The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and their connections, and to build skills to access and appropriately apply information.
In order for students to fully understand what the teacher is wanting from them, the teacher must give the proper instruction to the students. The teacher needs to use a variation of strategies when presenting lessons to students. Students will get bored if they have to do the same thing or hear the same thing everyday. By mixing up how teachers present the lessons to their students, students will enjoy being taught lessons and like to come to class. This way of mixing up lessons is also a good way to see what works when teaching and how a teacher should and should not approach their class to learn certain subjects of music. By encouraging students to look further into the material being taught, they are able to progress in their understanding of the lesson. In music, encouraging students to look at their lesson and what they are learning outside the classroom is a great way for them to truly understand what they are learning and apply it. Doing this also helps to build the skills needed to access and apply the information necessary to succeed in the classroom. The skills needed for music are developed through the instruction given by teachers to their students and repetition of the skill used. By knowing what is expected, students can use the skills they will learn to progress in the subject they are learning.
I feel that I have not had the instruction necessary to have a great deal of experience in this principle. I have not had enough teaching experience to fully present the principle; therefore, I can say I need more practice in developing this principle for proper production. I will have to work to develop the new ways of teaching and instruction that would best work for the students I will be teaching.
I am taking Music Education at Ball State that will help me to learn how I am to develop appropriate instructional strategies, and how to show students how to acquire the skills necessary to succeed. I will also be student teaching in the future that will benefit me to see what methods of instruction work for other classes. This will give me more experience in the instruction I wish to implement in my teaching. I hope to gain the knowledge of instructional strategies that will benefit my students and myself to accomplish my goal of being a great teacher.
MUSE 356- Choral Methods 1 Rationale: Throughout this course, I have learned different kinds of instructional strategies to use in my lessons to teach students to develop the deep understanding of content areas and build skills to apply information. When reflecting upon lessons, I have noticed how different instructional strategies have affected students' learning. I feel that I have more developing to do with this InTASC standard, because there are so many instructional strategies to be implemented into a classroom. I also feel that with teaching a class a greater amount of times will allow me to connect with the students to help them to think more deeply and build those skills to apply information that the standard states.
MUSE 376- Choral Methods 2 Rationale: In choral methods 2, we have learned a variety of instructional strategies that are effective when teaching classrooms, specifically in high school. I feel that by gaining teaching experience and learning how students respond to instruction, I am learning how to use many different instructional styles that I see fit for a classroom. This course has given me the opportunity to understand the importance of knowing the content I am teaching and then experiment with approaches to teaching the material. I have been able to grow in these traits by teaching my peers lessons and teaching in a high school classroom. I feel that with more experience, I will learn to broaden my strategies and figure out the best ways to teach students for them to succeed.
MUSE 457 Artifact: Kodaly Lesson Plan Dalcroze Movement Presentation Rationale: Throughout this course, we have learned about several instructional strategies including Kodaly, Dalcroze, and Orff. This lesson plan involves teaching a song using the Kodaly approach. This lesson was broken into three parts, melodic, rhythmic, and an "other" section. This lesson is an example of using multiple instructional strategies within a lesson. It also shows how these approaches can be used in a classroom setting and how I would use them in the future. This lesson is a perfect example of instructional strategies within a lesson. The other presentation that is attached is an example of the way the Dalcroze approach can be used in a lesson. This presentation could be used as a lesson plan to add movement to a normal lesson plan. I feel that I will use Dalcroze movements in the future to allow especially elementary students, to move and feel the music and learn the concepts in these ways. Both of these artifacts are great examples of instructional strategies that can be used in a music education classroom. The Kodaly and Dalcroze approaches can also be combined to create a lesson that can be even more effective than one with just one approach. I will strive to utilize multiple approaches in the future to plan for the learner differences of my students. -
Student Teaching Artifact: Fourth Grade Lesson Plan Rationale: Throughout my time student teaching, I have learned how to use multiple instructional strategies while teaching my students and planning my lessons. In my lessons, I have learned that having the students engage in multiple activities in order to learn a concept helps them to grasp it better than if I were to just talk about it instead. The lesson I have attached to this standard is one for a fourth grade class that involved dancing. The students learned the song through singing it first, and then in order to learn the dance, we all stood up and I taught it to them. The overarching concept of this lesson was meter and 4/4 time signature. Having the students dance and connect the steps taken in the dance to the number of beats per measure helped them use a different approach to understanding meter. The students were able to tell me exactly what meter it was in after we learned the song and the dance, and could then use this information to find the meters of other songs in future lessons. I will strive to use lessons like these and multiple instructional strategies to help students understand concepts in many ways. This in turn will help them to do well in future lessons where the same strategies are used or concepts return that they learned through these multiple instructional strategies.