Utah has now implemented mandatory SLO's for every teacher, and I have been working on my Student Learning Goals and pre-assessments. I have to choose 2 learning goals to complete with my students this year. For my first one, I am going to do the same goal that I did last year - the rhythm SLO for a beginning class. It worked well for me last year and it was pretty easy to execute. I wrote a post about it HERE and posted the final assessment HERE. For my 2nd SLO, I will be teaching shifting. As my students get more advanced, I really want them to be comfortable in other positions so that we can explore more difficult repertoire. I have already started teaching my 2nd year students how to shift, and so far it is going great - they are doing so well! I used to be afraid to teach shifting in a classroom setting because of scary intonation, but I have found some ways to teach shifting to make it very non-threatening and easy...but this post is about my SLO - so maybe more on that later. I just created a pre-assessment for a shifting SLO. You can purchase and download the 9 page file HERE - but here are some sample pages if you just want to get some ideas:
