Journal #2

In this unit, we learned many different things that will help us for when we become teachers. One of the biggest things that we learned in this chapter was lesson planning. There is many different parts that go into lesson planning. For example there is National Standards that all teachers have to know, there is the concepts and skills that we will be teaching our students, there are the procedures that we will follow to make sure that when we are teaching something it is a nice and easy follow manner. Another thing that we learned in this unit was so history behind how music was written down and how it was taught to other so that they to would be able to read music.
We learned these things by a step by step procedure. For lesson planning everyone came up with there own lesson plan and they had to teach it to a group of their peers. This was the start of many things that we can do to help us before we get into the classroom. There was more than just learning something and teaching it to a group of kids. We learned that there is steps that teachers have to follow which make it so that the parents and other staff can see what they are doing. For the history we did a lot of stuff together as a whole class. Playing on the recorders was one of the easy ways we learned how songs are made by the way in which they skip from one note to the next. There was a lot of note taking but most of the stuff was on the board which made it every easy to follow and understand what we needed to know.
It was important to learn this because I feel that everyone should be able to read a little bit of music. It is one way in which people could express themselves. We had to learn how to do lesson planning because as teachers this is something that we will be doing for the rest of our lives. many schools will use these as a check to make sure that the teachers are getting everything in that they need to teach to their students. Watching other teach to was a big help. This helped us to see that there are many different ways which we can teach the information to the students. Also that students learn in many different ways so we need to knew different things we can do which will help these students.
It is important for children in elementary school to learn this to because once again i believe that it is very important for people to know a basic understanding of what music is and where is comes from. if we begin at an early age it is more likely that students will think that it is ok to use music as a way in which they can express themselves. In lesson planning this is another tool which can be used in the house that when the student is doing home the parent understands what the teacher was teaching so if the student is not understanding the parent can help explain it once again.