Name: Charles Moe
Competency: A8
Artifact Title: Kodaly 5th Grade
Artifact Type: A monthly teacher's guide to teaching melodic and rhythmic concepts through the Kodaly method for 5th grade.
Rationale for Inclusion: Competency A8 requires that a teacher be able to demonstrate a basic knowledge of approaches to general music instruction, materials, and literature for students of varying abilities. What we see here is a monthly guide to aid teachers in using the Kodaly approach to music education. This particular guide is designed to fit into the 5th grade musical curriculum. As it can be seen, the 5th grade guide has some major changes. No longer are we dealing simply with the broad spectrum of "Rhythmic and Melodic" ideas but rather we now see the concepts of "Rhythm and Meter" along with "Melody, Theory, and Harmony." We also begin to see more complicated rhythms, such as dotted 8th 16th rhythms. After teaching 1st and 2nd grade students in this fashion I would not hesitate to use this method for teaching 5th graders as well.
