String Orchestra

This is a full practice log for the 2022-2023 school year for your string orchestra students. This product has a full calendar of each day in the school year, along with a way to log practice minutes for each day, make practice goals, log the final practice amount, and write a reflection for the month. This practice log will help you and your students stay organized, and it is a very easy way to incorporate regular (and actually useful!) writing assignments in your music classroom as well.

This product comes with both a printable, and digital version (Google Slides) of the practice log. All you have to do is share the link provided with your students. The link will allow the students to “make a copy” of the practice log, so each student will get their own editable practice log. From there, your job is done! Have students keep track of their practice for each month, and turn in that month for a grade. Or, have them add you as a collaborator to their practice log, and then you can check their practice logs each month/week. This will also work perfectly for Google Classroom! Either way, your job of keeping students and you more organized will be much easier with this digital and printable practice log!

This concert review/reflection assignment and tool is perfect for your orchestra students to reflect on their concert performance. In this product, you will find both a printable and digital/Google Form version of the concert review assignment. Share the Google Form with your orchestra students, and have them complete the guided concert review assignment. Click on the link provided in the product to gain easy access to the editable Google Form, or use the printable version if you wish! The Google Form will keep track of all the data students give, and it will automatically graph the students’ feedback. This makes for incredibly easy data for goals and data tracking for your orchestra performances!

In this assignment, you will find:

-15 different musical categories to rate the concert performance – Preparedness, Note Accuracy and Intonation, Rhythmic Accuracy, Tempo, Tone, Left Hand Position, Bow Hold, Dynamics, Accents, Bowing, Professionalism, Music Selection, Transitions, Lights, Sound and Stage, General Mood of the Concert.

-A rating system on a scale of 1-5 for each of the 15 categories (this auto-graphs on the Google Form)

-Step by step guided instructions for your students for how to complete this assignment.

Use this tool every time your students give a concert to compare your growth, and allow your orchestra students to take ownership over their performances. This is a perfect process for reviewing a concert performance with your string orchestra students, and it’s incredibly easy for you. Enjoy!

This is a bundle of three editable, (Google Quiz & printable) scaffolded pre/post tests for orchestra students. Year 1 is for beginning orchestra students, year 2 for intermediate, and year 3 for advanced. All three tests are appropriate for the experience level, and build off of one another. These tests are PERFECT for the middle school orchestra director, as they will test the 6th, 7th and 8th grade orchestra standards perfectly. The Google tests are self-grading, and require no extra work from you to get easy growth data year after year! Below, are the descriptions for all three different tests in this bundle:

YEAR 1

This is a Google Form/Quiz Editable Pre-Post Test for beginning string orchestra year 1. The Google Quiz keeps all data saved on the form! Included: Printable Digital, Answer Key. Assign this to your students, and the Google test grades itself, and will keep all data saved for you. This test is meant to be given to beginning, year 1 orchestra students once at the beginning of your class, and again at the end to show pre/post data improvement. It is perfect for having data at those evaluations, and it requires no extra work from you, the teacher! Even though the digital test grades itself, this product also includes a printable version and an answer key to make your job even easier!

In this test, the following musical concepts are tested (see the preview for the full test):

• Note and rest values – Whole, half, quarter, dotted half, eighth, dotted quarter
• Time signatures and tempos – time signatures, 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, tempo, andante, allegro, and moderato
• Clefs and notation – treble clef, bass clef, alto (viola) clef, flats, sharps, naturals, key signatures, note names in treble, bass and alto clef
• Dynamics – piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, crescendo and decrescendo
• Other Musical Terms and Symbols – Repeat, ending 1 and 2, fermata, rehearsal number, up bow, down bow, tie, and slur

YEAR 2

In this test, the following musical concepts are tested (see the preview for the full test):

• Note and rest values – Whole, half, quarter, dotted half, eighth, dotted quarter, long rests and sixteenth notes
• Time signatures and tempos – time signatures, 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, Common Time, Cut Time, 6/8, 3/8, ritardando and accelerando
• Clefs and notation – treble clef, bass clef, alto/viola clef, flats, sharps, naturals, key signatures, note names in treble, alto and bass clef
• Dynamics – pianissimo, piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissimo, crescendo and decrescendo
• Other Musical Terms and Symbols – Repeat, fermata, rehearsal number, bow lifts, articulation, tie, and slur, staccato, tenuto, tremolo, pizzicato, arco, D.S., Coda, D.C. al fine, pickup, anacrusis, phrase, syncopation, and enharmonic notes

YEAR 3

In this test, the following musical concepts are tested (see the preview for the full test):

• Note and rest values – Whole, half, quarter, dotted half, eighth, dotted quarter, long rests and sixteenth notes, triplets
• Time signatures and tempos – time signatures, 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, Common Time, Cut Time, 6/8, 3/8, ritardando and accelerando, rallentando
• Clefs and notation – treble clef, bass clef, alto/viola clef, flats, sharps, naturals, key signatures, note names in treble, alto and bass clef, D major key signature, G major key signature and C major key signature
• Dynamics – pianississimo, pianissimo, piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissimo, fortississimo, crescendo and decrescendo
• Other Musical Terms and Symbols – Repeat, fermata, rehearsal number, bow lifts, articulation, tie, and slur, staccato, tenuto, tremolo, pizzicato, arco, D.S., Coda, D.C. al fine, pickup, anacrusis, phrase, syncopation, molto ritardando, poco a poco, dolce, chord, arpeggio, and enharmonic notes

Upon purchase of this product, you will be provided with the PDF version and answer key. On the second page, you will see a “link”. Click that link to obtain your own editable copy of the digital Google Quiz! Share it or assign it to your students and you’re good to go! In my opinion, this is the best way to go, since all your data will be saved automatically when your students take the test.

Personally, I have always struggled to show good, valuable data for my orchestra students. It is so hard to find a valuable way to accomplish the task of showing growth in an orchestra classroom. I made this pre/post test to help teachers show growth, nail their evaluation meetings, and I wanted to make it incredibly easy to calculate the data.