A Framework for Teaching Music

 

Resources and Materials Beyond the Method Book

Perform Music. Read Music. Audiate Music.

These three outcomes should be the center of every students’ music education. Whether a student is learning in an ensemble setting or studying privately, learning to sing or learning to play an instrument, a complete music education prepares students to perform music, read music, and comprehend (audiate) music.

Standards-Based Grading Framework

Musical Concepts should be taught in a logical and predictable progression, understood by both the teacher and the student. Learning objectives should be scaffolded to present concepts in a hierarchical model with varying levels of complexity and specificity. That same learning progression should be used to plan lessons, track student progress, track student growth, and report grades - a single framework guiding all areas of the educational process.

Music Learning Theory Approach

Music is a language and should be taught as such. Performing, experiencing, and understanding musical concepts should precede reading music, just like babbling, pronouncing words, forming sentences, and conveying thoughts and ideas precede reading books. Yes, reading music is vital to the continued success and participation in making music.

No Compromise. Only Results.

There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Music education resources have been around for decades and have helped produce musicians of the highest caliber. This website’s purpose is not to dismantle proven and tested curriculum. Using new “best-practices” in the music education world, it serves to introduce a framework to existing pedagogy, with learning activities and simple assessments to assist the student and teacher through the learning process.