Assessments & AcountabilityWhy Assess your students?
Formative Assessments
Formative Assessments are informal assessments that happen constantly and inform your teaching on a daily basis. Formative assessments can come in many forms and are anything that help you informally assess how your students are doing. Most of the steps to melodic independence (see prezi on the right) are formative assessments. Three Types of Summative Assessments:
Summative Assessments are a summary of learning and happen after a concept has been fully explored, introduced and improvised with
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Melodic composition and improvisation is the hardest thing we do as music teachers. It takes many so more steps and practice than rhythmic concepts. Below is a short Prezi that goes through the many steps that I use to get students to melodic independence.
Here is a copy of all the steps and descriptions on one sheet for your reference
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