Standard 3: The teacher of PK-12 music has skills in reading and writing music.

As a music teacher, I am skilled in reading and writing music, and can teach my students

techniques and skills needed to develop aural skills and error detection, sight reading strategies,

and gain musical literacy. I meet this standard as a teacher because I can read music in all clefs

for any instrument, and I have aural error detection skills that will allow me to find where

students make mistakes in reading music and correct those. I am confident in my ability to

compose and arrange music to best cater to the needs of my students and find ways to get

them involved in the process of not only reading music, but writing their own. I can sight read

melodies and rhythms in order to assist and breakdown concepts for my students to be able to

understand and perform. I will include listening examples and aural pop quizzes, where students

will be given the opportunity to practice implementing music theory and aural skills during

rehearsal. The repertoire we study will help my students become musically engaged and

develop their musical literacy.

My students will benefit from my teaching of this standard by learning the best strategies

for sight reading and becoming musically literate. By using solfege, students will be able to

understand intervals in a way that is beneficial to them when sight reading. Reviewing key

signatures and practicing sight reading rhythms and various melodies, along with supplemental

listening and additional aural detection skills, students will begin to hold themselves and each

other accountable for mistakes they begin to recognize as they rehearse. My students will also

benefit from my teaching of this standard by learning how to not only read music, but how to

write music using correct notation and music theory rules.