Written Summary of the Work from CRW

Content/Grade Level: ______Middle School Music______

Describe in detail the work that your team completed this week. Use you CRW checklist for reference. This summary will be posted, along with your video, on the ISS website to update teachers in your content/grade level on the work that was done during CRW.

Prior to CRW the middle school music teachers had worked together on creating performances evidences for each National Standard for 6-8 Music on the Curriculum Guides. This week I reformatted the document and checked the performance evidences to make sure the evidences were specific.

Using the NCDPI website, prior assessments, and the other music teachers working at CRW, I developed a list of academic vocabulary. From there I separated the terms out by grade level; the list was cumulative from grade level to grade level and classified by each National Standard.

Using the Curriculum Guide and the Academic Vocabulary I created a Pacing/Sequencing Guide. I classified the objectives by quarters and for the objectives that would be taught every quarter they were replicated into each quarter. This makes it easy for school administrators to see what exactly is taught each quarter.

Prior to CRW the middle school music teachers discussed creating a performance rubric using MPA (festival rubric), PLC created rubrics, and various other online resources to evaluate a performance on a quarterly basis. Middle school music teachers agreed that for the summative evaluation, teachers would perform at an outside festival (Carowinds, District Festival, Music in the Parks Festival, etc.) for an outside rating.

To ease the amount of manual grading for baselines, I used Quizstar to put our baseline online. I shortened the baseline from 65 questions to 27, still covering objectives already covered and objectives to be covered, incorporating the academic vocabulary, applicable to both band and chorus. Teachers and students can easily access the test; I created teacher and student directions. Once students complete the test, teachers can easily access the results and this will make it easier to compare the results because all the results, from both middle school band and chorus, will be reported the same; easy comparison.

I also worked on the reading and writing college readiness standards and created activities and lessons that are cross-curricular. Several are ones that my Instructional Facilitator at my school had shared and some I found using online resources.