Music
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.
Music Content Standards
Creating
Musicians generate, organize, and design musical ideas and work.
Musicians refine and complete musical work.
Performing
Musicians select, analyze, and interpret musical work for presentation.
Musicians develop and refine musical techniques and work for presentation.
Musicians convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
Responding
Musicians perceive and analyze artistic work
Musicians interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
Musicians apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
Connecting
Musicians synthesize and relate knowledge with personal experiences to produce music.
Musicians relate musical ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
The music curriculum addresses interdisciplinary standards in the humanities and technology:
Musicians integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media forms.(Language Arts)
Musicians evaluate the role of culture, values, and belief systems in shaping human history. (Social Studies)
Musicians integrate media musical content into unified media arts productions, considering the interaction of the audience.(Technology)