Assessment
Achievement Levels
This is often a neglected part of the Guide (see pages 71-73), but it is an important summary of not only the vocabulary contained in the level descriptors in each of the assessment components but also...
Assessment in Practice
Mark Bands and Best-Fit Approach
For each component of the program, there are criteria for assessment. For each of the criteria, there is a range of marks in which the student may be operating. These are known as the mark bands to which...
Assessment in Practice
Understanding Assessment
In order for your students to do well in the course and for you to maximise their potential, it is essential that you have a clear understanding of the assessment requirements. These pages help you to...
Assessment in Practice
Submission Requirements
This page offers you a quick summary of all the submission requirements for DP Music for both higher-level and standard-level students. The materials have been divided into internal and external assessments...
Essentials for Teachers
Relationship to Other Studies
The IB Music DP programme is often compared to various other curricular models. Many of these studies depend on the part of the world or the kind of school in which one may find oneself. In many cases,...
Essentials for Teachers
Middle Years Programme
Many teachers of the current DP Music course have remarked on the connection to the Middle Years Programme (MYP). This consistency was in fact, one of the intentions of the design of the current Music...
Essentials for Teachers
Arts Aims
There are a series of statements made on page 18 of the Guide that outlines the aims of the ARTS (relating to all the subjects that make up GROUP 6) followed by statements that relate more specifically...
Activities
Bartók's Sonata for Violin BB124
This page offers a series of lesson ideas for Exploring as a Performer and specifically the performed adaptation. The source material that has been chosen comes from Bartok's Sonata for Solo Violin, 2nd...
Blog
Three Months After Launch - April 20 2024 Free
It is that time of the year when teachers are in the final throes of uploading work for the Group 6 subjects. For music, it is staggered into three phases: 1) Exploring Music in Context (March 15), 2)...
Teaching Strategies and Lesson Ideas
Exploring Music in Context - Teaching Strategy I
This is one of the four syllabus areas of the curriculum. Exploring Music in Context is concerned with one of the processes of studying and investigating music. It involves aural, kinaesthetic, and scholarly...