Choir · Week 20 · Musicianship and Rehearsal
Performance Anxiety Toolkit
Students build a personal toolkit of breathing, focus, and self-talk strategies for performance nerves and test one in a mock performance.
- Students will
- Students choose breathing, focus, and self-talk strategies, apply one while performing a short phrase for a small group, and judge how it affected their singing.
- SEL skill
- Choose and test a calming strategy before performing
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-management by choosing and testing a strategy for performance nerves.
- Content focus
- Performance anxiety toolkit with a mock performance
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management is guiding your emotions and actions in healthy ways so you can reach your goals. More self-management activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- MU:Pr6.1.E.HSI: Music, Ensembles, Performing, Presenting, or Producing, Anchor Standard 6 (Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Performing, Presenting, or Producing
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-management activities for Choir
- Breath and Calm Self-managementStudents practice low, supported breathing for singing and use the same breath to settle nerves.
- Singing Alone Is Brave Self-managementStudents share a short improvised phrase in a small group and reflect on the courage it takes to be heard.
- Mistakes in Rehearsal Self-managementStudents treat wrong notes as information, identify one tricky passage, and choose a strategy to fix it.
- Reading Music and Confidence Self-managementStudents practice sight reading in short daily steps and track how their confidence grows.
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