Resources and Teaching Materials
Handouts, Wall Displays, and Classroom Aids
- WMEA Standards Poster – PDF
- WMEA Standards Wall Display – PDF
- WMEA Standards Wall Display (alternative) – PDF
- Artistic Process/Process Components Poster – Google Doc – submitted by Amanda Reinhold
Teaching Plans and Curriculum Samples
Real life examples of how teachers are using the WMEA Music Standards in their curriculum and unit planning.
Submit your own examples of implementing the WMEA Music Standards in your classroom!
How are YOU using the standards in your classroom? Send us your curriculum outlines, unit and lesson plans, assessment practices and report cards that utilize the standards. A consistent format is not necessary. We will organize these into categories and post them here.
Email your ideas to the WMEA Music Standards committee.
Curriculum Plans
- 5-12 Choir Curriculum – submitted by Kaila Bingen
- Middle Level Ensemble “Where I’m at Now” Self Assessment – submitted by Kristen Flak
- Elementary General (.pptx) – submitted by Christine Hayes
- Middle Level Band – submitted by Kendra Junk
- Unpacking Teaching Standards Breakout – July 2019 – submitted by Richard Tengowski
Unit Plan
- High School Band – submitted by Kate Mitchell
- SmartMusic Lesson Plan – submitted by Richard Tengowski
- CMP Connections – submitted by Richard Tengowski
- Human Jukebox Project – submitted by Laura Burns
Artistic Process
- Create – Lesson for Middle Level – submitted by Aimee Swanson
- Perform – Lesson for Middle Level – submitted by Aimee Swanson
- Respond/Create – Lesson for Middle Level – submitted by Hannah Muehbauer
Additional Materials
Wisconsin Public Television Project
- Using the WMEA Standards to Design Curriculum with the WPT Resources
- Elementary General – Dontcha Know About Your Past: Finding Our Roots Through Dance – submitted by Aimee Swanson
- Secondary General Music – Students are Crushin’ It – submitted by Leyla Sanyer
- Band – Sounds of the Caribbean – submitted by Richard Tengowski
- Orchestra – Czech-ing Off Another Performance – submitted by Leyla Sanyer
- Choir – Creativity and Improvisation: Letting Music Free Your Soul – submitted by Aimee Swanson
- Secondary Ensemble – We Learn by Teaching – submitted by Leyla Sanyer
Misc. Materials
- National Opportunity to Learn grid (PDF)
- Wisconsin DPI Curriculum Guide Program Development Guidelines (PDF)
Links
National Links
- NAfME 2014 standards page
- NAfME Glossary for National Core Arts Standards in Music (PDF)
- Model Cornerstone Assessments
- RESPONDING process lessons with Library of Congress
- 8th Grade NAFME/LOC RESPONDING lesson– Aimee Swanson, WI Music Educator
Wisconsin Links
- Wisconsin Model Academic Standards in Music (1997) Abridged from Curriculum Guide (PDF)
- Wisconsin DPI Curriculum Guide in Music (2009) for purchase which includes the Program Development Information
- Budde, P. 2017 2017 WMEA Wisconsin Music Standards. WSM Magazine
- O’Toole, P. 2003 Shaping Sound Musicians: An Innovative Approach to Teaching Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance. Chicago: GIA Publications
- Wisconsin DPI – Music Education Standards
