Quality Standard I
Teachers demonstrate mastery of and pedagogical expertise in the content they teach. The secondary teacher has knowledge of literacy and mathematics and is an expert in his or her content endorsement area(s).
Element A Teachers provide instruction that is aligned with the Colorado Academic Standards, their District’s organized plan of instruction, and the individual needs of their students.
Reasoning Statement: This lesson plan demonstrates my knowledge of pedagogical expertise in Music Education. The objectives of this lesson included memorizing words to a choral piece and singing each phrase with expression (phrasing). Both memorization and phrasing are important elements in communication and therefore this lesson covers literacy standards. This lesson includes the Colorado State Standards for Music Education. Furthermore, this lesson is applicable to students because of the communication element of expression. I used pictures (memorization) to meet the needs of visual learners, slinkies (phrasing) to meet the needs of kinesthetic learners, and verbal instruction to meet the needs of auditory learners.
Artifact: Lesson Plan _Memorization by Association, Phrasing and Slinkies
Teachers demonstrate mastery of and pedagogical expertise in the content they teach. The secondary teacher has knowledge of literacy and mathematics and is an expert in his or her content endorsement area(s).
Element A Teachers provide instruction that is aligned with the Colorado Academic Standards, their District’s organized plan of instruction, and the individual needs of their students.
Reasoning Statement: This lesson plan demonstrates my knowledge of pedagogical expertise in Music Education. The objectives of this lesson included memorizing words to a choral piece and singing each phrase with expression (phrasing). Both memorization and phrasing are important elements in communication and therefore this lesson covers literacy standards. This lesson includes the Colorado State Standards for Music Education. Furthermore, this lesson is applicable to students because of the communication element of expression. I used pictures (memorization) to meet the needs of visual learners, slinkies (phrasing) to meet the needs of kinesthetic learners, and verbal instruction to meet the needs of auditory learners.
Artifact: Lesson Plan _Memorization by Association, Phrasing and Slinkies
naomi_r_wright_lesson_2.doc |
Element B Teachers develop and implement lessons that connect to a variety of content areas/disciplines and emphasize literacy and mathematical practices.
Reasoning Statement: This artifact is an assessment project that several colleagues, in EDUC 450, and I co-wrote. My colleagues' fields of expertise include English, Agriculture, and History. This assessment project demonstrates that I can connect my content to other disciplines. Additionally this demonstrates that I know that I can collaborate with other educators in various disciplines to develop cross content lessons.
Artifact: Interdisciplinary Assessment Project
Element C Teachers demonstrate knowledge of the content, central concepts, inquiry, appropriate evidence-based instructional practices, and specialized characteristics of the disciplines being taught.
Reasoning Statement: In my MU551 course regarding curriculum design and assessment in Music Education, I developed a curriculum for a future middle school composition course. This curriculum demonstrates that I have knowledge of the content as well as the core concepts or pillars of music education. The curriculum I wrote is based on my philosophy, hard and soft policies, guiding principles which includes other pedagogies and philosophies that my philosophy is based on, and guiding questions which are relative to students.
I also included a collaborative project that I worked on in my graduate course Contemporary Issues in Music Education. The data base includes articles that my colleague and I read. The articles were written between 2017 and 2019. The goal of this project was to find commonalities that we considered as contemporary issues in music education. I included this project because it demonstrates that I have done extensive research in my content area.
Artifact 1: Curriculum Assignment
Artifact 2: MEJ Database tracker
Reasoning Statement: This artifact is an assessment project that several colleagues, in EDUC 450, and I co-wrote. My colleagues' fields of expertise include English, Agriculture, and History. This assessment project demonstrates that I can connect my content to other disciplines. Additionally this demonstrates that I know that I can collaborate with other educators in various disciplines to develop cross content lessons.
Artifact: Interdisciplinary Assessment Project
Element C Teachers demonstrate knowledge of the content, central concepts, inquiry, appropriate evidence-based instructional practices, and specialized characteristics of the disciplines being taught.
Reasoning Statement: In my MU551 course regarding curriculum design and assessment in Music Education, I developed a curriculum for a future middle school composition course. This curriculum demonstrates that I have knowledge of the content as well as the core concepts or pillars of music education. The curriculum I wrote is based on my philosophy, hard and soft policies, guiding principles which includes other pedagogies and philosophies that my philosophy is based on, and guiding questions which are relative to students.
I also included a collaborative project that I worked on in my graduate course Contemporary Issues in Music Education. The data base includes articles that my colleague and I read. The articles were written between 2017 and 2019. The goal of this project was to find commonalities that we considered as contemporary issues in music education. I included this project because it demonstrates that I have done extensive research in my content area.
Artifact 1: Curriculum Assignment
Artifact 2: MEJ Database tracker