Kentucky+and+Main-(+Beth)

Kentucky


 * There are some ideas here that might spark our thought process as we go towards the writing of benchmarks
 * First- they use "Big Ideas"
 * The benchmarks themselves are written in the manner that I believe we will want to head
 * The divisions are different however- they divide the benchmarks into Primary, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and then HS

Main


 * VERY compact- while we might get a few ideas- their work is very broad in nature
 * They use "guiding principals"
 * They only have three main "indicators"- Music Difficulty, Notation and terminology, Listening and describing
 * The benchmarks are divided into PK-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9- diploma.