Irving A. Robbins

The mission of the Irving A. Robbins Middle School music program is to improve students’ independent musicianship skills through the musical processes of performing, creating, responding, and connecting. These acquired skills are apparent in reading, notating, analyzing, and evaluating music. The intent is to prepare students to become citizens who participate fully in a diverse, global society and who understand their own historical and cultural heritage and those of others, within and beyond their communities, through music. To realize this mission, the IAR music department offers a curriculum that provides students with varied opportunities to perform high-quality middle school literature that stimulates the musical processes of creating, performing, responding, and connecting. Students demonstrate independent musicianship through goal setting, reflecting and developing strategies for improvement. Students analyze, question, and evaluate musical performance through collaboration and leadership roles in the classroom, thereby taking ownership of their own learning and progressing towards the Vision of the Farmington Global Citizen. Students engage as stewards through performances and service learning, both which are required components of music courses. Students in the Music Stewardship and Innovation pathway will complete the Civic Minded Contributor’s Service Learning requirements through their coursework in the music courses.