Questions during your lesson planning

-Music education should be fun, exciting, and approached with an academic mindset that
combines excellence in performance with clear expectations for learning.
-Although musical learning enhances learning in other disciplines, it should be regarded
as a goal by itself.
-Music classrooms need to be student-centered.
-All music students should be engaged in rich and challenging music-making projects in
classroom situations that are deliberately organized as authentic musical practices.
-?I should determine the focus of the classroom based upon my informed
professional/musical opinions.
-The processes of learning music should require problem-solving and critical thought.

Advanced musicianship
-Students need regular opportunities to reflect on the results of their musicianship and
that of their peers.
-?Students should be able to consider and to clearly articulate the reasoning behind their
musical opinions.

The End Goal for students

-Students should listen to and participate in music as audience members and learn to
make informed choices about music and musical performances.
-The focus should be upon preparing students to undergo musical experience in the way
they are most likely to as children and adults -- that is, as a listener.
-Students should be able to utilize musical knowledge and skills in their work and/or
avocations of life after school.

The end goal as a teacher.

-All styles of music have validity within the music curriculum.
-Music education should be available to the entire student population in the nations’
classrooms, not only as a privilege to the capable.