This is a section of the NYSSMA website intended to provide music educators with assistance in developing lessons that are directly connected to the New York State Learning Standards for the Arts. The information found in this site are Instructional Ideas – encapsulated concepts that are briefly formed into a lesson structure that can be expanded by the individual teacher. They have been submitted as actual lessons that have been used by practicing music educators and represent best practices for instructional strategies in the music classroom. Although the format follows that of the New York State Education Department’s publication Music: A Resource Guide for Standards-Based Education (2002), the Instructional Ideas in Lesson Bytes are not all the same. Many have been developed since the publication of that document, and are intended to further expand the teacher’s repertoire.
Lessons can be accessed in several ways: by classroom application (band, chorus, orchestra, general music); grade level; standard; performance indicator; or by word search. Simply click on the appropriate link to follow the strand, until you find the Instructional Idea that meets your needs.
One link allows you to ‘Share a Lesson Byte’. The Curriculum Committee encourages you to send us your own ‘tried and true’ Instructional Idea(s). Your contribution will allow Lesson Bytes to become increasingly more helpful to music educators.
Submit an Idea (coming soon)
Search Lesson Bytes (coming soon)
SED Resource Guide (coming soon)
List of Contributors
Thank you to the following contributors:
- Bonnie Verron
- Julie Harrison
- Karen Robinson
Help
If you are a Mac user and experience difficulty, try Mozilla Firefox as your browser.
This is the official homepage for Mozilla – the creator of Firefox. There is a link on that page to download Firefox for PCs.
For Mac users, this page has links for Mac and Linux users, in many different languages
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/
This site contains a nice tutorial about how to install Firefox, and its features:
http://opensourcearticles.com/introduction_to_firefox
A question that is frequently asked is why the formatting editor does not work with Internet Explorer on a Mac. The reason is that IE on a Mac does not have the built in software needed to create a formatting editor. Microsoft decided years ago not to provide new features in IE on the Mac, so editors such as the one available for Firefox cannot run on Internet Explorer on a Mac.
Other questions? Contact Fred Weingarten at: musarts@aol.com