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will be starting Monday, these all relate to a theme. I'm doing
Bats, Spiders, and things that go bump in the night for the
last 2 weeks of October. Depending on the grade level, the
skills differ, but include major and minor keys, dramatizing a
story with sound effects, locomotor and non-locomotor movement,
reading rhythms from notation, and expressive techniques.
This is for K-6 general music.
In band, my units follow basically the same pattern-a few major
areas of focus for 2-3 weeks at a time, working on specific
pieces of music.
Band Coach
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> I teach music education methods at
>
> that they will be asked to submit unit plans for student
> teaching. Has anyone here had to submit unit plans for
> music instruction? Have the plans been authentic music
> instruction (as opposed to teaching about pioneers, math
> skills, geography, etc. using music)?
Every year; these are discussed with the principal and with my
head of department (a non-musician, he's the deputy principal
actually). What we actually look at is the registering process
of topics and sub-topics - when did we start, when did we
finish, what instruments were used to measure student
understanding, etc - at each year level. This forms part of
the annual competency review in our district.
As a student teacher it was expected that I would submit a
unit overview to my final supervising teacher after discussing
the required content during my teaching stint. We also had to
develop unit plans covering particular topics (real music:
jazz and aleatory [the music created by applying
stochastic or
chance processes] for me) for the curriculum units.
Melanie
My
school district does not ask for us to submit written
plans to them. I do teach somewhat in units. Once in
awhile it may be something like "Native Americans" (as you
had mentioned), but other times my unit might be something
along the lines of fast/slow, high/low (etc.). I am just
finishing up a mini-unit with my firsts on loud/soft right
now.
King 3B
At
my district, we are required to submit "Lesson Plans". Not
that anyone ever looks at them, but the teachers who don't turn
them in are gone the next year. Easy to put two and two
together.
state does any audit, like they did last year in my district,
the state can terminate the employment of any non-complying
teacher.