For this artifact, I chose a communicating through music lesson plan. I chose this artifact because it demonstrates my ability to communicate with my students, my ability to engage them in a lesson, and my ability to use assessment during instruction time. This lesson was all about communication! I tell my students often that music is more than simply singing songs and squiggles on paper: music is a form of expression and communication. This lesson was an introduction to a new song which contained a lot of "nonsense" words which were intended to give the song a Celtic flare. I knew my students would struggle with how to communicate words that had no meaning, so I chose to focus on the meaning of the song overall and how the nonsense words could be used to enhance the expression of the song. I try to include sight-reading as often as I can because this helps to develop music literacy. I also try to incorporate all four language modalities (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) is as many lesson as I can to help foster my students' communication skills. It is important to me that my students understand that communication is something that occurs in music as much as it occurs in other subjects.
This artifacty satisfies the requirements of Danielson's Domain 3 Standards 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e and the Idaho Standards for Music Teachers Standard 6.
This artifacty satisfies the requirements of Danielson's Domain 3 Standards 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e and the Idaho Standards for Music Teachers Standard 6.