Standard #4: The
teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies, including
the use of technology to encourage children’s development of critical thinking,
problem solving, and performance skills.
Artifacts: Concert Chorus Lesson 1 (Mozart Melisma)
Learning Activities
Using a variety of instructional strategies encourages the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills in students. In my Concert Chorus Lesson, my students become engaged and experience music through a variety of instructional strategies. This includes multimedia in the form of a video, singing, moving to recorded music, reading and speaking note patterns, and evaluating musical qualities from the song “Oh Happy Day” sung by Aretha Franklin. Students are also encourage to think critically and evaluate their own performances. This is done many days by having certain sections listen to other sections parts for things such as tall vowels, long phrases, energized singing, etc. By holding other sections accountable for proper technique and singing, they are able to formally assess each other and play a role in encouraging their peer’s growth as well as their own learning.
Artifacts: Concert Chorus Lesson 1 (Mozart Melisma)
Learning Activities
Using a variety of instructional strategies encourages the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills in students. In my Concert Chorus Lesson, my students become engaged and experience music through a variety of instructional strategies. This includes multimedia in the form of a video, singing, moving to recorded music, reading and speaking note patterns, and evaluating musical qualities from the song “Oh Happy Day” sung by Aretha Franklin. Students are also encourage to think critically and evaluate their own performances. This is done many days by having certain sections listen to other sections parts for things such as tall vowels, long phrases, energized singing, etc. By holding other sections accountable for proper technique and singing, they are able to formally assess each other and play a role in encouraging their peer’s growth as well as their own learning.