Over the course of this week I have finally come up with my leadership project idea! So here goes...
Fairfax County Public Schools has many transient students that move within our county due to various reasons. When a student moves from one Fairfax County school to another Fairfax County school there is no guarantee that they will receive a consistent music education because not all general music teachers are utilizing the Assessment Pacing Guides. These guides were created by a summer curriculum team during the summer of 2012, to give assessment ideas for each grade level (K-6) per quarter.
I would like to work with my Langley pyramid of elementary general music teachers at Colvin Run, Forestville, Great Falls, Spring Hill, and my school Churchill Road, to look at these Assessment Pacing Charts and create assessments that we will introduce and/or use for each quarter that align with the progress report criteria for general music in Fairfax County Public Schools.
I would like to collect data through my conversations with my pyramid colleagues; assessments created; information from Fairfax County's Fine Arts office; articles; journals; music education organizations and research papers. The goal of my proposal and future presentation is to show students that receive a consistent music education including pyramid-wide created assessments can improve and strengthen a student's music education.
Some of the potential obstacles I may face towards addressing this goal are attaining buy-in from my pyramid colleagues and finding research and/or data that proves this goal. Some supports I hope to receive may come from our Fine Arts Office; NAfME-National Association for Music Educators; VMEA-Virginia Music Educators Association; and FGMEA-Fairfax General Music Educators Association.
Danielle: inconsistent music education due to ignoring the pacing guide. How will you work on the buy-in? That’s going to be the toughest part. It’s good that you have the infrastructure in place with the pacing guides, that’s the biggest part already out of the way.
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ReplyDeleteGreat job! If you put this together I think the FA office will see the importance of a pacing guide and how important that is for vertical articulations for Grades K-6 and horizontal articulation between elementary schools.
Danielle, it sounds like the form that’s already designed (assessment guide per quarter) is already a great start in order to help your idea and that this seems like a an opportunity that can be realized in a succinct and helpful way and that because your main interest is what is best for the students in creating a cohesive learning environment across the county you should not face as many road blocks as you will face helpfulness. I’m sure that music teachers in other counties/cities would also benefit from your research and created assessments! Thanks for sharing - and for going first :)
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