our goals

DISCIPLINARY LITERACY

WHAT IT MEANS:  Show literacy in discipline through understanding and demonstrating concepts, skills, terminology, and processes

WHY IT MATTERS:   We build a VOCABULARY of musical patterns and ideas.  We experience, audiate (think musically), name, read, and write them.  These are the building blocks of music that allow students to create their own music and understand the music of others.

CREATION, PERFORMANCE, EXPRESSION 

WHAT IT MEANS: Create, perform, and express ideas through the art discipline

WHY IT MATTERS:  We ENGAGE with a variety of styles and genres through moving, improvising, composing, and interpreting a score so that we have a larger understanding of music.

CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING

WHAT IT MEANS: Approach artistic problem ­solving using multiple solutions and the creative process.

WHY IT MATTERS:  We learn the PROCESS of making music so we can continue to develop and improve. 

AESTHETICS AND CRITICISM

WHAT IT MEANS: Demonstrate ability to describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate works of art

WHY IT MATTERS:  We learn to TALK ABOUT music, and EVALUATE what makes a piece /performance successful or not.  We explore our own preferences, and develop curiosity about the preferences of others. 

CONNECTIONS

WHAT IT MEANS: Understand the relationship among the arts, history and world culture; and they make connections among the arts and to other disciplines, to goal­-setting, and to interpersonal interactions

WHY IT MATTERS:  EXPERIENCING music in our own body puts us in connection with our own life, our community, the wider world, and to people from across time so we can be better citizens. 

Habits Of Work and Learning

TRYING HARD

CARING CLASSMATES

BEING MUSICAL