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Multiage Classroom Chatboard

music curriculum in multi-age class

by Gayle

Jul 27, 2010

Hi, I am going to be teaching music to K-1, 2-3, and 4-5 combination/multi-age classrooms and I am wondering how music teachers have modified their curriculum to meet the need of standards in multi-age classes. Do you start out with an organized activity? How do you layer or differentiate your instruction? Do you loop any specific content? How do you build repertoire? Do you label olders and youngers or call them names that reflect their abilities? Any other suggestions and comments you feel may be helpful are appreciated. Thanks!

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Jeff Broome Hi Gayle.

I hope all is well with you, and congratulations on your new position in working with multiage students in the music classroom. My name is Jeff Broome and I am a professor of art education at the University of North Texas. My research interests center around working with "special area teachers" (IE art, music, PE, etc.) who teac...See MoreHi Gayle.

I hope all is well with you, and congratulations on your new position in working with multiage students in the music classroom. My name is Jeff Broome and I am a professor of art education at the University of North Texas. My research interests center around working with "special area teachers" (IE art, music, PE, etc.) who teach in multi-age situations. I'm always happy to help any special area teachers about to embark on a new position with multiage groups of students.

My particular speciality is in visual arts education, but I can offer some general suggestions related to most specialists based on my research findings of working with multi-age art teachers in Florida. In order to frame my suggestions in the most useful context possible, I had just a few brief questions for you about the school that you will be working at next year.

1) Will you be the only music teacher working with these students at your school? 2) Are the multiage classes team-taught in their homeroom groups, or is each multiage class supervised by a single multiage homeroom teacher? 3) Does your music schedule line-up well with the schedules of the other specialists working at your school, in terms of the length of your classes and starting and ending times of your classes?

With answers to the above questions, I can offer some general advice about organizing your multiage music classes.

Unfortunately, there is not a lot out there about multi-age music curriculum other than an old dissertation by Anna Jean Brown. The dissertation is from the 70s, so surely the references to music curriculum must be dated. However, if you would like to review the dissertation, I can provide you with the information needed to retrieve this document. One of my long-term goals is to pair-up with other experienced multi-age special area teachers (music, PE, etc.) in order to offer trainings and resources that represent diversity in experiences and disciplines.

Thank you so much again for getting in touch. Once you provide me with some of the information above, I will get right back in touch with you about some specific organizational suggestions. Feel free to view my website (listed in the closing below) if you are interested in exploring my experiences in multi-age education. Take care.

Best wishes, Jeff [link removed]

On 7/27/10, Gayle wrote: > Hi, I am going to be teaching music to K-1, 2-3, and 4-5 > combination/multi-age classrooms and I am wondering how > music teachers have modified their curriculum to meet the > need of standards in multi-age classes. Do you start out > with an organized activity? How do you layer or > differentiate your instruction? Do you loop any specific > content? How do you build repertoire? Do you label olders > and youngers or call them names that reflect their > abilities? Any other suggestions and comments you feel may > be helpful are appreciated. Thanks!

Jul 29, 2010

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Jeff Broome Hi Gayle,

I also found some resources written by multi-age music teachers that I could send to you. Teachers.Net won't allow me to send attachments, but I could send them to your e-mail account or to your school's physical address.

The first reading would be about "Developmentally Appropriate Music in the Multiage Classroom" by ...See More

Aug 2, 2010

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