Ben Kestner's Blog
Thoughts on Education
Category: Curriculum
Does Your School work for your Child?
Through my years of teaching and school administration I have spent hours and hours trying to make the curriculum and content I was responsible for delivering fit the children under my care, desperately trying to differentiate my lesson plans so that they could access the learning at their level.
Backwards Design in the Music Classroom
Teacher: We’re going to learn about The Baroque period today, including such great composers as Bach, Handel, Scarlatti and so on. Student: Why? Teacher: Why?….well,…because it’s a very important period in musical history. Student: Why is it so important and aren’t there hundreds of… Continue Reading “Backwards Design in the Music Classroom”
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