11/03/09 Capturing Student Reflection During Violin Class
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series documenting the Atrium School M+MI Program’s Violin Project. Documentation efforts, including this post, are being led by NewsBlog moderator Randy Wong.
One of the most exciting roles (I think) within a Music Learning Leadership team is the role of Documentation Specialist, which is someone charged with collecting, articulating, and making visible any evidence from the MLL team’s project. In other words, the DS will probably be collecting student work samples, interviewing other team members, gathering reflections (by students, teachers, or other team members), etc. and helping to compile it into a digital portfolio that really showcases his/her MLL team’s work. They also assist in the design of rubrics, student assessments, and classroom activities, with the purpose of skillful documentation in mind.
Last Friday was my first opportunity to collect documentation of our new M+MI violin project at the Atrium School. We asked students to reflect on the Music-Math Matrix ‘play & sing’ by drawing and/or writing. As each was completing his/her work, I asked each student to interpret his/her reflection for me. I then assembled some of their responses into the video below.
I’m looking forward to future documentation from this project!
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Randy, thank you for letting us know about the importance of the documentation specialist in the Consortium’s work. The diversity of drawings and the children’s ability to sing from these drawings shows that musical understanding can be measured at every step of the learning process!!
I wish there were a music learning laboratory school in every school district so that every parent or school couild have the choice of brining this kind of music program to their children!