PLE 4 Chp. 14 Assessment

 Prompt:

Think of a lesson plan from your licensure area.  Knowing that assessment is an integral part of teaching, explain at least four informal and formal assessments that you will use in your lesson plan to provide you with feedback and involve the students in assessing their own learning.

My teaching area is music education. This includes primary, secondary and high school students. For each grade level, the National Standards for Music Education must be met, and because of this, formal AND informal assessments should be utilized throughout the school year. Below is a list of the National Standards for Music Education provided by the National Association for Music Education. (NAfME is an organization and credible website that the entire nation utilizes for music education) All music teachers must meet these standards and plan their lessons accordingly.

1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.

5. Reading and notating music.

6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.

7. Evaluating music and music performances.

8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.

These are a few assessments I have come up with to cater to my specialty area:

Formal assessing for music students would include:

1. Individual Playing Tests (This would coincide with the performance aspect of the national standards)

- Students will show their ability of range, repertoire, technique and musicality 

2. Composer of the month essay (This would coincide with the history/culture aspect of the national standards)

- Students will write one or two paragraphs at the end of every month about the biography of a composer and his/her time period. 

3. Computerized Standardized Listening Exam (#6 and #7 shown above)

 - There are music theory technologies available in certain schools for students to use in a lab.

4. Yearly Final Exam (All standards minus performance)

- This would be a test including a composition portion, listening portion, analyzed portion, and music history portion.

Informal assessing for music students would include: 

1. Group ensembles performing in front of the class

2. Composition Project (writing your own music to share)

3. Multimedia presentations (video, group projects)

4. Relay Music games for assessing music theory and terminology

 * THIS IS A GREAT SYLLABUS I FOUND ONLINE FOR PROGRAMMING AND ASSESSMENT IS HELPFUL FOR ALL AREAS NO JUST MUSIC. Please take the time to just copy and paste the link and scroll through.

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