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Steinberg Classroom Resource PackCreative Music Education with Cubase 4 & Cubase Studio 4Order the Classroom Resource Pack Online... The Steinberg Classroom Resource Pack (CRP) provides teachers with comprehensive resources for teaching music to 11-18 year olds in schools. It contains all the necessary elements for teachers to deliver a wide range of innovative, modern music lessons and uses Cubase Studio 4 or Cubase 4 as the technology platform.
(Click image to enlarge...) The Teacher Manual, 370 pages of detailed lesson plans and activities meticulously prepared for the teacher, is supported by two easy-to-navigate content DVD’s; one provides printable PDF worksheets and assessment materials in addition to video tutorials and other support materials, and the other DVD provides original music as multi-track Cubase projects, audio files, audio loops, MIDI files and video files intended for project work in the classroom.
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ConceptThe Steinberg Classroom Resource Pack has been created to help school teachers around the world to teach Music in the classroom using modern computer music technology. Typically the Music curriculum is based on the fundamental activities of performing, composing and listening, and schools around the world today adopt a traditional approach to the teaching and learning of these fundamental skills. Computer music technology is fast becoming an essential element of the 21st Century school music curriculum. It is itself a highly effective tool to nurture those same fundamental skills of performing, composing and listening but additionally provides the opportunity for learning discrete recording, sequencing and production skills. Students thereby study music with a contemporary perspective reflecting a real world technology context. This approach poses a significant challenge for many teachers. Unfamiliarity and lack of experience with the technologies, combined with a lack of time and resources to satisfactorily produce a scheme of work and range of lesson materials, are the biggest challenges. Additionally it is the time to think, the time to prepare, to create, or to produce classroom teaching materials that are precisely the resources that teachers simply do not have. And this is exactly what we give them with the Classroom Resource Pack! Therefore the Steinberg Classroom Resource Pack answers the needs of teachers the world over by giving them a huge range of pre-prepared learning activities which can be selected by the teacher and either used in part and inserted into their existing scheme of work, or used in its entirety to form the basis for a brand new programme of study. The CRP’s units of study or learning activities (or LA’s) are arranged into collective themes or topics called Projects and provided at graduated difficulty levels. These difficulty levels have been developed with the intention of teaching children between the ages of 11 to 18. The LA’s are however mainly focused towards the elementary to intermediate levels, allowing the teacher to draw upon the widest range of resources to satisfy the majority of students. Last, but not least, the Classroom Resource Pack is of course based on the integral use of Cubase 4 or Cubase Studio 4, arguably the most widespread, easy to use, and professional music composition and production software package available today. It is also one of the most commonly used applications in the study of music and music technology in education, and therefore provides both teacher and student the confidence of building a solid foundation with learning technical and practical skills which have real world value and longevity. Content
The DVD’s The Steinberg Classroom Resource Pack contains two DVD’s. Both have been custom made to run using the Director TM environment, which means that there is an easy-to-use graphical interface directing the user to simply and quickly find the files required.
The Steinberg Classroom Resource Pack Projects The CRP’s 11 units of study are called Projects. Project 1 provides students with the opportunity to gain an understanding of a range of the fundamental features and working practices of Cubase and/or Cubase Studio. Projects 2 – 11 focus on different aspects of music, with each designed to provide about 8-12 hours of classroom study. Each CRP Project with its own musical theme introduces a unique set of aims. These are clearly identified in the Project Overview at the start of each Project. The Project context is then outlined, allowing the teacher to understand more about how the Projects’ aims and Learning Activities might interact with other themes in a scheme of work. The prior Skills, Knowledge and Understanding required to undertake the Project work is also listed, allowing the teacher, and therefore the students also, to be fully prepared. Learning Outcomes then describes the result intended once all Learning Activities have been undertaken from the Project – an invaluable reference tool for the teacher. The Learning Activities (LA’s) Each CRP Project is divided into a number of individual elements called Learning Activities. Most Projects contain between 6 and 8 Learning Activities, most of which are intended to last between 1 and 2 classroom lessons (assuming each lesson has duration of approximately 45-50 minutes). There are 74 Learning Activities in total in the CRP, generating over 100 hours of classroom teaching time. Like the Projects, each LA has its own specific aims and learning outcomes - teachers may choose to select individual LA’s for inclusion into any desired scheme of work. It is not therefore a requirement for students to complete every Learning Activity within each Project of the CRP - the teacher may ‘mix’ any assortment of LA’s to ‘match’ any particular study requirements. This degree of flexibility is one of the key advantages of the CRP – since this makes it possible for the CRP to be integrated in teaching schemes anywhere in the world, in different curricula or syllabi, at various difficulty levels, and for any group (although we recommend optimal age range is 11-18 based on UK schools and education standards). The Learning Activities also allows for assessment of the students
work. Assessment types vary, but largely they can be practical (such
as assessing ‘the performance of a melody line’, or ‘the
ability to apply effects processing and audio manipulations as a creative
compositional tool’) which would be captured as evidence by submission
of the related Cubase project file. Or they can be written (such as
‘identifying the common interpretation markings found on a score’,
or ‘the ability to record mixer settings and production techniques
on a track sheet’) which would be captured as evidence by completion
of a CRP student worksheet. Homework can be set, tests are also available,
and there are some group assessments – but mainly the classroom
activities will lead to assessment activities for individual students
- largely of a practical nature, and often mixed with written completion
of student worksheets. And usefully most LA’s include a section
on Differentiation – which offers suggestions for ways to adapt
the activities either for more able or less able students that might
be in the class group.
Teacher Support Sheets DVD2 also contains a very large number of Teacher Support Sheets that provide background information about:
These sheets are to be used by the teacher in building up their understanding
of the themes introduced by the Projects, and thereby support the teacher
in their own activities. Steinberg Classroom Resource Pack - Minimum System Requirements:The minimum system requirements state the minimal specification your computer must have to be able to use the Steinberg Classroom Resource Pack. A more powerful system may be required for certain tasks or larger projects. Mac:CRP
Cubase 4.1 Requirements
PC:CRP
Cubase 4.1 Requirements
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