Northern Metropolitan Region - Shared Resources

Music Rubrics

Here's an idea for a Music Research Project, with an accompanying rubric. This is an excellent rubric which could be adapted for many projects.
Here’s a rubric, originally designed for xylophone, that has much wider application. Download the following documents (3) for the complete set.
Prep and Grade I
Grades 2, 3 and 4
Performance Rubric
There are 2 similar one’s for xylophone which can easily be adapted for melody playing on any instrument. The level 4 one can be used from grade 5 – year 8 approx for any instrumental playing.
In the spirit of sharing resources, I am passing on a rubric I made recently for self-assessment of Grade 5/6 radio shows.
Melanie Chilianis Westmeadows PS

Planning a School Production

So you’re preparing your schools concert and as always the stress levels and anxiety pangs seem to engulf you. Well here’s a list of some of the Do’s and Don’ts of Concert Preparation that I have prepared, based on my experience. I have taken into consideration that many teachers may not be music specialists. I have seen many performances where classroom teachers are responsible for the annual school concert. I hope that I address as many issues and concerns that music / performing arts and classroom teachers would find beneficial. This Timeline template may also be useful to you in planning your school production

Maree Frisby [Apollo Parkways] says 'Apollo Parkways Primary School whole school production involves all the students at the school and provides a major focus for the arts once every two years. This event has tremendous support from the staff and school community. I have been the producer of this event for the last ten years, and have documented the process'.

Maree hasn't just documented the process, she has done it in such a way that it provides an excellent template for you to create a plan of your own.

Planning a School Production

Starting a primary School Rock Band

Robbie Grieg has been the backbone of many NMR primary school Rock Bands for many years. Robbie has put together a great song repertoire for teachers and has also listed some very important ideas for sustaining school Rock Bands in his document, 'Starting a Primary School Rock Band'. Having seen many wonderful performances with his bands I am pleased that Robbie can share his ideas with you.

Says Robbie 'Thought it might be nice for people to hear some kids' work on the bulletin board. Here's an MP3 copy of our rock band Smash Hits' successful entry into the Gold 104 Primary Rock & Roll Competition - Down Under by Men At Work. Love to hear some work by other bands.'

Collaboration Across Departments

This 2 minute video really is wonderful, it demonstrates beautifully possibilities for collaboration between visual art, music and IT.

A great idea which could be replicated within the music, IT and art classroom even if this video is somewhat intricate.

Choir Songs That Work

Here's two pages of songs for choirs, submitted by Chris Kilmartin.

Free Software

As part of the Statewide Music Educators professional Development Day, Dec 14th 2006, the EMR Music Coordinators Steve Vertigan, Carl Williams and David Hirst presented a paper which demonstrated a range of free software available on the web. You can download their paper here as part of a zip file, which also contains all the software that they gathered as part of the presentation

Edward De Bono's Colored Hats

The Word document ccan be downloaded here

Regards

Piero D'Elia
Music Coordinator
Northern Metropolitan Region