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Lesson 19 Strengthening the Foundation of What You Learned!

Happy New Year!

19a. Strengthening the Foundation• Go: Look over the class expectations on

the following slides.

• Learn: Review each part of Piano Man and Imagine. Ask questions if there are any issues that need to be addressed.

• Show: We will All-Play together.

Question: What does it take for you to make something you learned stick?

19a. Grading

• Grades:– Daily: Go, Learn, Show- mostly informal; can be formal.

• Go Activity: most often, you receive up to 10 points for starting immediately on the Go Activity for the day and staying on-task during the time given or until the instructor moves you forward.

• Learn: Staying on-task; practicing, not talking or texting; • Show: Showing what you learned in the time given.

– Playing Tests: Formal• Up to 100 points including practice and performance etiquette- staying on task and

not talking. • Tests can be taken over and over as long as effort is present.

– Journal Entries: • 10 Formal points.

– Midterm • You will draw from a hat to play parts of learned songs.• You will demonstrate semester learning on a written portion of the test.

– Recital Final- date is TBA.• As written in the class description and as expressed repeatedly throughout the

semester, you will perform at least one song in am evening Charity Recital.

19a. Procedures & Expectations• Signing-in and out

– You must sign-in any time you enter once the bell has rung. Points are lost if you are late, even if only a few seconds.

– You must sign-out no matter where you are going during class.

• Cell Phone Usage– Please do not use your phone in class. If you need to use it to enter

important information in this class, please ask first. If the phone is out in the open, you can lose points for not staying on task, following instructions, or for what we call practice etiquette, an important part of being a musician. Consistent ignoring of request to not use your phone forces the instructor to use disciplinary measures. (Please don’t make me go there!).

• Workstation Management– Headphones on monitor– Piano plugged in– Headphones plugged in– Area neat and clear of trash, crumbs, etc.– Respect equipment

19a.Piano Man and Imagine

• Piano Man – Review– All Play: concepts: ¾ time signature; key

signature; note versus chord; middle C; quarter notes; 8th notes on arpeggio; C scale

– Work on Trouble Spots

1. Go: Review Imagine parts.2. Outliers: The Story of Successhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPCOMtJL6vA10,000 Hours= 4 hours a day for 10 years.

3. All Play: Imagine concepts: 4/4 time signature; 8th notes; etc.

4. Trouble Spots

19b. Imagine Concepts Review

No Ok Ave Good ExLecture Style 1 2 3 4 5Ability to Retain Info1 2 3 4 5Learn and Dump 1 2 3 4 5Likeability of Teacher 1 2 3 4 5Subject Area 1 2 3 4 5

Questions:

Outliers: The Story of Success

• Outliers: The Story of Success is a non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, how The Beatles became one of the most successful musical acts in human history, how Joseph Flom built Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom into one of the most successful law firms in the world, how cultural differences play a large part in perceived intelligence and rational decision making, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes. Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours.

• The publication debuted at number one on the bestseller lists for The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, holding the position on the former for eleven consecutive weeks. Generally well-received by critics, Outliers was considered more personal than Gladwell's other works, and some reviews commented on how much Outliers felt like an autobiography. Reviews praised the connection that Gladwell draws between his own background and the rest of the publication to conclude the book. Reviewers also appreciated the questions posed by Outliers, finding it important to determine how much individual potential is ignored by society. However, the lessons learned were considered anticlimactic and dispiriting. The writing style, deemed easy to understand, was criticized for oversimplifying complex sociological phenomena.

Let’s Have a Great Year!

2013-20141. Use this lesson to reflect on management issues you’ve noticed.2. Review all concepts in prep for Midterm. Give a written practice test. Provide all students with all of the information that could be on the written portion of the test.3. Announce the date of the Midterm early.

Instructor Notes: