I’ve been thinking for months now about how the perfect assignment journal for my students would look. As usual, it took much longer to make it than I anticipated, but I’m very excited with the results and wanted to share it with you. Feel free to send your students to the 2011 Assignments Journal to download and print their own.
On a related note, Susan Paradis also released what is perfect assignment journal for her studio. We talked about some of the elements that were the same between our 2 versions, so perhaps one of them will be just what you are looking for.
Oh, and you might be wondering what the PPPPiece is down at the bottom…more on that later. Does anyone care to guess?
What does YOUR perfect assignment journal look like?
Looks great, Wendi! I really like the layout of the top area. I currently have a linear circle of 5ths in my journal (we call it a “magic wand” for theory prep) but the way you have, along with the minor keys would be a nice step up for the older students. I also print staff pages to add to the end of my journal but I like the staff and keyboard you have included on each page for quick and easy reference. You’ve hit a homerun again!!
AHHH!!! I have a friend whose name is spelled Wendi….sorry I made the mistake on your name :/
No problem shelly. I’m glad you like the new assignment sheet!
LOVE your assignment sheet! It’s so complete and I really like those check boxes, the staff and keyboard you included. So handy! I’m trying out with email assignments this year and I’d love to use your template as a background 🙂 Thank you again for sharing!!
This really has great features. I especially enjoy the event countdown. My experience at music camp putting together a little band with an 8, 10, and 12 year old this year taught me how much an impending event causes a desire to practice. I’ve never been begged to practice more than preparing for the camp talent show. I’ll be planning many more events for my students this year and I’m going to encourage higher participation rates as well knowing that I’ll be encouraging practice inadvertently.
Wendy, that’s an awesome assignment page! I love it. It has everything you could ever want to assign all on one page! Looking forward to reading about your new rhythm material. Wish I could be there on Friday to learn about it.
I wish you could be there too, Megan. We’ll miss you!
This assignment page looks fabulous! Thank-you so much for sharing it. I’d like to use it, but tweak it just a bit for my studio. Would it be possible for you to send me the document as a Word or Pages (Mac) file?
Hi, Wendy! I’d been reading in Pno-Ped-L about going for goal-oriented practice charts and then Betty Smith talked about it at the kick-off last week! Didn’t know how I was going to create the chart myself —– with my limited tech knowledge. So thank you for this great resource. It’ll be perfect for my middle-school & high-school kids. (I’ll create a simple line chart for my little beginner girls.) But, okay —– PPP Piece: Pay Per Pop? Pianissississimo? Pennies Per Pound? LOL!
Thanks Carol! PPPPiece is “Practically Perfect Performance Piece and the students are keeping a list of their PPPPieces at the front of their assignment journal. Then, they are going to be assigned one each week so that they can keep it polished.
I might actually like to receive the document as well ——- might customize it a bit for my studio. I also use a Mac and have Pages software. If this isn’t possible I’ll certainly still be able to use it as is.
I need to post it…have been meaning to for a while, but I’m working on getting the rhythm resource available online. Stay tuned and I’ll get it up sometime.
Excellent assignment sheet! I like this a lot and like how it it includes the circle of fifths at the top!
Wendy, I love your assignment sheet and going to use at my studio. Question: in a scale section you have an interval check box. It is something I would like to know, what is that exercise?
Thank you.
Our state musicianship exams require that the students play the intervals of their scales. So, in the key of D for example, they would play the intervals up from tonic: DE, DF#, DG, DA, DB, DC#. That way they know what intervals belong in what scales. Does that make sense?