Unit Plan for Janine & Jeffrey’s Beginner Band
I had the pleasure of collaborating with Janine King twice in just as many weeks to give our presentations on a couple of topics which we believed to be a pretty popular in high school music not only around the province of BC, but also in the entire nation. Unlike the beginner brass band inquiry workshop outline which I had the grand pleasure of working alongside her with, this unit plan took on a different entity of its own over time and we ended up coming up with two slightly different versions in the end: hers going through with a streamlined unit which focused on the progress of the students’ abilities and personal development while mine adhered to aesthetic sensitivity among the ensemble and an emphasis to which the quality of the production can be swayed positively if this sensitivity is treated carefully early on.