Instruction

Executing a successful lesson.

Practice is the single best way to make a worthwhile lesson successful.  Of course, making sure the lesson is built with quality activities and geared toward a specific assessment is required first. I have practiced teaching lessons to my children, to myself, and talked them out with my...
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Designing assessments to monitor students’ progress.

I constantly make informal assessments of student progress.  If something did not work well one day, I make changes to make the lesson more successful in subsequent presentations.  Therefore, there are observation and informal summative and formative assessments built into nearly every...
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Active student engagement.

Given the set up of the music room, it is fairly easy to determine if students are actively engaged in the learning process.  The students sit in a large circle, facing one another. They are not only looking at the teacher and engaged in what she is telling and directing for the class, but...
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