Adventist Music Curriculum.pdf

Seventh-day Adventist Secondary Curriculum for Music, first edition, November 1990.

Key Components:

1. Framework Overview: Music as a form of worship, communication, and necessary for balanced personal development.
2. Values: Aesthetic, emotional, intellectual, moral, and spiritual.
3. Issues: Choice guidelines, morality, involvement, decision-making, and exploring feelings.
4. Approaches to Valuing: Role modeling, identifying and clarifying values, and creating music.
5. Skill Groups: Creating, listening, performing, and studying history.
6. Assessment: Linked with teaching content, emphasis, and methods.

Objectives:

1. Integrate Adventist Christian values and faith with academic learning.
2. Provide a resource for subject planning.
3. Guide curriculum development.

Target Audience:

1. Music teachers in Adventist secondary schools.
2. Principals and administrators in the Adventist educational system.
3. State authorities to demonstrate Adventist curriculum emphasis.

Framework Structure:

1. Introduction to the framework.
2. Suggestions for using the framework.
3. Definition of a framework.
4. Overview of the music framework.
5. Rationale for the framework.
6. Objectives and values.
7. Issues and approaches to valuing.
8. Skill groups and assessment.
9. Unit flowchart and topic summaries.