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Samantha Moroney

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Assessment helps students to learn by showing teachers what they can improve
upon. Before assessment can be executed effectively, teachers must communicate in
specific, healthy ways. They must teach with a willingness to change the way they teach
over time, with open minds and desires to help/teach every student, and with the
expectation of learning from each of their students. Evaluation is the way we support
and enhance student and teacher learning in order to assess accordingly. This will set
students up for success through a complete understanding of how they learn as
individuals and of what is needed in order to continue learning.
It is important to recognize that we learn and teach by doing: by actively taking
part in our learning in a comfortable, non-oppressive and safe environment. With use of
the national standards, we can approach teaching from multiple different angles that can
engage students fully in music and musical concepts.
The key to using many different kinds of learning tools and corresponding
assessment strategies is to make certain that students first know what is expected of
them and what they will be assessed on. A rubric that is easily understood and which
fully explains the assignment must be presented to the students with sufficient time
before a project so that students can meet criteria and include all that is expected of
them.
Different strategies for assessing are equally as important as setting up a good,
productive environment. Assessment should be examined from multiple angles, never in
only one fashion. Teachers can use the student strengths for writing papers, making
projects, taking tests, giving presentations or speeches, etc., to better assess them.
Teachers can utilize question strategies including true and false, multiple choice, short
answer and essay to get different results from students. In assessing music, they must
utilize observation, playing tests, participation, written and composition work. They
utilize rubrics and built-in assessments such as exit tickets and hand-vote questions.
A student understands material when they can find a way to explain or display
their knowledge to you in their own words or with their own creative process, when old
and new material can be linked, or when old material is built upon to further knowledge.
Once assessment has successfully been applied, assessment progress can be
communicated to parents or guardians in a timely manner, for both positive and
negative forms of progress.

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