Name: Charles Moe
Competency: B6
Artifact Title: Vocal Production Unit
Artifact Type: A classroom unit on Vocal Production that I taught during my secondary level student teaching placement at Cambridge-Isanti High School in Cambridge, MN.
Rationale for Inclusion: Competency B6 requires that a teacher of vocal music must demonstrate understandings and skills of vocal performance pedagogy and vocal health. This unit focuses heavily on the concepts of singing in a natural way to preserve vocal health. During the period of my student teaching at Cambridge-Isanti High School, I used a week to teach this unit to the Varsity Choir (this was the ensemble I worked with primarily). This unit gives an overview of the physical parts of the body that make up the human voice, how the whole body is connected as one coordinated system, and proper breathing. These techniques are extremely important to the practice of successful singing but are rarely touched upon so directly. This unit is definitely something I will use in my own classroom.
