Kansas Music Standard #1: The teacher of music has skills in teaching and evaluation techniques for vocal, instrumental, and general music.

Knowledge

• The teacher understands repertoire appropriate for various developmental stages.
• The teacher knows representative works of the past and present from the solo, small ensemble, and large ensemble literature.

Performance

• The teacher performs alone with musical understanding and technical proficiency sufficient to interpret representative works of the past and present.
• The teacher performs in small and large vocal ensembles or instrumental ensembles.
• The teacher demonstrates the ability to access musical and literary resources for vocal and/or instrumental music.
• The teacher develops instrumental pedagogy appropriate for various developmental stages.
• The teacher demonstrates singing effective for instructional purposes.
• The teacher demonstrates functional knowledge of various band and orchestra instruments.

Through many of my undergraduate classes I have been given opportunities to teach general and band music lessons.  These opportunities have helped me develop techniques to teach and evaluate.  In the vocal setting I have been taught how to teach good vocal technique and have evaluated my peers on the execution of good vocal technique.  In the instrumental setting I have the experience of directing a full concert ensemble.  This setting has given me the chance to listen to and address problems in a full ensemble.  For general music I have had the chance to teach mini lessons to students using the rote method.  I believe experiences have prepared me for teaching in a classroom setting. 

 

Artifacts

-UBand Rehearsal

In this artifact you will see a lesson plan that I wrote and taught for the Kansas State University Band.  This band gives music education majors a full            semester's experience of teaching in a band setting.  This video demonstrates my ability to execute a rehearsal and address ensemble issues.  
UBand Rehearsal

-Lesson Plan from 511 on rote teaching a poem or song.

This artifact is a lesson plan I have created for teaching a speech ostinato in a General Music classroom.  This shows my ability to plan a lesson that lays out a technique for teaching a speech ostinato.  This lesson plan has gone into a step by step plan appropriate for the elementary setting.

General Music Lesson Plan