Week Four On the Floor

This week in MUSC 373 we learned how to write a lesson plan for a unit on singing. This was taught to us through a demonstration and a written guide on how to write the lesson. We learned how to teach a song to young students while keeping their limited vocal ranges in mind. We also read through the first pages of the recorder book on Friday. We worked through many songs with students telling us the names of the different notes. We also learned that the use of a strongly planned lesson could help with younger students and classroom management while teaching.
The way in which we learned how to write a lesson plan was through observing a lesson being taught. We then analyzed the different sections of the lesson while looking at an outline for lesson plans. We also learned how to teach younger students the correct tone for their developing voices. During the class on Friday, we learned the different names of the notes and the fingerings for those notes on the recorder. We learned this through others in the class telling us the notes and we were expected to know the fingerings since we had learned them the previous week.
It was important for us, as students, to learn these things so we can teach them to our students if there is a need for that in our classes. It was also important so that we, as future educators, can use music n the classroom to facilitate the different learning styles of the children in our care. It was important for us to learn how to write lesson plans so that when we are planning to incorporate music into our lessons we will be able to make correct decisions about the level of music to choose for the grade.
The use of recorders in the general education classroom would be difficult to incorporate into the curriculum. In younger classrooms, the use of the recorder could be used to learn hand-eye coordination. It could also be used to help younger students The use of singing in a class of younger students would also help students to understand difficult material like the names of the states and their capitals. It is also important for students to learn the recorder because it is good for the students to be exposed to music at a young age to help the areas of the brain which control arts and creativity continue to grow throughout their childhood and life.

Emilie