QUAVER LESSONS: COMPONENTS AND AUDIENCE
Quaver Lessons:
Components and Audience
Lessons Include 3 Important Components
and Resources for Teachers & Students
The purpose of this document is to explain how our unique solution for providing instructional materials should be interpreted when assessing our Curriculum.
Quaver’s Beyond Marvelous General Music Curriculum for Grades K-8 is 100% online, and therefore
has many fundamental differences and advantages from traditional printed curriculum product. For
one, there are no materials delivered directly to schools in print form. Instead, all materials are delivered digitally over the internet. Even materials that are intended for print, such as teacher lesson
plans and worksheets, are delivered in electronic formats that can be printed when needed.
Additionally, our curriculum is unique in that we present interactive lessons using our Lesson Plan
Presenter web application. This delivery method serves several purposes: it enables a teacher to
present instructional material by displaying it to the class (preferably with a projector or interactive
whiteboard), and it enables students to receive instruction and demonstrate understanding through
the interactive elements.
Each Lesson includes 3 important Components:
1. Lesson Screens. This content is what the teacher presents to the class by displaying it at the front of the classroom. Many of the screens contain images, audio, or
video that illustrate key knowledge points or skills. But our format enables us to go
beyond mere presentation, as our lesson screens also contain interactive elements,
games, song creation tools, assessments, and more. The lesson screens are equally
important for the teacher to instruct students as for the student to receive information and demonstrate knowledge.
2. Teacher Notes. Each lesson screen has easy-to-access notes which remind the
teacher of the key points for that screen. The lesson notes go beyond simply
describing what is shown on the screen and may also contain key knowledge points
that fulfill state standards, outline in-class activities or discussions, describe how to
use printable materials which accompany the lesson, or instruct the teacher how to
operate interactive elements. The lesson notes are critical to the success of the
lesson, as they give direction and meaning to each lesson screen.
QUAVER LESSONS: COMPONENTS AND AUDIENCE
3. Printable Materials. Most lessons have accompanying printable materials which
the teacher may choose to print and distribute during class. These may include
worksheets, music scores, lyric sheets, crafts, or other manipulatives. Depending on
the printable material, it may have a different target audience. For example, a worksheet will probably be distributed by the teacher to be completed by the students.
But, a music score is just as likely to be used by a teacher as well as a student.
Together these three lesson components comprise our complete general music curriculum. For
example, since the lesson notes alone are not sufficient to teach the material, but do contain the
subjects and methods of instruction, the lesson notes must be used in conjunction with the lesson
screen (as it would be in a classroom setting) to fully assess fulfillment of state standards.
Each Lesson includes resources for Teachers & Students
Because of the nature of delivery of this program described above, any of these components are just
as important for the teacher to teach as they are for the student to learn and demonstrate that knowledge. Since the teacher is the registered user of the account capable of accessing the content, all our
program content is housed together for teacher access regardless of the intended audience. This,
taken with the dual audience of each lesson component, describes why our lessons serve as both the
teacher narrative and the student narrative.
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