Fine Arts - Music

8616 Columbia Ave
Munster, IN 46321

Phone
219-836-9111
Fax
219-836-3215

Music education in the STM provides a balanced, sequential, and comprehensive K-12 curriculum, which fosters the understanding of the value of music as an expressive art form through general music instruction and performance oriented instruction and experiences.

In the STM students will explore music in all its aspects:

* Singing
* Listening
* Understand and perform musical notation
* Understand the form and structure of music
* Master the physical skills necessary for musical
performance in a progression toward higher performance
technique
* Understand music in relation to culture and history
* Analyze and describe elements in music
* Build a foundation for music literacy
* Understand and perform musical expression

All children can learn to make music.

All children should be given the opportunity to develop their artistic potential to the fullest.

Music is an integral part of the holistic education of every child.

Music impacts the entire school curriculum.

Music curricula need to include state mandated standards and reflect the vision for music education in the STM.

In both general music instruction and performance-based instruction, interdisciplinary learning occurs in such areas as history, literature, and cross-cultural awareness.

Through the achievement of excellence in performance-based instruction, students learn teamwork, cooperative learning behavior, discipline, and positive self-esteem.

Multiple forms of assessment are used to communicate achievement to students, teachers, parents and the community. The results drive instructional practices, curriculum development and promote critical thinking and metacognition skills. In addition, formative and summative assessments provide experiences that parallel state assessments.

Assessments can be implemented:

* as a pre test to assess students’ existing knowledge

* as a post test to assess knowledge learned

* to assess the effectiveness of instruction

* in a multiple choice, short answer, cloze, and narrative formats

* in the form of student presentations, products, conferences, and running records


The links below provide a detailed description of the standards, skills, concepts and vocabulary your child would need to master at the completion of that grade level or course. Skills and concepts in red indicate where the School Town of Munster has either upgraded state standards or/and added local standards based on the needs of the students or course.