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The Formative Classroom
DESCRIPTION
Mr. Kelsey explains what it means to have a formative classroom and why it's important for all educators to be using formative instructional practices.
- Perform Chromatic March with accurate pitch and rhythm.
- Identify incorrect notes and rhythms within a performed exercise.
- Identify and demonstrate proper breathing technique in exercises and music.
- 1PR - Perform a varied repertoire of music, independently or collaboratively representing diverse genres and cultures and showing expression and technical accuracy at a level that includes more advanced ranges and changes of tempo, key and meter.
- 2PR - Perform, independently or collaboratively, with good posture producing an appropriate tone quality.
- 5PR - Read, write and perform rhythmic (including dotted rhythms) and melodic patterns in a variety of meters.
- 7PR - Demonstrate and use technology and media arts to create, perform and research music.
- 1RE - Apply multiple criteria to evaluate quality and effectiveness of personal and selected music performances and compositions and identify areas for improvement.
CONFIRM YOUR LEARNING
- What are the formative practices that are a natural part of band class?
- What is the importance of immediate feedback in helping students reach expectations?
- Why does Mr. Kelsey not grade every performance?
CONFIRM YOUR PRACTICE
- How do you provide immediate feedback to your students?
- How can you apply what Mr. Kelsey does to the grade and subject that you teach?
- What types of ungraded practice are prevalent in your classroom?
CONFIRM YOUR COMMITMENT
- How will you make formative practices a natural part of your classroom?
- How will you build a classroom culture that allows for students to do work that is formative and ungraded?
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