The Effect of Temperament on my Goals

According to this temperament survey: http://danny.quantumspark.net/tsurvey/, I am mostly a "doer" and a "thinker". My aforementioned goals of faithfully upholding a system for planning and tracking the activities for my doubled number of classes, and developing an electronic method of tracking students interaction with material in general music class is well suited for much of these temperaments.

Being a "doer", this activity allows me to use my tendency toward self-reliance and taking on continuous challenges to get stuff done. Two of the "weaknesses" of this temperament are taking on too much, and an inattention to detail. The goal will force me to pay greater attention to detail in the context of planning and tracking, and the second goal may find me having taken on more than I can realistically do given the time I have.

This is a fun survey either way!

My Professional Goals for the year 2015-16

Being in two schools this year provides me with an opportunity to maximize my systems of organization in order to best provide a custom music curriculum that grows and changes with the particular needs of the class I am teaching. This year, I teach 18 different classes plus 25 groups of instrumental lessons, each with their own set of needs that are based upon the musical content instruction they have had to this point. I am not for a cookie cutter approach to curricular planning – the same lesson for every class of similar grade level - but I’m finding that taking a customized approach with this many classes to be a challenge. As a response to this challenge, I have created a very concise system of planning and tracking activities that, if properly applied, will not only ensure the continuity of learning for each class, but it will begin to build a personalized music learning profile for each student based upon the material they have interacted with from pre-school through 6^th grade.

My goal with this particular system is to continue its implementation with fidelity in order to ensure the personalization of the content for each class I teach.

In addition to this goal, I would like to broaden the scope to include the research of a way to electronically track specific musical activities with their standards based components for specific classes and specific students according to the New National Music Standards and the Vermont Music Standards. This may come in the form of a google form that is organized by class and uploads data for each class and every specific student. The trick will be in how to transfer this information so it can follow students year after year as they change from class to class. The ultimate outcome would be do document the amount of interaction each student has had with various musical material in their Pre-K through 6^th grade general music classes.