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Band Grading Rubric – Saugerties Junior/Senior High School
Excellent/Meets or exceeds expectations
100 – 90 points
Good/Minimum expectations
89 – 80 points
Fair/Below expectations
79 – 65 points
Poor/Unsatisfactory
64 points and Under
Rotation Attendance and Preparedness
40% (50%)
· Student attends all lessons or provides denied rotation passes for all missed lessons.
· Student makes up missed lessons.
· Student can perform lesson assignments with few, if any, errors.
· Student takes private study and/or performs in extra curricular music groups.
· Student attends most lessons or provides documentation as to why they couldn’t attend.
· Some missed lessons are made up.
· Student is able to play lesson material with a relatively high degree of accuracy.
· Student attends some lessons, or provides denied passes for some lessons.
· Student rarely attends extra help or lesson make up sessions.
· Instrument rarely goes home for home practice.
· Lesson assignments are not learned, demonstrating a lack of home practice.
· Student rarely attends lessons or provides denied rotation passes.
· Student does not attend make up lessons or stay for extra help. Therefore, student has not worked on lesson material which is different from the band literature.
· Instrument never leaves school and no home practice occurs.
Band Rehearsal and Preparedness, Classroom Rules and Conduct/Participation
20% (30%)
· Student is actively participating in rehearsal; has instrument in good working order with all necessary supplies; has music in order, on the stand; has pencil and uses it upon first direction; follows verbal and visual cues.
· Student can successfully demonstrate mastery, or shows rapidly developing progress, of music.
· Student is on time to class and obeys classroom rules.
· Most of the time the student is actively engaged in rehearsal, seldom talking or distracting others.
· Most often the student is adequately prepared with their instrument & supplies, pencil, and music ready.
· Student demonstrates steady progress in mastery of music.
· Most of the time, the student is punctual to class and follows classroom rules.
· Sometimes the student is not prepared for class; instrument is missing or nonfunctioning, missing supplies, lack of pencil or refuses to use it, missing music or is slow to replace music.
· Student is not giving full attention to watching and following director.
· Student is slow to learn band music.
· Student is often slow to arrive and unpack for class, and often needs reminders about classroom rules.
· Often the student is not prepared for class: missing instrument or instrument or instrument case in long need of repair, lacks necessary supplies, is missing music and does not bother to replace it.
· Student is inattentive in class: talking, distracting others, missing entrances, missing cut-offs, or “faking it”.
· Student consistently misses notes and rhythms, and does nothing to correct those mistakes. Just showing up for band rehearsal won’t cut it!
· Often student does not follow classroom rules.
Performance Attendance or Mandatory Rehearsal Attendance and Preparedness 20% (0%)
· Student attends all scheduled performances and rehearsals.
· Student is warmed up and ready to play at “call time”, is dressed in proper attire, is ready to go!
· Always displays proper stage decorum.
· Student attends all scheduled performances and rehearsals.
· Student may not be fully ready to play at “call time”, may enter slightly late or is talking and distracting others, can’t locate music.
· Stage decorum may need improvement.
· Student attends all scheduled performances and rehearsals.
· Student is extremely late, is dressed inappropriately, or behaves inappropriately while on stage or off stage.
· Student does not attend performance or mandatory rehearsal.
· Student does not provide advanced warning to teacher or provide a legitimate written excuse.
Evaluations, Written or Performed
20% (20%)
· Student demonstrates command of material by making few, or no, errors.
· Student takes test in a timely fashion (keeps their appointment, or reschedules promptly).
· Student demonstrates adequate preparation by making relatively few errors.
· Student takes test in a timely fashion (keeps their appointment or reschedules promptly).
· Insufficient preparedness results in numerous errors.
· Student avoids taking test by missing appointments, rescheduling only under duress.
· Student demonstrates lack of preparation by committing a large number of errors.
· Student avoids taking the examination altogether.
Percentage in parenthesis refers to marking periods lacking a major performance.
MT 6/15/10