Hints for a Successful AIM Experience
Revised 11/28/2011
It really helps if teachers:
- Pay registration fees
- Send the Enrollment Fee Form by the set deadline to the treasurer, Susan Lipnick, for theory and performance testing. $10.00 @ for levels 1 - 2, and $15.00 @ for levels 3 and up (levels 3 and up only pay once at theory registration).
- Sign up to judge and/or monitor
- Send the Teacher Judging Form by the set deadline to the appropriate person by the set deadline. Be sure to fill in the number of students you have enrolled, levels you prefer to judge, if you would prefer to be a monitor, and the potential dates and times you are able to judge.
- Register students
- Send the Student Enrollment Form to the appropriate person by the set deadline, with all information accurately filled out. The fewer changes there are, the smoother everything runs.
- Performance Repertoire
- Send the Repertoire Sheets for performance testing only to the appropriate person by the set deadline. Be specific and detailed as to the composition, composer, source, syllabus level, and page number. See the Sample Repertoire Sheets if you need more help.
- Judge
- We need all of the help we can get! Arriving at the judging site before the actual judging time begins really helps. Technology takes time, especially if there is new equipment (CD players for Aural exams). It also takes time to set up rooms for testing. Staying on time while judging is difficult, but important because students and parents get more nervous every minute they wait. Please read your schedules and notice the areas when more than one student are taking portions of their test “together.” Help students be more at ease by giving them some choices in the activity they would like to start (as long as you follow the printed schedule). If you are relaxed and cheerful, the student will do a better job on the exam.
- Give us feedback
- Tell us what you would like to see improved in AIM. Both the local and state chairmen need your input to help improve the AIM program for ISMTA.
It really helps if students:
- Are on time for exams
- Help them out with web sites and written directions:
- Bring all needed materials to exams
- They actually have to bring it into the building and not just have it in the car. Remind them to not have any photocopies (they are illegal).