A way of categorizing specific skills or levels of understanding along a continuum of basic to more complex.
What is a taxonomy?
100
A pedagogical approach that incorporates solfége, improvisation, and movement to teach fundamental musical concepts while developing children’s musical expressivity.
Who is Dalcroze?
100
Children’s ability to identify discrete or specific aspects of pitch motion such as steps, leaps and repeated tones typically occurs during which which grade?
What is first grade?
100
An essential component of all lesson plans describes what students should know or be able to do by the end of the lesson.
What is a learning objective or outcome?
100
A strategy designed to teach essential knowledge and skills through teacher explanation and modeling followed by student practice and feedback.
What is direct instruction?
200
This psychologist's theory is based on the notion that human beings progress through a series of developmental stages where each stage is characterized by a unique “psychosocial” crisis which must be resolved before issues in the next stage can be addressed.
Who is Erik Erikson?
200
A colleague of composer Bela Bartok, this individual developed a method for teaching children music that emphasizes performance, listening, and literacy skills.
Who is Zoltan Kodaly?
200
Although some children may require additional reinforcement in order to maintain a steady beat, most are able to demonstrate this skill by the end of second grade.
What is beat competence?
200
When developing a lesson plan teachers must take this information into consideration to ensure students will be able to understand the introduction of new information.
What is prior knowledge?
200
A strategy that teaches concepts and other abstractions by presenting students with data and assisting them in finding patterns through teacher questioning.
What is guided discovery?
300
According to Piaget, this state of being serves as the impetus for learning, forcing us to adapt or adjust what we know to new information that contradicts what we already know.
What is disequilibrium?
300
The process of teaching music through thoughtfully sequenced steps beginning with simple imitation, followed by exploratory activities that lead to literacy and culminate in some type of creative or improvised experience is the cornerstone of this individual's methodology.
Who is Carl Orff?
300
When might teachers begin asking students to recognize and conduct asymmetrical meters, such as 5/8 and 7/8?
What are grades five or six?
300
Good teachers often incorporate activities into their daily lesson plans that allow them to monitor student learning.
What is formative assessment?
300
In this type of learning activity students are actively involved in investigating a topic, designing strategies, and finding solutions while the teacher serves as a resource.
What is problem-based learning?
400
This Soviet psychologist conceived of this phrase to distinguish the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help.
What is the zone of proximal development?
400
A relatively new method for teaching music to young children resulted from the work of this individual. The approach emphasizes the development aural skills focusing primarily on rhythm and pitch, and begins by building a musical vocabulary through pattern recognition.
Who is Edwin Gordon?
400
Typically, children in this stage acquire Piaget’s concept of conservation, develop thinking that is based on facts, and are able to identify characteristics on a continuum.
What is concrete operations?
400
Sometimes called “re-cap”, “review” or “wrap-up” the purpose of this part of a lesson plan is to help reinforce what was introduced or learned in the lesson.
What is closure?
400
The process of adapting instruction to meet the needs of students who vary in background knowledge, skills, needs, and motivation.
What is differentiating instruction?
500
This American cognitive psychologist believes that children learn by experiencing concepts in the following order: kinesthetically, visually, and cognitively.
What are Bruner's modes of representation?
500
The belief that music is a fundamental human activity involving movement, language, and emotion involving the elements of time, space, and energy is at the center of this individual's teaching.
Who is Emile Jacques-Dalcroze?
500
Children in middle childhood (ages 5-12) are developmentally engaged in which of Erikson’s stages?
What is industry versus inferiority?
500
Teachers strive to create lesson plans in which learning objectives, instructional activities and assessments are connected.
What is instructional alignment?
500
Derived from special education, this concept attempts to create learning environments in which individuals with a wide range of learning abilities and styles can succeed in the classroom.