Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Journal 5
This last half of the class there was not too much stuff that we learned. Instead we were working on all the skills that we have learned and using them to show the information that we have gained. In doing the final projected it showed how teachers can take one topic and do many different things but do it in a way in which everything is connected. Learning extra about our own country helped to get to know more about composer and different things that we really didn’t go over this year in class. One thing that we did learn was about students and their self-esteem and how music can help students that may be having self-esteem issues. There was a lot about the cognitive effect that comes with teaching music in your everyday classroom which can help the students when they would like to express themselves. Also in the article was information about the different motors skills that can be gained from having music help teach students different things.
For the self-esteem article the way in which we learned the information is by reading the information. Once we were done reading the article then there were follow up questions which helped to understand the important information in the article. For the final project it used a lot of different skills that we have learned this semester things like reading out of the book about different lesson plans, having to be taught how to use different lesson plans, watching others and seeing their ideas about their own lesson plans that they came up with earlier in the year.
This is one of the most important things that we learned from this class was the lesson planning. As we become teachers we will be writing lesson plans for years to come. Also with the article learning more about the way in which children think will help in the long run when dealing with students. We need to understand as teachers that each and every student will be different. So this means that when teaching the things that we do will have to be done in a way in which most students will benefit the most from.
For the students they will not really be learning direct the last things that we were taught but this will help them learn because as teacher our classroom will flow easy due to the fact that we have plan on what is going to be learned. Also understand what some kids go through when something new is introduced that they don’t get.
I didn’t really come across big problems but I believe that making lesson plans is something that I will get better at as I get farther in my teaching. Also being able to understand a child is hard so the more things that I know about when working with children will help me to better the education of my students there for making them learn more.
E-Portfolio for Blog
1. I found it very easy for this class to use blogger. I really liked the fact that there was no printing before class or having to remember the assignment for class. As if you were having a hard time it was very easy to talk with others in our class. Also, when we were having problem putting the assignment up or needed examples there was always helpful things up on your blog which we could use to get the assignment done. Once the assignment was up on blogger we were able to feedback right on that assignment.
2. Although using blogger was nice there was something that was not as useful. I really like to see my grades fast so I can see how I am doing but the grads where not always put up right away for the stuff that we have done. Also we always needed the computer to do the assignments. Then there was the fact of the unseen things like the internet was not working or that blogger was running really slow and not letting me up load the things that I needed to. Sometimes I wonder about how easy it is to look at others stuff that people could not be putting in the time and just looking at others blogs and using their information.
3. Overall, I think that using blogger was a way in which it made everyone life easier. There was no way anyone could lose a paper or have it be missed place and then not get a grade for it. There was always extra time that we got to do the assignments. Most of the time that meant that we had class before the assignment was due so there was another reminder that we needed to make sure that we finish our assignment. Everything over this class is also in one place nice and organized so we could see everything that we have worked so hard to do.
For the self-esteem article the way in which we learned the information is by reading the information. Once we were done reading the article then there were follow up questions which helped to understand the important information in the article. For the final project it used a lot of different skills that we have learned this semester things like reading out of the book about different lesson plans, having to be taught how to use different lesson plans, watching others and seeing their ideas about their own lesson plans that they came up with earlier in the year.
This is one of the most important things that we learned from this class was the lesson planning. As we become teachers we will be writing lesson plans for years to come. Also with the article learning more about the way in which children think will help in the long run when dealing with students. We need to understand as teachers that each and every student will be different. So this means that when teaching the things that we do will have to be done in a way in which most students will benefit the most from.
For the students they will not really be learning direct the last things that we were taught but this will help them learn because as teacher our classroom will flow easy due to the fact that we have plan on what is going to be learned. Also understand what some kids go through when something new is introduced that they don’t get.
I didn’t really come across big problems but I believe that making lesson plans is something that I will get better at as I get farther in my teaching. Also being able to understand a child is hard so the more things that I know about when working with children will help me to better the education of my students there for making them learn more.
E-Portfolio for Blog
1. I found it very easy for this class to use blogger. I really liked the fact that there was no printing before class or having to remember the assignment for class. As if you were having a hard time it was very easy to talk with others in our class. Also, when we were having problem putting the assignment up or needed examples there was always helpful things up on your blog which we could use to get the assignment done. Once the assignment was up on blogger we were able to feedback right on that assignment.
2. Although using blogger was nice there was something that was not as useful. I really like to see my grades fast so I can see how I am doing but the grads where not always put up right away for the stuff that we have done. Also we always needed the computer to do the assignments. Then there was the fact of the unseen things like the internet was not working or that blogger was running really slow and not letting me up load the things that I needed to. Sometimes I wonder about how easy it is to look at others stuff that people could not be putting in the time and just looking at others blogs and using their information.
3. Overall, I think that using blogger was a way in which it made everyone life easier. There was no way anyone could lose a paper or have it be missed place and then not get a grade for it. There was always extra time that we got to do the assignments. Most of the time that meant that we had class before the assignment was due so there was another reminder that we needed to make sure that we finish our assignment. Everything over this class is also in one place nice and organized so we could see everything that we have worked so hard to do.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Assignment 10
Natalie Grote
Assignment#10
Reading reflection
Title of the article: Self-Esteem A Byproduct of Quality Classroom Music
1.According to the author, what are the possible cognitive benefits of music in early childhood education?
The author states that the cognitive benefits of music are “helping children acquire vocabulary, symbolic understanding, a sense of sequence, memory, and auditory training”.
2.What are some important activities classroom teachers should be aware of in order to enhance young children’s self-esteem?
Some of the things that the teachers should be aware of in order to enhance young children’s self-esteem are “Problem-solving skills, offer instruction about social behaviors, display positive guidance techniques, teach self-management strategies, and encourage children’s self-selected interests”.
3. How so (according to the author) development of gross-motor skills and find-motor skills in musical activities can help enhance children’s self-esteem?
In this article it states that “Children who have difficulty expressing themselves orally or who refuse to participate in art experiences may discover that they enjoy the physical and emotional aspects of musical activity”.
4. What are the guidelines for early childhood educators to implement music program in their classroom?
Some of the guidelines for early children educators to implement music programs in their classroom are doing things like select music for preschoolers that will help them fell successful, include movement activities in the music program, use children’s names whenever possible, use musical terms to enhance concept development, and incorporate a variety of music into the classroom.
Assignment#10
Reading reflection
Title of the article: Self-Esteem A Byproduct of Quality Classroom Music
1.According to the author, what are the possible cognitive benefits of music in early childhood education?
The author states that the cognitive benefits of music are “helping children acquire vocabulary, symbolic understanding, a sense of sequence, memory, and auditory training”.
2.What are some important activities classroom teachers should be aware of in order to enhance young children’s self-esteem?
Some of the things that the teachers should be aware of in order to enhance young children’s self-esteem are “Problem-solving skills, offer instruction about social behaviors, display positive guidance techniques, teach self-management strategies, and encourage children’s self-selected interests”.
3. How so (according to the author) development of gross-motor skills and find-motor skills in musical activities can help enhance children’s self-esteem?
In this article it states that “Children who have difficulty expressing themselves orally or who refuse to participate in art experiences may discover that they enjoy the physical and emotional aspects of musical activity”.
4. What are the guidelines for early childhood educators to implement music program in their classroom?
Some of the guidelines for early children educators to implement music programs in their classroom are doing things like select music for preschoolers that will help them fell successful, include movement activities in the music program, use children’s names whenever possible, use musical terms to enhance concept development, and incorporate a variety of music into the classroom.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Journal 4
In this unit we looked at and learned about a lot of different things. Some of the things that we learned these passed weeks are what program music is. I understand Program Music is a type of art where the composer uses the words and sounds to help the listener image what is happening. This is mainly from the Romantic Period of the 19th century. There are many great examples of different types of Program Music. The other main topic that we learned about is Binary Form and Round Form. First, we learned about binary form. When you talk about binary form we represent them with letters AB. This means that there is a first and second section to the song. In a Round Form this means ABACADA so there can be a lot of different parts. Even thought, there are a lot of different parts there will always be one part that keeps coming back and that is the A section of the song this part of the song is known as the chorus.
We learned about Program music mainly by reading a packet that was given out in class. In this packet there was a list of songs with the name of their composer to give us some examples of the different songs from this period. We all have listen binary once in life because that is what makes up all the different pop songs that are out there. This makes it very easy to catch on to the song and be able to sing it over and over again. Playing many examples was one of the easiest ways to learn but for round form we work on one song with had a dance that went along with all the different parts. Then we took that same song and we each got different cards that went to different part of the song and when our part came along we held up our sign.
I believe that it is an important part of using music is to know the history of where it came from. One way you could use it outside of just teaching music would be to play some samples for kids while you are talking about the different centuries. I have already learned about these different forms of music in a music class that I took before but listening to different songs helped me to heard different music that I may have not heard yet.
This unit is taught to elementary level because this gives them a base for the music knowledge to grow. It may be the one form of music a children may like so by exposing them to this form of music. I could see this as being a very hard thing to teach to elementary but understanding this could be a lot easier by having one group of kids make one noise and another make one and have them play it one and then the other so that they would be able to understand the forms.
There was not that many problems that came along with the stuff that we had been learning this week. I think it would have been a little more interesting to talk more about the time period and to understand this music in a deeper level. I think for others in the class this was the first time knowing what they were hearing is in a pattern like that but once that understood that everything was very easy.
We learned about Program music mainly by reading a packet that was given out in class. In this packet there was a list of songs with the name of their composer to give us some examples of the different songs from this period. We all have listen binary once in life because that is what makes up all the different pop songs that are out there. This makes it very easy to catch on to the song and be able to sing it over and over again. Playing many examples was one of the easiest ways to learn but for round form we work on one song with had a dance that went along with all the different parts. Then we took that same song and we each got different cards that went to different part of the song and when our part came along we held up our sign.
I believe that it is an important part of using music is to know the history of where it came from. One way you could use it outside of just teaching music would be to play some samples for kids while you are talking about the different centuries. I have already learned about these different forms of music in a music class that I took before but listening to different songs helped me to heard different music that I may have not heard yet.
This unit is taught to elementary level because this gives them a base for the music knowledge to grow. It may be the one form of music a children may like so by exposing them to this form of music. I could see this as being a very hard thing to teach to elementary but understanding this could be a lot easier by having one group of kids make one noise and another make one and have them play it one and then the other so that they would be able to understand the forms.
There was not that many problems that came along with the stuff that we had been learning this week. I think it would have been a little more interesting to talk more about the time period and to understand this music in a deeper level. I think for others in the class this was the first time knowing what they were hearing is in a pattern like that but once that understood that everything was very easy.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Assignment 9
1. In the textbook there was a list of ideas to help teachers come up with ideas for how students learn music through rhythmic bodily response activities.
• Encourage the child’s natural inclination to move.
• Encourage the natural use of speech, gesture, and body language to express thoughts and emotions.
• Pay attention to children’s individual response. Sometimes a child’s response is so imaginative that it is worth having the whole class try it.
• Allow children freedom and opportunities to express music with their bodies in spontaneous ways.
• Encourage the completion of structured tasks that will, in turn, result in musical learning.
• Choose music for rhythm activities that causes children to respond instinctively.
o Some things that this could include is like doing the chicken dance while learning the song
• Identify elements, concepts, or other aspects of music that children should experience
o Working something over and over again so that the children learn it
• Allow children to explore and find ways to “live” particular elements of the music in movement
o Something you could do is work on scale by moving up and down them on different instruments
• Encourage the use of various levels of energy (dynamics) and timing in movement, speech, and gesture
o Making them talk loud and soft in different parts of the story
2.A locomotor skill is when the child is apply to move from place to another. Where as a nonlocomotor skill is when the child moves their body in a stationary position.
3.In the textbook, it talks about the four different stages in children’s developing body awareness. They are movement as an expression of problem solving, movement as an expression of imagery, movement with no external beat, and movement to a beat with a sense of timing.
4.Some of the different musical concepts that can be taught to the children are beat/meter, fast, slow, getting faster, getting slower, accents, dynamics, rhythmic patterns, and melodic contour.
5.One of the things that they talk about in the textbook is the musical concept of dynamics. This is very important in all types of music otherwise the piece that was being preformed would lose the children’s attention. One of the lesson plans that is used in the book talks but using the song “Frosty the Snowman”. Making sure that while the song is playing point out that it gets softer when they are talking about the part when the snowman is melting. Another thing is have the students draw a big circle and a small circle, then whenever the music is loud have them hold up the big circle and whenever the music is soft have them hold up the little circle that they have made.
• Encourage the child’s natural inclination to move.
• Encourage the natural use of speech, gesture, and body language to express thoughts and emotions.
• Pay attention to children’s individual response. Sometimes a child’s response is so imaginative that it is worth having the whole class try it.
• Allow children freedom and opportunities to express music with their bodies in spontaneous ways.
• Encourage the completion of structured tasks that will, in turn, result in musical learning.
• Choose music for rhythm activities that causes children to respond instinctively.
o Some things that this could include is like doing the chicken dance while learning the song
• Identify elements, concepts, or other aspects of music that children should experience
o Working something over and over again so that the children learn it
• Allow children to explore and find ways to “live” particular elements of the music in movement
o Something you could do is work on scale by moving up and down them on different instruments
• Encourage the use of various levels of energy (dynamics) and timing in movement, speech, and gesture
o Making them talk loud and soft in different parts of the story
2.A locomotor skill is when the child is apply to move from place to another. Where as a nonlocomotor skill is when the child moves their body in a stationary position.
3.In the textbook, it talks about the four different stages in children’s developing body awareness. They are movement as an expression of problem solving, movement as an expression of imagery, movement with no external beat, and movement to a beat with a sense of timing.
4.Some of the different musical concepts that can be taught to the children are beat/meter, fast, slow, getting faster, getting slower, accents, dynamics, rhythmic patterns, and melodic contour.
5.One of the things that they talk about in the textbook is the musical concept of dynamics. This is very important in all types of music otherwise the piece that was being preformed would lose the children’s attention. One of the lesson plans that is used in the book talks but using the song “Frosty the Snowman”. Making sure that while the song is playing point out that it gets softer when they are talking about the part when the snowman is melting. Another thing is have the students draw a big circle and a small circle, then whenever the music is loud have them hold up the big circle and whenever the music is soft have them hold up the little circle that they have made.
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