Overview and Background: Unit: How to Tackle the Giant

 Name:  Travis Johnson

 

Cheney School District: All Grades

 

Title:

How to tackle the Giant.

Topics:

Practicing Techniques, Time Managements

Time Frame:

4-5 weeks

Start Date:

2-10-03

 

Other Designers:

 

Summary: Students will gain a greater understanding of the techniques that make a musician and effective practicing musician.

 

Print Materials Needed: Set Follow Through and Response graphic organizer.  Blanck outline for the students to create their outlines.

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Notes:

 

 

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

 

State:

KS

Title:

Band

Standard(s):

 Evaluating music and music performed.

 

Understandings: Evaluation is an essential tool for improvement.  Analyzing performance is a vital part of quality practice time at home or at school.

 

 

Essential Questions:

What is “Set, Follow Through, Response?”

How do we use “Set, Follow Through, and Response” to improve practice time?

What is the principle of isolation?

Why are long term and short term goals important?

How do we create long term and short term goals.

 

 

Knowledge and Skills:

K: Students will know:

Students will know all of the notes and fingerings on their instrument.

A counting system that they can use independently.

 

 

 

S: Students will be able to:

Improve practice time and performance through listening.

Analyze personal performance on their instrument.

Use practice techniques independently (outside of class).

Write correct counting for rhythms at their difficulty level.

 

 

 

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

 

Assessment Summary: Presentation to the class on how they practiced and what they practiced.  Presentations will detail the practicing process and how they used “Set, Follow Through, Response.”

Student Directions: Choose three areas that you would like to improve about your playing.  For each of these three areas come up with three more topics that will help you to focus your practice time.  For each of the three topics choose three more exercises that will improve your playing.  Using the outline that you have created to guide your practice time.  Use the “Set, Follow Through, and Response” principle to guide your practicing for two weeks.

 

Rubric: On computer in the room.  Hand out to students when they begin to construct the outlines.

 

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Fill out graphic organizers on a daily basis (in class) while they practice over S/FT/R.

Written quiz over rhythms.

Written quiz over fingerings for their instrument.

 

 

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

 

Learning Activities: What sequence of teaching and learning experiences will be used? 

  1. Hook:  How much practice time is wasted by you right now?  Demonstrate good and bad practice time. 
  2. Overview and Expectation: To improve practicing skills using the S/FT/R principle in their practice time.

       3.    Teaching Activities, Assessments & Rethinking opportunities in order: How to properly count a line.

Using transposition to find correct notes on a piano.

Review of personal fingering charts for their instruments.

Create their outlines by filling in the blank outline during class.

Demonstrate how to fill out S/FT/R graphic organizers.

Use Kagan exercise to have the students help each other fill out their S/FT/R graphic organizers.