Lesson Plan Template With Field Descriptions (Page 2 of 3) in pdf

Sample lesson for “non-music”

Plan

Materials

substitute

Procedures

School

See sub folder provided in front office

Classroom

See “sub tub” on teacher desk

Interest builder

Youtube video of “bad” American Idol audition

Ask students what they would suggest the contestant

video, ability to

Beginning

would want to “do over”

project video

Guiding question

Ask students to consider: How can we improve our next

performance?

Mini-

Say: You don’t want to feel like you have to have a “do

Recording of

lesson/modeling

over” of the next concert. We are considering how you

piece

can make the next performance of this piece more

appealing to the audience. When I watch/listen to the

recording, I am going to be paying attention to what I

like, what is boring, and what is distracting. I also want to

notice what kind of mood the music creates.

View/listen to short segment of piece currently being

prepared

Say: I noticed that the sounds during the part where no

one was singing seemed to not fit in—it was really

distracting. I also noticed that the music was happy and

fun, creating a playful and joyful mood. When the singers

were smiling, the happy feeling was even bigger.

Middle

Collaborative

Pairs of students view/listen to remainder of selection,

Recording of

practice

discussing and listing

piece on

●

Likes

individual

●

student devices

Dislikes

or one device

●

Distractions

per small group

●

Mood created

Teacher/sub walks around, making sure students remain

List of student

on-task

pairs

Independent

Students use hand-out to individually answer the

Hand-out (half-

practice

question: Which of the items we discussed in the group

sheet with

should we work on the most before our next

question

performance? Why?

printed)

Students share responses to independent practice with

Poster paper

partner

Marker(s)

Call on at least five students; say: What does your

Answer to guiding

End

partner think is the most important thing to consider

question

before the next performance?

Record student remarks on large poster paper and/or

collect student hand-outs

Not enough students had their own devices to access the

video, so I allowed groups of four rather than the pairs

Substitute

you suggested. Students noticed more visual rather than

comments

musical things to improve, such as having all the bowties

Reflection

straight

Focus on intonation and rhythm issues during next class,

Teacher notes

using same format but with more targeted mini-lesson on

listening

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