Aligning Your Creative Sequence to the Core Music Standards

Alilgning Your Creative Sequence to the Core Music Standards By Tim Purdum Book 97 pages Grades K-5The new National Core Arts Standards are here, and teachers across the country are looking for ways to understand and apply these new guidelines to their teaching. This volume provides 18 concrete lesson examples, one for each Creative Process in each grade, K - 5. Based on the Creative Sequence template, these lessons give an example of how to integrate the new standards without sacrificing your existing curriculum. The goal is a clear, simple model that leads from teaching to assessment. Also included is an in-depth analysis of the Core Music Standards and the writing process behind them. Contents About the Creative Sequence Introduction to the National Core Music Standards Conceptual Matrix Artistic Process: Creating Artistic Process: Performing Artistic Process: Responding Artistic Process: Connecting Practical Application Coda Selected Bibliography