Student Learning Guides Booklets
by Duane S. Crowther
a product of HORIZON PUBLISHERS & DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
Review
In response to numerous requests from teacher across the country, a series of four inexpensive student manuals has been prepared, one for each of the four units of the instruction course. These manuals, prepared in workbook format, are titled Choral Concepts-Student Learning Guide, Units 1, 2, 3 and 4. The saddle-stitched manuals are the size of octavo music so students can keep them in music folders with their performance music. Each lesson requires limited written participation by the student: filling in blanks on worksheets, recording materials written on the blackboard or shown on an overhead projector, etc. Care has been taken to keep student time requirements for each lesson short, maintaining the objective of completion of every lesson in 20 minutes or less.
Binding the lessons for each unit separately, with a new workbook issued at approximately the beginning of each 9-week period, eliminates problems such as student rejection of a formidable looking year-long workbook; daily storage problems caused by bulky workbooks for large numbers of students; and a student being left without a workbook for most of the year if his manual is lost.
The booklets cost about the same as comparable sized octavo music, holding the cost-per- student allocation to a reasonable level. But the workbooks contain so much valuable information that students will treasure them-you won't find any of them left at school at the end of the term. That's certain!
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