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