Getting+Started

 As current instrumental music educators we have already formulated some ideas of what we believe to be valuable musical skills. As students and teachers we are steeped in the tradition of "old style" learning, in which as teachers we offer a stimulus, and as students we offer a response. Practically, in the classroom this has entailed teaching a skill and expecting the students to practice and master the skill, with little thought to the value they place on the skill.

As we begin our journey into Project Based Learning we are interested in changing the perspective from which we teach, from one of us imposing our musical values on students, to a perspective from which we can build student's musical skills upon their ideas and values. Through this it is our hope that students will continue to learn the core content of playing their instruments, but also become more self-motivated and self-guided in their study.

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