Teacher Resource Guides

Teacher Resource Guides are supplementary, standards-based, units of instruction centered on specific topics of musical instruction.

The Activities for Excellence within the web curriculum are designed to enhance students’ performance and broaden their musical understanding. While each activity requires only a minimal amount of rehearsal time for completion, it is highly unlikely that you would choose all of the activities. Rather, select those that are most appropriate for your band students and teaching situation.

Many educators believe that every student should attain a minimal level of proficiency in each of the following areas of music study:
1. Singing
2. Playing Instruments
3. Improvising
4. Composing and Arranging
5. Reading and Notating Music
6. Listening to, analyzing and describing music
7. Evaluating music and musical performances
8. Understanding relationships between music and other arts/other disciplines
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.

These nine areas of study are the focus of the Activities for Excellence contained in the Teacher’s Resource Guide. An additional component enhancing these areas is the integration of technology into your music teaching.

Teacher’s Resource Guide includes:
• Learning Outcomes and Teaching Strategies
• Additional ideas for creative warm-ups
• Resources for listening activities
• Ready-to-duplicate worksheets
• quick assessment tools (practice journals) as well as written Quizzes and Rubrics

Please select from the following available resource guide areas:

Renaissance

The Renaissance Period (1400 – 1600) brought an explosion of new ideas and advancements in art, architecture, science, and philosophy. The period was called the Renaissance (rebirth) because artistic ideals from Ancient Greece were rediscovered. Music played a large part of everyday and religious life during the Renaissance. Instrumental music became increasingly more popular during this period. Medieval dance forms laid the groundwork for the development of more complete forms during the Renaissance. Composed for court festivals and special occasions, dance music was favored by the royalty and the nobility for entertainment.