Students perform and create original music and songs to sell helping fund struggling music programs
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What barriers has Michael broken with the Music 2 Save Music project?
The barriers between school music and real music. Pg. 159
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What are the key vehicles for building understanding?
The use of "understanding performances"
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Name three reasons why the word "opportunity" is used instead of " work" and "tasks".
•It directs our attention to what is actually present in any activity in terms of the required and afforded actions, rather than to the product that students will produce.
•It keeps us focused on building learning-oriented rather than work-oriented schools.
•Opportunities come in many shapes and sizes, and a "task" is only an opportunity of a particular size and duration.
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What did some students make their graphs about?
Their Family's migration history
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What is the stage that Peter Woods sees the students at in there empowering educational event?
Divergence stage
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What is the key dimension that will determine the level of engagement and learning of any opportunity presented in the classroom?
Complexity Pg. 162
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How can teachers increase the likelihood that students will view an assignment as worthwhile?
When students are able to see the purpose behind the task.
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When teachers do not have the right vehicles in the classroom, what happens to learning?
Learning slows down, loses momentum, and in some cases comes to a standstill, producing parking lots rather than speedways.
400
What two questions does David have up on the board for his class when they walk in?
Why do people migrate?
What are the impacts of migration?
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In allowing students greater control of the process how is the class changing?
There is an ownership and craftsmanship of the songs
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The opportunities we create as teacher differ on three distinct dimensions, they are:
Duration, format, and complexity Pg. 160
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If a thought process does not come naturally to you, what can you do?
Engage colleagues to collaborate & examine the ideas you are creating.
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While the two students are reading their parts, what questions does Toms ask the class?
"What's worth commenting on the passage? What do you notice? What do you see in the language?"
500
What is the "Three day migration story project"?
What they learned about migration.
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what is the outline structure of song writing structure?
Inspiration, Big Idea, Lyrics, Chorus, Verse, Keeping the same genre
500
Identify the 6 stages that events progress through.