Jacob Wright
Standard 5: The teacher of PK-12 music has skills in selecting, analyzing, interpreting, presenting, and evaluating music and music performance within the context of music education.
In a music classroom, the pieces of music we teach are our curriculum. As music teachers we design our content to fit our assigned curriculum, that is why it is so crucial that a teacher be able to select, analyze, interpret, present, and evaluate music to determine if it is of a high quality and valuable to teach or not. There is so much music in the world and a lot of it is of a low quality, or of low educational value. This does not mean that a swing version of "Jingle Bells" cannot be fun and educational for a high school jazz ensemble, but playing poorly arranged and frankly boring pieces turns students off because there is no challenge, there is not anything to grab their ear and keep them interested.
Throughout my time at K-State I have had the opportunity to choose literature for big bands, combos, concert bands, and chamber ensembles. Some of my selections were well thought out and high quality pieces. Others were not, and I learned why those pieces were not used. These music selection opportunites will help me in organizing my own programs and curriculum; selecting high quality music that is enjoyable to learn and perform as well as serves an educational purpose. Not only is it important for me as the teacher to have these skills, I want my students to develop these skills as well. I plan to open dialogue with my students about why music has been selected, this is not to say I will tell them every detail of why I chose the piece, but rather I will ask them guiding questions about the music. Leading them to interpret and analyze the music themselves. A great example of this is Gustav Holst's "First Suite in Eb for Military Band". This piece is just as much a standard in the band repertoire as "The Grapes of Wrath" is in literature. Selecting music of this caliber and guiding my students to develop these skills will help me teach my students how to be complete musicians and not just players of their instruments.
Artifacts attached include an excel spreadsheet of a library of sheet music I have organized and, as well as a unit study for a piece selected to perform with the Blue Valley Northwest Concert Band during my student teaching semester.
Standard 5: The teacher of PK-12 music has skills in selecting, analyzing, interpreting, presenting, and evaluating music and music performance within the context of music education.
In a music classroom, the pieces of music we teach are our curriculum. As music teachers we design our content to fit our assigned curriculum, that is why it is so crucial that a teacher be able to select, analyze, interpret, present, and evaluate music to determine if it is of a high quality and valuable to teach or not. There is so much music in the world and a lot of it is of a low quality, or of low educational value. This does not mean that a swing version of "Jingle Bells" cannot be fun and educational for a high school jazz ensemble, but playing poorly arranged and frankly boring pieces turns students off because there is no challenge, there is not anything to grab their ear and keep them interested.
Throughout my time at K-State I have had the opportunity to choose literature for big bands, combos, concert bands, and chamber ensembles. Some of my selections were well thought out and high quality pieces. Others were not, and I learned why those pieces were not used. These music selection opportunites will help me in organizing my own programs and curriculum; selecting high quality music that is enjoyable to learn and perform as well as serves an educational purpose. Not only is it important for me as the teacher to have these skills, I want my students to develop these skills as well. I plan to open dialogue with my students about why music has been selected, this is not to say I will tell them every detail of why I chose the piece, but rather I will ask them guiding questions about the music. Leading them to interpret and analyze the music themselves. A great example of this is Gustav Holst's "First Suite in Eb for Military Band". This piece is just as much a standard in the band repertoire as "The Grapes of Wrath" is in literature. Selecting music of this caliber and guiding my students to develop these skills will help me teach my students how to be complete musicians and not just players of their instruments.
Artifacts attached include an excel spreadsheet of a library of sheet music I have organized and, as well as a unit study for a piece selected to perform with the Blue Valley Northwest Concert Band during my student teaching semester.
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jazz_library__hs_college_.xlsx | |
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