Music+History+Quiz+Bowl

Name: Ross Thoendel

Subject: Advanced Music Theory

Concepts/Skills/Values: Active Reviewing

In our advanced theory class I had been teaching a unit on music history and having the 9 students in the class take notes. One day I we had a review, but I decided to make it student-led and had all who were at class that day come up with 4 review questions about the material. Then I told them that we would be having a quiz bowl type competition using their review questions. Each student would ask their four questions, and whoever correctly answered got a point. If no one could correctly answer, the person who asked would receive a point (I don't think the latter part of this system would work if students were aware their questions were being used for competition as they came up with them, the questions would become too obscure and not particularly useful). In the theme of quiz bowl, I tried to stop the questioner the moment I saw a hand raised. (I also encourage having a trustworthy student help with the spotting) While it is encouraged that everyone has their notes out, next time I would make a time limit of 3-5 seconds or so to start answering the question once a hand is raised. Most of the students seemed to have a lot of fun with it, and thought it was a nice change of pace from taking notes.