The music curriculum at White Township Consolidated School is aligned with the 2014 National Core Arts Standards for Preschool through Grade 8 Music.  Click here for the full listing of the Core Music Standards for General Music.

 

The Core Music Standards are all about Music Literacy. 

The standards emphasize conceptual understanding in areas that reflect the actual processes in which musicians engage. The standards cultivate a student’s ability to carry out the three Artistic Processes* of

 

• Creating,
• Performing
• Responding.

 

These are the processes that musicians have followed for generations, even as they connect through music to their selves and their societies. And isn’t competence in Creating, Performing, and Responding what we really want for our students?

 

Students need to have experience in creating, to be successful musicians and to be successful 21st century citizens.

Students need to perform – as singers, as instrumentalists, and in their lives and careers.

Students need to respond to music, as well as to their culture, their community, and their colleagues.

 

 

For more information visit the National Association for Music Education.