reading

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Professional Learning: 2023 Instrumental Music SOL Overview for Orchestra Directors

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This webinar provides an overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning and is adapted to meet the needs of Orchestra Directors.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Applying the Creative Process to the Music Classroom

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This resource provides additional context to the Creative Process strand of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning including sample lesson strategies to adapt components of creative processes to the music classroom. Components of creative processes may include inquiry and questioning, researching, interpreting, generating, testing, discussing ideas and solutions, refining work, and reflecting on the process, product, and performance.  

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Progression Chart: Music Standards of Learning - Choral (Middle School)

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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.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Progression Chart: Music Standards of Learning - Instrumental Music (Elementary and Middle School)

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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.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts