Name: Charles Moe
Competency: A9
Artifact Title: Sight-singing Sheet
Artifact Type: An example of Sight-singing exercises used during my secondary placement at Cambridge-Isanti High School in Cambridge, MN.
Rationale for Inclusion: While I was student teaching at Cambridge-Isanti High School sight-singing was typically a daily occurrence. Many teachers use pre-published sight-singing exercises, but it was found that those exercises did not meet the needs of the students at Cambridge-Isanti High School. Therefore a series of new exercises was created. The creation and presentation of these exercises relied heavily upon technology. First of all these exercises were created using Finale® music notation computer software. The exercises were then printed off and made into plastic transparencies. Each day a transparency was projected onto a screen using an overhead projector and the students worked on each exercise as a group. By including this I have demonstrated the understandings and skills necessary to choose appropriate current technology and integrate its use into instruction for music classroom and ensemble settings in kindergarten through grade 12.
