Evaluation

Musicianship (5 pts) ____5_________
In tune, accurate pitch
Accurate rhythm
Appropriate tempo
Phrasing
Expression

Leadership (10 pts) ______5__________
Body language
Facial expression
Voice tone and volume
Eye contact
Intensity (energy)

Preparation (15 pts) ___15______________
Knowledge of music
Knowledge of plan
Written plan
Instruments/equipment ready
Recordings/charts/materials ready

Delivery of Instruction (20 pts) __13___________
Motivation, capturing attention
Sequencing of steps
Verbal instructions
Questioning
Pace of lesson, flow, transition
Flexibility (ability to diagnose and adjust)
Feedback to the learners
Continuity/focus of lesson
Closure
Total Points __38____________

Journal Reflection # 6

What i found most difficult about the presentation was getting up in front of the class and actually making the lesson plans we wrote come to life. i really am not very comfortabke with getting up in groups of people. For me , it is easier to get up in front of a class full of children rather than a group of people your own age.
I dont believe that i spoke or sung loud enough because generally I am a very softspoken person. I alos think that my ending could have been stronger and i could have come up with better questions to ask the class.
The hand movements went very well with the song that i was teaching and i theink that would be something that second graders would enjoy doing.
If i could do the whole thing over again i think that I would choose a different song. There are many other song that would be a better pick when trying to incoroporate musical and non musical concepts into the lesson.

Journal Week #5

This week reviewed our lesson plans and also covered some things that we will need to know for our first test. We worked in detail with our lesson plans and worked in groups on how to present the plan to the class. This was my first time working on a lesson plan and i realized that i didnt put enough detail into it but in my second draft i put in the hand movements and everything else that should have went in my first draft. i think that working in the groups was a good idea becausethe people in my group helped me to see the the things that werent right in my first draft. I am kind of nervous about teaching my song to the class but since it is my first time i l believe this will be a very good learning experience. on friday we learned a new note on the recorder and the class was doing very well and we all sounded very good playing together and also with the piano to.

Journal Reflection # 3

This week we learned many new things but one thing that we really focused on was melody. The definition that we learned is that melody is a variation of high, low and the same pitch. We also learned about the scale that was associated with us learning about melody, this scale is the CDEFGABC. The treble clef sometimes called the G- clef comes at the begging of the 5 line scale. After we learned about these our assignment was to go draw pictures that went to the beat of the song rain, but the catch was we had to place the pictures we drew on the same place on the scale that the note would show up. I think that this assignment helped up to better understand where the notes come on the scale because you actually had to do it for yourself. We also had to learn about whole notes, the half notes and the quarter notes and all if these things were incorporated in our homework in some way. We also talked about the tone you should use when singing song with children. The younger they are the higher your voice should be so they can sing along.
On Friday we got some more practice on our recorders. Last week we learned to play three notes on the recorder, A, B, G. We were directed in class to use these three notes to play the song “Think of a Fly” and we could put the notes wherever we wanted to in the song. I didn’t think that this activity was difficult it was actually a lot of fun because we got to use or own creativity.