v       Skillful music teaching is grounded in research.

v       Music education is a partnership—teachers with students and students with teachers.

v       Students possess individual learning styles and therefore learn music in diverse ways.

v       Teachers possess individual teaching styles and therefore present musical experiences in diverse ways.

v       Students have individual aptitudes and potentials in music.

v       Teachers have individual aptitudes and potentials in music.  These strengths are manifested in their teaching.

v       Students learn best when they solve problems, think critically, feel critically, act critically and construct meaning on their own.

v       Students remember when they learn independently and ground their learning in personal experience.

v       Students should become capable of learning on their own.  As a result of meaningful music instruction, students and their teachers should be able to engage verbally and musically in substantive conversation.