Assignment 2

1. From my understanding psychomotor is a type learning, which deals with mental process which then tells and controls muscular activity. This is a every important type of learning that needs to be repeated over and over again as the child grows. One of the main examples of this is the welcome name game that we play each and everyday. We are given a beat and then we have to do it back making it a warm up game. Children also will not see this as a task but more of a game.

2. Then there is cognitive learning, which deals with the knowledge that the child has. The only problem with this is in the classroom you have many different students that don’t have the same knowledge as other students. One example of this was when we were in class and we took the little song we learned and put lines to mark the notes and then later moved to putting them with notes and their value of the note.

3. Lastly there is a type of learning, which is called affective learning. This type of learning is very hard to teach students because this deals with the feeling of songs and being able to understand the tone composed in the song and why the composer did that. One of the ways that I believe you could do this is by having the kids listen to many different songs and have them tell the feelings that have after listening to the songs.

4. The teacher-centered form of teaching is when the teacher stands in the front of the class and tells all the students the information that they are going to need to know. An example of this is having the teacher do a power point with the information and going over it in front of the students while they take notes. Then there is the type called child-centered approach. This is where the teacher gives the students a problem and they have to solve it by what they know. An example is giving students songs having then sing it and clap out the beats. Then have them write out what the notes would be and which ones would get the emphasis.

5. The one way that I feel I have always learned the best is like a psychomotor approach. I understand everything when someone explain s something to me and then I have to do it back to the teacher. This is like a trail and error, having me find out what it is that I have to do and how I need to fix it.

All About Me

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My name is Natalie Lynn Grote. My birthday is August 22, 1990. I am the oldest of four children there is Courtney(16), Ashley(13), and Austin(11). Then there is my father Randy who was married to my mother Donna for 19 years but last winter my mother past away for cancer. We are a very loving and caring family that loves going things together. I am a very outgoing and carefree person. The one friend that everyone one in my group of friends is able to talk to and trust me with anything. I love my sports!!!!! I am a huge White Sox Fan and Bears Fan. The best time for me is helping coach my brothers baseball team with my dad. Other things that I like to do in my spare time is go running. I have been doing many different races for helping people that are fighting or have lost their life do to cancer. I also love to singing. I have been singing since I was in the first grade when I reached high school I was voice tested to be in the highest group that they had. I later tried out and made the all women singing group. I believe that with music it has made me into a very strong and independent person. I am now able to get up in front of large numbers of people and talk with no problem. I believe that it is very important for childern to have music because this is another way for them to express themselfs.