Journal 12

This week in Musc 373 was a fun week as well!  Although, we did not do a whole lot on learning, besides watching the rest of the groups perform their lesson plans and possibly gain ideas for future lesson plans by watching them.  The Social Studies group I was in went again for extra credit.  Then today we did a lesson based off of tempo and dynamics and teaching kids with movement involved.  This sums up what I did this week in our class.

Watching lesson plans which were pretty much views put together by everyone in the class helped imparting ideas into my mind in how things she be done in the case I had to teach a lesson plan like this someday.  I learned it is better before you start reading the story to the students, to summarize what is about to be told so they can have an idea of what to listen for.  Also, I learned 

I learned to not make things more complicated by giving too many worksheets for the children, especially if they are around 2nd grade or lower or else it would be too much information for the students and probably wouldn't learn anything in the end.  Then we learned today about how to implement teaching dynamics and tempo by having everyone sitting in a circle and passing a ball left or right and then changing directions when they notice a difference in the speed of the words or the loudness/softness of the words.  At the same time, doing that, they learn to pay attention to the music more and develop skills involving listening.  This is basically what was imparted into my mind from this week's class.

It is important for me to learn this information so I can be able to think more outside the box when teaching materials.  It is important for children to learn this at a young age so they can develop skills earlier and quicker, especially with the activity that we did today in class, it really helps with paying attention better!