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Teaching Material Classical Music: The "Manual" (PDF)

Please note that various portions in the 20-part "Teaching Material Classical Music" are available free of charge in a very similar form on other pages and other websites. The essential part of the affordable version for € 11,90* are the three parts "Homework" – "Test / Classwork" – "Answer + Info". Together with the certificates (... for the winners) and the valuable winner prizes (... for all of your students) you can use them for an unlimited period, even decades. Please also note that in all parts of the Teaching Material, both you and your kids are addressed: So you can use each file directly for your students as well. A "side note": André Rieu not only performs Classical Music and Popular Classical Music ! ! !

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“Instruction Manual” for Your Face-to-Face Classes, for Distance Learning, Home Schooling and an Endless Mix of Options With It

My "Teaching Material Classical Music": In the middle, it is the "homework", on the right, the page differs only by the box for the points and the place for the name of your kids, which you "turn" into a number and enter on the top right. Only you will then know who is the 5, the 100, or the 7878. Yes, I am overdoing things sometimes.

Preamble

Both the homework and the test / classwork will not be graded directly, nor will your kids get both papers back. The grading of the individual answers is done together with you and "generously". Cheating and copying are not "punished", friends can also form small teams (... maximum two...) ... that is how Classical Music becomes fun and remains associated with fun and joy for a lifetime. Conversely proportional with my experience in elementary school: My recorder only squeaked back then. And that for exactly one lesson.

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Process Proposal

Essential with my "Teaching Material Classical Music" are several options: You can follow my suggested sequence. But you can also use individual modules to create a mix between my suggestions and your habits. In addition, with the "Teaching Material Classical Music", you can actually decide for yourself how many lessons and how long you and your kids want to spend on the subject of Classical Music. This starts with "ticking off" the material in one school lesson: You inform yourself on my PDF "What is Classical Music?" and then "transport" your knowledge over one to three units. Once is first doing the homework with a subsequent test school lesson on the subject and the correction by the kids with my video as a second homework to the procedure according to my proposal. And even with this, the project can be further compressed or extended. Of course, only the first 50 or 100 questions can be distributed. Or distribute all 150 over three units, or even six with 25 questions each. Then the test / classwork can also be omitted ... so you are highly flexible. Already for € eight there is a speaker for your smartphone, tablet, or laptop, which is so important for playing Classical Music, whenever the subject is discussed together in the classroom.

So my suggestion is to provide your kids with "homework" as a first measure. They are supposed to google, ask friends and classmates or parents, and some answers can just be guessed. Alternatively, of course, you can spend the first class period lecturing in general terms about the problem of "What is Classical Music?" (... and yes, it is a problem, because everyone defines "Classical Music" differently) and then assign the homework. Another option is to give all 150 questions as one homework assignment, but then there will be no homework at all twice for that.

Inform your kids – after collecting or transferring back the homework PDFs – that this homework will not be corrected. They have "done their duty." Don't make the kids wait for corrections. It's not a chemistry class, and it's not aimed at component learning.

About the test or classwork: Since it is – actually – not about actual performance, but only about introducing your kids to the topic, the test can work in the classroom or at home. Of course, at home cheating is easily possible, but this is of no importance for this topic. Even a combination is possible if individual kids, for whatever reason, cannot attend the lesson. Massively encouraged for this should be the listening of single Classical Music titles, findable in my list Classical Music Top 100. So that "cheating" does not work quite so easily, that is sending the "homework" a second time, the test – in contrast to the homework – is enriched by "little graphic squares" per question. However, the following applies to all cheating: It is permissible, but of course it should not be communicated in this way.

Once you have received all the tests with the kids' names back, assign a number to each name. It's best to start with 9, then it's effortful to evaluate whose collection of answers a child has in front of him by the number after you've returned the work you've received for a common correction.

Regarding the correction of the test. You have several options. In distance learning, just as you teach all other subjects, you can go through question after question face-to-face with your kids. You "reveal the answer" and prompt for zero points or one point. Allowance of answers is very tolerant: Have the kids write in their available manuscript an "anonymous classmate" score per answer. Of course, you can do this in the classroom as well. For your entertainment, you have four options: Print out your "Answers and Info" document for the lesson (1), or scroll – electronically – through this document (2), or use my "teleprompter" (3): It is described in more detail later in the package presentation under item 12. The "teleprompter" is the document mentioned in the last sentence, laid out in landscape format for this purpose, and thus with larger type and precisely switchable from one question to the next on a screen with just one click. So you see these units large on your laptop. Or project them via a video projector or on the interactive whiteboard.

Alternatively, you can also use my video (4) for the answers to all 150 questions. The very significant advantage: It is perfect moderation, offers illustrations, is more exciting, is accompanied by Classical Music, and makes the only demanding part uncomplicated: Your moderation with the correction together. And ... this works in distance learning anyway, but also in face-to-face classes. In face-to-face classes, there are more sub-options: Of course, you can present the video also via the interactive whiteboard in the classroom or in a room that has such a whiteboard. But it also works via a small video projector. The cheapest ones cost only $ 50 new and are perfectly sufficient.

Your kids grade each answer with zero points or one point after you or I explain it. More points are not supposed to be given. After grading, your students add up all the points and determine which document has the highest score. Alternatively, this can also apply to the first three kids. It will quickly become apparent who has the one or three winning papers in front of him or her. You look in your documents and "uncover" which student – or which two kids ... or which mini teams – are "hiding" behind the winning number(s). You now crown the winners and award the winners' certificates ... and prizes to all the children. After a successful lesson complex, treat yourself with the audio collage "Bach Quotes", the gift to you in the XXL package.

A Very Special, Very Heartfelt Request

We both finance with this "Teaching Material Classical Music" our common "Johann Sebastian Bach Mission" and the goal to introduce children and adults to Classical Music in an additional way. For this reason, we kindly ask you not to pass this material on to teacher friends. To all your students – until eternity – with pleasure. We ask your colleagues to please "invest" this small, fair amount themselves.

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