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Assessment is essential. For the teacher assessment allows the teacher to see if therecommended curriculum is reaching the intended learning goals and adjustments can be made if needed for the student compliment being taught. Students benefit from assessment by seeing their own progression of skill acquisition. The student engagement may be increases if students have input with creating the learning outcomes and goals.
A general assessment mnemonic tool for use at the end of a lesson, unit or term. This assessment tool conforms with standard learning assessment based in Bloom’s Taxonomy expressing higher order of understanding, connecting and creating.
Portfolio Project
Executive Skill and Knowledge Assessment
Each month students will keep a list of the skills they practiced and will record their performance of that skill applied to a piece of music. Recordings can be done in class or away from class and may include video or just audio. These recording will be kept in a protfolio on the students computer drives provided by the schools. These recording will be accessed many time by the students to self assess they own progress.
Shortly after the recordings are made, students will be able to develop their own rubric using what they know the skill to require and assess their playing using their rubric. They can choose to move on to a new skill or, based on their own assessment, They can choose to spend more time working with that skill for greater performance level.
Performance opportunities will be offered through school orchestras and special doublebass performances as they are available. String Night has traditionally been the largest opportunity for doublebass performances.
In the YouTube link below there are four levels of doublebass classes playing pizzacato and bowed musical lines using bass clef through treble clef and adding a few other skills for fun!
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This catchy mnemonic can be a quick reference for assessment at the end of each lesson.
CAN U?
C Careful- take care to understand the parts of the skill
A Apply- apply to skill to your playing
N Nurture- recognize/identify the skill and differentiate from other skills
U Use- use the skill can be used to design new context
Another mnemonic assessment tool that can be used is:
R U KIDD’N (Bowing example)
R -Resound- fill with sound-Play!
U -Understand- feel the weight and placement of the bow
K -Knowledge- learn the terms
I- Intrupret- play with the intended expressions
D -Duration- use the correct length and speed of bow
D -Dynamic- use the intended volume
N -Nuance- play using the subtle differences
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