Assessment
Why Assess your students?
Inform instructional decision making
Report progress to others
Feedback about progress to students
Create independent & literate musicians
Steps to Melodic Composition
Melodic composition and improvisation is the hardest thing we do as music teachers. It takes many so more steps and practice than rhythmic concepts. Below is a short Prezi that goes through the many steps that I use to get students to melodic independence.
Formative = For learning small steps / Summative = showing independent skills at the end
Types of Formative Assessments
Whiteboards
exit slip - Improv melody.pdfMelodic Exit Tickets
Exit Slips - Rhythm.pdfRhythmic Exit Tickets
Exit Slip - Melodic dictation.pdfStaff Exit Tickets
Three Types of Summative Assessments
rhythm-compound.pdfRhythm Assessment
Students write 16 beats using an elemental form, name note names, then perform for teacher or another student
staff-paiges Train.pdfSong Transcription
Students write in the solfege for a known song then sing it for teacher for a score. After singing, they transfer to the staff. A final extension/practice is patterning or melodic building blocks on the back
Melodic - drmsl (review).pdfMelodic Composition
Students use previously learned information to improvise and then compose a song for 16 beats.