(And a GPT Agent for aligning the new Content Points!)
I wrote this unit of work in 2021 when YouTube creator-producer Andrew Huang released his fantastically simple (yet still pretty powerful) Flip Sampler. I’ve already shared that original Unit of Work and some supporting resources here.
It’s worth noting that the app now also works on Android devices! Today I’m sharing an updated version of that Unit of Work, now aligned with the new NSW Music 7-10 Syllabus.
As I mentioned in my post last week about the updated Unit of Work Planners, our aim is to teach music musically, and then work out how we’ve met the Content Points that are included in the new syllabus – this way, NESA’s compliance busywork doesn’t lead good music curriculum development. You’ll see that my Unit of Work and lesson plans give a number to those Content Points (each document has an Appendix), which I can then list easily, rather than having those repeated sentences take up space. It seems clear to me that 80-90% of these content points are things that good music teachers meet in most units they run. It might, therefore, be necessary to have a special unit toward the end of Stage 4 to meet the more unusual ones – but I’m thinking about this!
In the meantime, I’ve tried to make the “checking off” easier by developing a GPT agent that can do this work for you. You simply copy and paste sections of your lesson plans or units of work into the model and it does the alignment for you.
Here’s a short view of me pasting in the start of the this unit of work into it.
I’ll be sharing an updated version of my Musical Cryptography unit here soon, too! I also plan, later in the year (as we release more singles from the album) to release a new Unit of Work based on my intercultural acoustic-poetry-Hip-Hop work, Αγάπη (Agapi) and Other Kinds of Love.
