Full Description
Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. A practical and accessible resource, fourteen chapters lay out pedagogically sound practices for preservice and inservice music teachers. Beginning with adolescent development, authors outline clear, pedagogical steps for the creation of an inclusive curriculum that is age-appropriate age-relevant, and standards-based. You will find timely chapters on singing and playing instruments such as guitar, keyboard, ukulele, drumming and percussion. Other chapters address ways to make music with technology, strategies for students with exceptionalities, and the construction of instruments. Further, there are chapters on songwriting, interdisciplinary creative projects, co-creating musicals, infusing general music into the choral classroom, and standards-based assessment. The book is full of musical examples, sample rubrics, and resource lists. This second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music is a necessity for any practitioner who teaches music to adolescent students or as a text for secondary general music methods courses.
Contents
Preface
Suzanne L. Burton
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Celebrating Early Adolescence
Krystal Rickard McCoy
Chapter 2: Exceptionalities in Adolescence
Kimberly A. McCord
Chapter 3: Adolescents and Singing
Joshua Palkki
Chapter 4: Guitar for the Middle School Classroom
Scott Burstein and Martina Vasil
Chapter 5: Early Keyboard Experiences to Inspire Musicianship
Suzanne L. Burton
Chapter 6: Drumming and Percussion
Gareth Dylan Smith and Brian Bersh
Chapter 7: Toca el ukulele: Songs in Spanish and the Ukulele
Robin Giebelhausen
Chapter 8. Ideas for Instrumental Music Making
Patricia Shehan Campbell and Lee Higgins
Chapter 9: Music Technology in the Middle School General Music Classroom
James Frankel
Chapter 10: Informal, Intuitive, Interdisciplinary, & Interactive: Middle School General Music with a Twist
Gena R. Greher
Chapter 11: Songwriting and the Importance of Classroom Community
Mark C. Adams
Chapter 12: Co-Creating Musicals with Middle School Students
Heather Wadler
Chapter 13: Bridging Practices: Infusing General Music into the Choral Classroom
Aimee Pearsall
Chapter 14: Did Students Learn What I Think I Taught Them? Assessment of Musical, Standards-based Learning in Middle School General Music
Alden H. Snell II
About the Editor
About the Authors
