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Student Learning Objectives for the Choral Classroom: Help!Date: March 15, 2013 by Aly Horn  Views: 1150
Does anyone consistently use Student Learning Objectives (SLO) in their JH and HS Choral classroom?! I teach in Ohio, who will be starting to implement the use of SLO's in the 2013-2014 school year to monitor student growth. I am serving on a committee to develop and write SLO's, as well as advise other teachers and provide examples of "quality" (hopefully!) Student Learning Objectives in the area of JH and HS Choir.
Would anyone be willing to share sample JH and HS SLO's or have any advice/clarification after going through this process in another state? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much!
Ronnie Sanders on March 16, 2013 3:57am
Here is a link that lists the learning objectives for Texas - it may give you a place to start with some helpful hints. Find the grade (Junior High is Middle School) then find "Music" and click on the little tiny blue DOT on the far left. Hope this helps.
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter117/index.html
All the best
Ronnie Sanders
on March 16, 2013 9:30am
Marcia Neel has made the Clark County (Las Vegas) Nevada Curriculum Alignment Project available on her website: musiceducationconsultants.net. Click on the curriculum link, and you will find standards and objectives for each level of choir in middle school and high school.
on March 17, 2013 1:21am
Aly,
A wording suggestion for SLOs:
"By the completion of [grade level , school year, year in choir, ???], choral singing students will...
...be able to...
...demonstrate that they know..."
The SLOs can be grouped in categories of abilities, e.g....
musical abilities (rhythmic precision, pitch accuracy, variety of musical styles, expressive singing, etc.);
vocal and singing abilities (enabling physical readiness, efficient creation of breathflow, efficient conversion of breathflow to vocal soundflow, efficient coordination of vocal tract dimensions over vocal pitch and volume ranges, efficient blending of vocal registers, similarity of voice quality throughout vocal pitch and volume ranges, efficient creation of a variety of voice qualities, efficient enunciation of vowel and consonant sounds, etc.);
social abilities (empathy and respect for fellow singers and teachers, attention to immediate and long-term choir goals, respect for choir equipment, etc.).
This wording describes observable behaviors that choral music teachers, or others, can see and/or hear. [Just stating that student singers will "know" something implies that the choral teacher can read minds.] The methods of eliciting and observing the behaviors can then be described (combinations of conductor observation in rehearsals and performances, singer self-report, written test, aural test, choral colleague observation, parent observation, etc.)
Hope this helps.
Leon
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on March 21, 2013 7:15am
There are 4 things that need to be taught to middle school choir students so they will be ready for high school choir.
1) teach them to sing on pitch
2) teach them to be musically literate
3) help them grow into their adult voice
4) teach them to harmonize
Teach them to sing on pitch-develop their range. Boys need a lot of opportunity to sing melody in order to do this, since they are dealing with an instrument that is changing all the time. Asking them to harmonize by singing a homophonic tenor line isn’t going to help them find those notes.
Become musically literate - Teach them to follow and read a score – much of that is done in pre-rehearsal sight-singing and theory. Use solfege every day in class .
Help them grow into their adult voice – getting them to lengthen their vowels, dropping the hard “R’s”, dropped jaw “oo”, teaching falsetto and singing through the break, phrasing. With young adolescent voices…students must feel safe to experiment with their voice.
Teach them to harmonize. Unison singing, Ostinato, Layering, Descant, Partner songs, Rounds, Polyphonic songs, Homophonic songs. All of this helps them w/ independent part singing. (+ listening)
This should give you a base line at which to start.
Good luck,
Cathy
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