Music Introduction

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Music

The BPSS (MUS) Music Standards course in Learnbps is Bismarck Public School District's current progress on prioritizing and deconstructing standards to provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn. The standards are designed to provide guidance so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help students. Plus help students reflect on the knowledge and skills that they need for success.

K-8
General Music

Performing
Ensembles

Artistic
Processes

Identifier Explanation

MUS-03.Pr.04.2.3b

The Bismarck Public School District Standards-Based Progress Report displays grades at the Strand level. Therefore Bismarck Public School District has modified the North Dakota DPI Identifiers to fit into our student information system PowerSchool for Standards-Based grading. Above is a BPS-Standards MUS identifier with smaller muted text showing the addition  to the identifier that are the components that BPS adds to the State code. Note: the biggest difference is the shift of the grade level at the end of the state identifier to after MUS-0.

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MUS-03.Pr.04.2b

Subject

Music
The North Dakota Music Standards (MUS)
Content Standards provide a rigorous and content
appropriate framework for instruction to increase
student achievement.

Grade Level

3rd Grade
The grade levels address what students should know
and be able to do in the area of music
by the end of grades K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
and MS (6, 7, 8) and HS (9-10)(11-12).

Artistic Process

describe the most essential ideas (content) of the
performance standards that students will understand.
  • Cr: Creating
  • Pr: Performing
  • Re: Responding
  • Co: Connecting

Anchor Standard . Outcome

A statement of what students should know
and be able to do at specified grade levels.

click on the identifier components for more explanations

MUS-03.Pr.04.2b When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and melodic phrases using iconic and standard notation. 
Note how the identifiers auto-link to the standards global glossaries.

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MU:Pr4.2.3 (b)

Subject

Music
The North Dakota Music Standards (MU:)
Content Standards provide a rigorous and content
appropriate framework for instruction to increase
student achievement.

Artistic Process

describe the most essential ideas (content) of the
performance standards that students will understand.
  • Cr: Creating
  • Pr: Performing
  • Re: Responding
  • Co: Connecting

Anchor Standard . Outcome

A statement of what students should know
and be able to do at specified grade levels.

Grade Level

3rd Grade
The grade levels address what students should know
and be able to do in the area of music
by the end of grades K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
and MS (6, 7, 8) and HS (9-10)(11-12).

click on the identifier components for more explanations

State individual grade-specific standards can be identified by their subject, process, then anchor standard, outcome and grade level, so that MU:Pr4.2.3 (b) for example, stands for Music Preforming Process and Anchor Standard 4 outcome 2b for grade 3.