ILTS Music (212) case studies
ILTS Music (212) · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Music (212) is one of the content-area tests in the Illinois Licensure Testing System (ILTS), the testing program used in Illinois for educator licensure. Candidates who need a music endorsement take it; the official ILTS test list simply names it "Music (212)" and does not publish a candidate profile, so check the ISBE "What tests do I need to take?" guidance for your own licensure path rather than assuming this single test completes it. The ILTS Music (212) case studies are 5 cases and about 4,881 words.
1Reassigning a Tenor Line Seven Weeks Before Festival
Riverside Middle School's eighth-grade mixed chorus has 54 singers and seven rehearsals - 45 minutes each, twice weekly - before the district choral festival. The festival rubric weights tone at 30 percent, intonation at 25 percent, literature and technique at 25 percent, and sight-reading at 20 percent, and each ensemble performs two contrasting selections within an eight-minute window.
960 words, about 5 min2Instrument Placement, Percussion Rotation, and a 504 Plan in Beginning Band
Fairview Elementary's fifth-grade beginning band has 46 students. It meets as a full group for 40 minutes once a week in the gymnasium and in one 30-minute pull-out lesson per week scheduled during the classroom science block; the science teacher has complained that the pull-out falls on the day before the state science test.
1,034 words, about 5 min3Building a Defensible Pre/Post Assessment in a Rotation Schedule
Okafor teaches K-5 general music in two buildings: 620 students, 45-minute classes on a six-day rotation, so she meets each class about 24 times a year. Her principal has asked every special-area teacher to submit a student learning objective with pre- and post-assessment data by the end of the second quarter, which gives six class meetings per section.
983 words, about 5 min4Four Copyright Requests at One Winter Concert
Northgate High School's combined winter concert is nine weeks away and involves 78 chorus students and 52 band students. At the booster meeting, four proposals surface.
953 words, about 5 min5A Pass-Off System That Cannot Scale
Alvarez teaches four sections of Guitar I; each section has 30 students, meets daily for 50 minutes, and runs the full 18-week semester. The department inventory holds 24 playable guitars; six have broken tuners or missing strings and one has a warped neck.
951 words, about 5 min