My Philosophy of Music Education changes every time I learn something new about it. Since I have been at Westminster, my views have changed at least 5 times. As of right now, the few things that have stuck with me involving my philosophy are as follows. I believe that all students should be involved during their music education class, which means that the teacher, must connect with them to keep them involved in whatever topic is being taught. A way to go about this, would be a use of Critical Pedagogy in the classroom. The teacher should honor their world, and get the students involved. Now music is a subject that can be taught in many different ways, and should be in order to meet all the students needs. Some students may have more knowledge in the subject than others, and that is why while assessing the students I believe that there need to be different standards for each child. I think that the musical growth and knowledge of the student should be assessed. As long as the student comes out of the classroom learning something, then I think that the teacher has done his/her job.
The way that I would assess in my classroom, would be on a variety of things. I believe that my grading scale would be based off of many different factors. One, of course being attendance, because if the student is not there then they would not be learning anything anyway. Second, I think that it should be based on how far the student has grown musically throughout the year. Third, if it is a general music class, I feel that group projects and possibly tests would also be a factor in my assessing. If this was a choir that I was teaching, then I would try my best to create lesson groups and grade the students individually on how much they have improved during the time spent together.
Overall, I think that it is very important to have assessments, and to see the progress that is being made in the classroom.
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