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How do we move students from being mere passive recipients of grades to becoming active, empowered participants in the assessment process? This question at the heart of a recent post by Tania Lattanzio,...
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Please can you share the link to the video of the Qanun?
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Hi Cameron, Thanks for your clarity on the question. You state that the Presenting Music piece would be a "completely different piece"; only some of the concepts learned in the experimenting process would be applied. Presenting...
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Hi Jacob, I am happy that you find these strategies helpful. I hunted through files of student work for audio recordings. Unfortunately, these were not included in the available files. However, I did find transcripts of initial student...
Exploring Music in Context - Teaching Strategy II
Tom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5gpnO9RNzQ is this the video?
Activity 3 Performed Adaptation