Jacob Wright
Standard 2: The teacher of PK-12 music has skills in creating, arranging, and improvising.
Whether teaching in an elementary or secondary setting. It is vital that a music teacher know how to create, arrange, and improvise music. The most common way this is applied is through teaching and learning jazz. In middle school and high school band settings, jazz ensembles are a part of the curriculum and the majority of jazz is improvisation. A director who can explain and teach improvisation, or better yet successfully improvise themselves sets their students up for the highest levels of success.
As a teacher I will be able to help my students develop their own skills in creating, arranging, and improvising music. Throughout my high school and college education I have had opportunites to learn and perform in all sorts of ensemble settings as well as arrange music for these performing groups. Most recently I have arranged and performed, for an octet, a tune by Micheal Brecker. I have also on numerous occasions been featured as a soloist with the jazz ensembles and combos at K-State. These skills I have developed in arranging and improvising allow me to both aurally present and verbally explain the concepts of creating, arranging, and improvising to my students.
Artifacts I have attached include a composition example I created for a high school Music Theory class and a video of me playing the Bebop tune "Confirmation" by Charlie Parker.
Standard 2: The teacher of PK-12 music has skills in creating, arranging, and improvising.
Whether teaching in an elementary or secondary setting. It is vital that a music teacher know how to create, arrange, and improvise music. The most common way this is applied is through teaching and learning jazz. In middle school and high school band settings, jazz ensembles are a part of the curriculum and the majority of jazz is improvisation. A director who can explain and teach improvisation, or better yet successfully improvise themselves sets their students up for the highest levels of success.
As a teacher I will be able to help my students develop their own skills in creating, arranging, and improvising music. Throughout my high school and college education I have had opportunites to learn and perform in all sorts of ensemble settings as well as arrange music for these performing groups. Most recently I have arranged and performed, for an octet, a tune by Micheal Brecker. I have also on numerous occasions been featured as a soloist with the jazz ensembles and combos at K-State. These skills I have developed in arranging and improvising allow me to both aurally present and verbally explain the concepts of creating, arranging, and improvising to my students.
Artifacts I have attached include a composition example I created for a high school Music Theory class and a video of me playing the Bebop tune "Confirmation" by Charlie Parker.
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