San Juan Unified School District         Carmichael, California

Compiled and edited by Jack Stanfill   musicview@hotmail.com  updated: December 18, 2001 

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Music Skills are how students demonstrate concepts - what students do to engage music learning.

Music Concepts follow a sequencing scheme (1-4) and are arranged in categories within elements. This codification scheme permits teachers to readily identify concepts used in designing lesson plans and curriculum.

Music Correlations suggest that various aspects of music learning align with other subject areas.

MusicView © 1998 Jack Stanfill A research software program designed to help the classroom music teacher access the variety of music teaching material published by Silver Burdett Ginn and McGraw Hill in 1995. Basically, what MusicView does is interpret music learning by identifying music concepts and skills wherever they occur. This should be the function of the publishers' own scope and sequence. They (the publishers) fall woefully short of achieving this ideal, however. Both of the publishers have admitted that their product is written to appease the least knowledgeable among teachers (what is hideously referred to as the lowest common denominator). MusicView analysis reveals that their insult to teacher intelligence is totally unnecessary. There actually exists a wealth of material (40% more than they indicate) that works to affect learning music. The same concept of applying music skills and concept to learning is applied to interpreting the national standards.

Primary Standards / Intermediate Standards : The National Standards for Music Education from The School Music Program - A New Vision, MENC, 1994.

Unofficial SJUSD music standards (includes alignment with the national standards):

  grade 1   grade 2   grade 3   grade 4    grade 5    grade 6    grade 7  

Music Standards - An essay