This inquiry project is about aspects of leading a classroom that isn't necessarily studied in our bachelor's degrees. The phrase “I love you” means something different to every person. While curriculum, activities, and pedagogy is incredibly important in general music, so are the elements that create a positive classroom environment. Teachers can show love in their classrooms by understanding the importance of humanity, positivity, and inclusion toward the children that they teach. Teachers must also prepare themselves to be invested in all of their students and their own individual well-beings. For this assignment, I very much enjoyed getting to study the milestones of childhood movement development. We were instructed to create a heuristic that would help us better remember and learn the different stages of movement throughout a child's life. The better we know these things, the more accurately and inclusively we can plan movement lessons to ensure that our students are learning to the best of their abilities! Starting at infancy, and expanding all the way to 5th grade, my heuristic takes the form of something like a bookmark. This could be something to hang on a desk or a cork-board to be easily seen and read. It is themed after video games, as video games remind me of movements like jumping and running. These things are actually milestones in a child's development, so it will help me remember these aspects in the future! These questions guided my illustration!
1) Who were Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman why did they create the Orff-Schulwerk? 2) What is his approach and what are key components of the process? What are the aims, learning processes, and activities often associated with Orff-Schulwerk? 3) What are some of the practical uses Orff-Schulwerk (your thoughts included)? 4) What are some of the advantages and challenges (your thoughts included)? mrfrederickmusic (2012, August, 3). Interview with Zoltan Kodály [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dow-m3BuuNk
Organization of American Kodály Educators (2018). The Kodály concept. Retrieved from https://www.oake.org/about-us/the-kodaly-concept/ (Links to an external site.) J.I M (2015, July 7). Kodály summer school [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrTshUY1oko. |
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