Assignment 3

1. A long-term goal is something that is not to specific which someone will hope to achieve at a later date. This could be something like I plan to have the students understand and appreciate musical by the end of the school year. A short-term goal has to relate to your long term goal, it is something that will help you achieve your long-term goal. For the last long-term goal which I stated before a short –term goal would be having the students research a musical that they have been interested in.

2. A Music concept is a grouping of information that is collected together because they have some of the same properties. Some examples that were given in the text are rhythm, melody, texture, dynamics, tone color, or timbre, and form.

3. When teachers are talking about musical skill it deals with looking at the progress of the student. If they are improving and becoming better than they are becoming better at their musical skills. There is three different areas that the book talks about when looking at the students skill level. This is musical performance which could have to perform or sing a piece of music. Then there is perception and understanding of musical concepts this is a very easy to see if the students understand the musical skills by testing them with a test or quiz. Last thing is acquisition and retention of information about music which again away that a teacher could test for the is by test or quizzes.

4. In the book they explain eight easy steps that teacher could use when writing lesson plans but with all lesson plans there needs to be a lot of detail and planning that go into each and everyone.

a) What is the activity?

b) Whom is the lesson for?

c) What concepts do you want to teach?

d) What materials do you need?

e) What do you want to do?

f) How are you going to do it?

*Preliminary

*Main Content

g) How will you tie everything together?

h) Did you teach what you thought you were going to?

5. As it is stated in the book there is nine national standards in music education which are..

I. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

II. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

III. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments

IV. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

V. Reading and notating music

VI. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

VII. Evaluating music and musical performances

VIII. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts

IX. Understanding music in relation to history and culture

6. I believe that music is a very important to a child. There is many different things that music will help child do and skills that they need to learn some of the examples is social skills, motor skills, listening to directions, learning to be led by other not just taking control. When teaching the child music it is not about making sure that they are really good at it but giving student many choices to enjoy and appreciate music.