[LM_NET] IBMA Launches Bluegrass Lesson Plan Competition

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IBMA Launches Bluegrass Lesson Plan Competition
http://www.ibma.org/events.programs/schools/lessonplan.asp


As a part of our mission to help more young people
discover bluegrass music, IBMA is launching its first
annual Bluegrass Lesson Plan Competition. 

The competition is designed to encourage and reward
the creation of instructional units at all grade
levels that will expose students to the sounds and the
analysis of bluegrass music.  Lesson plans will be
judged by a team of experienced teachers familiar with
the genre, with the aim of honoring plans that deliver
high quality instruction in an interesting way, while
conforming to educational standards nation-wide and
also being easily adaptable by other teachers who may
or may not be familiar with the genre.


The Lesson Plans Competition underlines the
organization’s intent to build curriculum materials in
a variety of content areas that will build awareness
and appreciation of bluegrass music as a unique
American art form.


Four prizes of $300 will be awarded to the best lesson
plans in grades K-12, with up to six additional lesson
plans receiving $100 “honorable mention” awards. The
top lesson plans will be posted on a new page of the
IBMA website, for use by teachers and home schooling
parents around the world.  

Lesson plans may be sent immediately, with November
30, 2006 as the deadline for submissions.  For an
application form, call 888-438-4262, email
nancyc@ibma.org or go to www.ibma.org.  Judges will
review lesson plans December – January, and winners
will be notified Feb. 1, 2007.  In addition to their
prize money and having lessons posted online at
ibma.org, teachers who write winning lesson plans will
receive a plaque and will be invited to attend the
Special Awards Luncheon at next year’s World of
Bluegrass events.  

Additional info:

    * Both single class lesson plans and multi-class
units of study will be welcome for submission.
    * K-12 lesson plans may include classes in the
following five content areas: Music (instruction or
appreciation), Science & Math, Language Arts,
Technology and Social Studies.
    * Plans will be judged for suitability and
relevance, accuracy of information, degree of actively
engaging and stimulating students, organization,
evaluation measures, and to what degree they address
state educational standards.  (A guideline list of
sample educational standards utilized in most states
will be available to teachers.) 
    * Rather than recognizing specific exceptional
individual bluegrass programs, this competition will
be evaluated on how well the lesson plans might
transfer easily to other teachers and other school
systems.
    * Lesson plans from home schooling parents and
also university students studying to be teachers will
be welcome.


~~~~~~~mary gavlik
librarian
chuckey-doak middle school
afton, tn


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places 
where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason
for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. 
— Monty Python skit

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