Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Teaching Hey Betty Martin
Muscianship - 4
I didn't stay in my head voice while singing everytime.
Leadership - 10
Everything was great!
Preparation - 14
I didn't address the fact that that there were two different endings. I also didn't fore that we sing the correct notes.
Delivery - 20
Great energy throughout. If my lesson was really taught to 1st graders they would have really enjoyed it.
Total - 48
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Presentations are over!
Some may say that the worst is over, but for me I think this week was just the beginning. This week we had to present our lessons to our fellow classmates. After turning in our lesson plan I was slighty axious to present. One reason being, becuase I wanted to get it over with, and the other reason was because I wanted to see my work come to life! On the first day I must say that I was nervous, for a fear that I might have had to present on the first day. After the first day of presentations I wasn't nervous anymore because I had gotten a chance to see how others put their lessons together.
I ended up presenting on the last day which was good and bad. It was good because I had the whole week to prepare, and bad because it built too much anticipation for me to handle almost. When I look at the evaluation sheet, my musicianship was okay, if i had to give it a score Iwould say 4 becuase when I first began singing the song, I had the right notes, but towards the middle and end of the several times that I had to sing the song, I wasn't always singin the right notes. My leadership was great! I had good intensity, and I knew when to get loud and soft so that I didn't scare them. There was hardly any flaw in my preparations so in that part, I give myself all 15 points. As soon as I began to "teach" everything flowed as planned. It felt like my lesson plan was memorized. For the delivery portion of the presentation I think I deserve a 17 because although everything went well and I had a lot of energy, direction, and focus, I think I may have been talking to fast.
The most difficult part of the whole thing was presenting to my peers becuase the grade level of my lesson plan was kindergarten/1st grade. And although my peers were suppose to act as if they were in those grades, it would have been better if I taught to real k-5/1st grade students. I wish that i could have been more mindful of the notes as the class and I sang so that way my musicianship could have been better. And I had a secong chance i wouldn't really change anything in my presentation for the simpla fact that I think i did very well.
I ended up presenting on the last day which was good and bad. It was good because I had the whole week to prepare, and bad because it built too much anticipation for me to handle almost. When I look at the evaluation sheet, my musicianship was okay, if i had to give it a score Iwould say 4 becuase when I first began singing the song, I had the right notes, but towards the middle and end of the several times that I had to sing the song, I wasn't always singin the right notes. My leadership was great! I had good intensity, and I knew when to get loud and soft so that I didn't scare them. There was hardly any flaw in my preparations so in that part, I give myself all 15 points. As soon as I began to "teach" everything flowed as planned. It felt like my lesson plan was memorized. For the delivery portion of the presentation I think I deserve a 17 because although everything went well and I had a lot of energy, direction, and focus, I think I may have been talking to fast.
The most difficult part of the whole thing was presenting to my peers becuase the grade level of my lesson plan was kindergarten/1st grade. And although my peers were suppose to act as if they were in those grades, it would have been better if I taught to real k-5/1st grade students. I wish that i could have been more mindful of the notes as the class and I sang so that way my musicianship could have been better. And I had a secong chance i wouldn't really change anything in my presentation for the simpla fact that I think i did very well.
I know its a little late, but journal 5
So last week we talked about how to write out lesson plans. We were told to be specific as possible, addressing every step we took in our lesson. I also found out that we shouldn't consider our students as materials since they are the ones we are giving the lesson to, they aren't considered materials. In this lesson we had to pick a song either out of our music book or the music packet and teach it to the students. What was particularly difficult in this lesson plan was identifying the difference between a music an non-music concept and skill. After turning our rough draft lesson plan in, I found out what the difference was and now I'm able to identify the too. Now with presentations this week I'm excited to present but nervous at the same time, because I don't wanna mess up or miss parts of my lesson.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
My first lesson plan (journal 4)
This past week in MUSC 373 we began talking about preparing a lesson plan. I must say that I'm really excited. In the past I have created slight lesson plans where I would just give ideas to the teacher, but nothing major that I would have to later teach. When I read the intructions that don't appear to be difficult but when its actually time to put them together an formulate the lesson, sometimes the creative juices don't always flow. But for the most part I'm not worried about it. We also learned a new note for the recorder. Every new note we learn reminds me of a note from the clarinet fingering. It makes me think that learning how to play the recorder and then the clarinet are almost one in the same. Well I hope I get a good grade for my lesson plan.
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