For Immediate Release:   December 7, 2011

  

BPS Music Teacher Selected to Serve on
RTTT Performing Fine Arts Assessment Project

MERRITT ISLAND, FLORIDA – William Yoh, music teacher from Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School of the Arts, has been invited to serve on the Race to the Top (RTTT) Performing Fine Arts Assessment Project as part of the writing team. The team will actively engage in developing test questions for the upcoming student assessment for music education in Florida.

An educator for 26 years, Yoh directs general music classes, chorus, an 80 member string orchestra, and a 120 piece concert band at Stevenson.  He is the facilitator of the Stevenson Writing Cadre and developed the action plan to address the school’s writing initiatives, aligning them with county and statewide standards and mandates with other members of the committee along with administration. Yoh has written a variety of music education articles and has been published in the Florida Music Director, South Carolina Musician, Nevada Notes, Idaho Music Notes, Illinois Music Educator, Massachusetts Music News, Iowa Music Educator, BANDWORLD, the Windjammers Circus Fanfare and the Music Educator National Conference publication of a “Spotlight in Teaching Chorus.” He has been teaching at Stevenson since 2000.

Stevenson principal, Michael Corneau said, “Mr. Yoh is a good man as well as a very fine music teacher who will serve well on this Steering Task Force.”

Qualifications for Writers and Reviewers of the RTTT Performing Arts Assessment Project include:

  • Three years of classroom teaching experience- minimum
  • Experience in curriculum writing at the local, district or state level
  • Experience in assessment development at the local, district or state level
  • Membership in one of these professional organizations (FATE, FDEO, FMEA)
  • Knowledge of Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) in dance, music theatre
  • Letter of support from the school principal or immediate supervisor

Yoh will participate in a two day training session in Lakeland on January 20 and 21to prepare for this innovation project that will enhance the importance and validity of the performing arts within Florida’s education system.

            For more information, please contact Michael Corneau at 321-454-3550.

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