Sunday, February 3, 2008

Page 85-86 #3&9

3. I do think that improvisation should be included in the "musical skills" learning area. Not as a means to have another skill to grade and determine whether the child is musical or not, but more as a means to give children another musical experience. The teacher should start of slow with improvisation parameters so the children can feel successful when they can improvise, and then widen the parameters as they become more and more comfortable and successful.

9. Its fine to have some sort of standardized music test as a part of an overall assessment program but most certainly not the foremost used assessment tool. But yes, it is perfectly alright to include a test into the forms of assessment.

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