9 Music Standards & Answer to Assertion

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

What Happens in Teacher Education?-Assertion #1

• Are the mission and goals of our undergraduate teacher preparation programs consistent with the aspirations for K-12 achievement inherent in the Standards?
• I feel that they are consistent, and depending on how much future teachers work for it, these standards may be inherent in them.  Everyone is musical in one way or another and can meet these standards if they work hard and understand how important they are.  It is our job as teachers to fully achieve these standards.
• How is each competency expressed in the Standards addressed within and across the components of our teacher preparation curriculum for  each arts discipline?
• These standards need to be fully embedded into one's mind because they are important for teaching the arts.
• Is curricular time and weight allocated to courses in the specific arts discipline, general studies, and professional education adequate to achieve the requisite artistic, intellectual, and pedagogical competencies?
• I believe so, once again one will get out of something what one wants to put into it.  So, if we take the time to do so and pay attention, courses are adequate to achieve the requisite artistic, intellectual, and pedagogical competencies.
• What expectations do we have for developing competence and capacity for artistic educational leadership in the classroom, with various types of groups, and in the community at large?
• We want to be able to help children be creative and artistic within the classroom both by themselves and within groups.  It is our job as teachers to adjust curriculum to benefit each student.
• How should our programs promote, by requirement and example, the "habits of mind" necessary for performance and growth of a teacher?
• Programs should guide students drill these music standards into them.  Activities could be done in the classroom to show understanding of the standards and if studied well enough will become "habits of mind."  These standards are necessary to know so the more they are studied, the better of we will be.