Instructional strategies

Reseach-based instructional strategies utilized in the music classroom

• Employ strategies of "best practice"

• Differentiated instruction

• Providing clear objectives

• Provide exemplars and rubrics of student work

• Exhibit student accomplishments

• Utilize writing skills for self evaluations after concerts

• Address multiple intelligences

  • interpersonal

  • intrapersonal

  • kinesthetic

  • logical-mathematical

  • musical

  • verbal-linguistic

  • visual-spatial

• Employ MUSIC best practices

  • Edwin Gordon: Music Learning Theory

  • facilitate class rehearsals

  • facilitate student modeling of playing/performing/singing

  • provide listening experiences

  • model & share knowledge

  • model critiquing music

  • model playing musical instrument

  • model singing

  • provide listening models (recordings)

  • encourage student modeling