Strategies for Teaching: High School General Music / Edition 1

by Keith P. Thompson, Gloria J. Kiester

Overview

The Strategies for Teaching series helps music teachers implement the K-12 National Music Education Standards and MENC: The National Association for Music Education's prekindergarten standards.

Strategies for Teaching High School General Music features:
·Fifty-eight strategies that reflect a variety of teaching and learning styles;
·Step-by-step instructions, each consisting of six parts: objective, materials, prior knowledge and experiences, procedures, indicators of success, and follow-up;
·-Ideas and resources designed to help in curriculum development, lesson planning, and assessment of music learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565450851
Publisher:	R&L Education
Publication date:	05/28/1997
Series:	Strategies for Teaching Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	122
Product dimensions:	8.51(w) x 11.11(h) x 0.35(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Standard 1: Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music Chapter 2 Standard 2: Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music Chapter 3 Standard 3: Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments Chapter 4 Standard 4: Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines Chapter 5 Standard 5: Reading and notating music Chapter 6 Standard 6: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music Chapter 7 Standard 7: Evaluating music and music performances Chapter 8 Standard 8: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts Chapter 9 Standard 9: Understanding music in relation to history and culture

Editorial Reviews

For high school music teachers, this guide provides 58 strategies for teaching general music classes, following the K-12 National Music Education Standards and published in partnership with the MENC: The National Association for Music Education. The authors do not suggest course offerings or curriculum content but provide examples of activities to develop skills within the framework that learning about music is most effective in active ways and through aural experience. Strategies include step-by-step instructions outlining objectives, materials, prior knowledge and experience needed, procedures, indicators of success, and follow-up for expanding learning. Strategies are organized around the nine National Music Education Standards relating to singing, performing on instruments, improvising, composing and arranging music, reading and notion, listening and analysis, evaluating music and performances, understanding relationship between the arts and other disciplines, and music in relation to history and culture.

Reference & Research Book News August 2007

For high school music teachers, this guide provides 58 strategies for teaching general music classes, following the K-12 National Music Education Standards and published in partnership with the MENC: The National Association for Music Education. The authors do not suggest course offerings or curriculum content but provide examples of activities to develop skills within the framework that learning about music is most effective in active ways and through aural experience. Strategies include step-by-step instructions outlining objectives, materials, prior knowledge and experience needed, procedures, indicators of success, and follow-up for expanding learning. Strategies are organized around the nine National Music Education Standards relating to singing, performing on instruments, improvising, composing and arranging music, reading and notion, listening and analysis, evaluating music and performances, understanding relationship between the arts and other disciplines, and music in relation to history and culture.

Reference & Research Book News