Week 11: Models

 Dalcroze Teaching

In this video the students are up and moving around to the music. They are using free movement to interact with the music. Unlike the Kodaly method, the Dalcroze method allows the students to move around. The Dalcroze method allows the children to be expressive through movement like the Orff method allows children to be expressive through instruments.

Kodaly Method

In the parts of the video where they were doing the Kodaly lesson you can see where the students were not actively engaged in movement or instruments. They were using their hands to define the different pitches of a song. When children are taught music according to the Kodály principles, they will read music fluently and be able to transfer their music reading from voice to instruments.

Orff Approach

Unlike in the other two music approaches, the Orff approach the children are interacting with instruments. They are actively engaged in the classroom just like in the other two models. They use different instruments to actively engage the students in music. This approach is appealing to the teacher and student because it involves active music making and many creative activities.

Recorder performance

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I posted two Recorder performances because I was not for sure if they loaded properly.

Recorder Preformance Assessment

http://youtu.be/SE22Knm-meA

Instrumental Music

This video is a flute solo and is depicted as part of the woodwind family because it is an instrument that blows across a surface to create sound.

In this video we see a Tuba being played. The Tuba falls into the brass family because you buzz your lips into the instrument to produce sound.

This woman is playing the Harp, which falls into the string family. You can clearly see that she is plucking at the strings to produce the sound.

In this video you can hear the drums being played. The drums fall under the percussion family because you must strike them to produce sound.

Teach a Song: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

I showed you in the video a visual aid for a contour map to help you better understand the step motion of the song. A contour map is very helpful when teaching students a song because it gives them a good understanding of the different pitches in the song.
I also apologize for my singing, its never been my strongest ability.

Week 7: Vocal Technique

I chose this video because it contains multiple examples of bad vocal techniques. In each audition the performers pitches were very off and they were out of tune. They had horrible posture and their breathing techniques were off as well. Most of their jaws were not relaxed and their eyebrows rarely were raise.

The girl in this video has great breath control and is very in-tune. Her pitches seemed to be on point with the song and she had a very relaxed jaw and her eyebrows were up as she was singing. She produced her high and low keys without a struggle in transition as well.

Poem Reflection

Stage 1: The event itself

Blog assignment for week 5 was to pick a poem from a list them recite it using a steady beat then recite it using "ti-ti and Ta's" in place of the words.

Stage 2: What happened

I chose the poem, "Fishy-Fishy" and first wrote out what I felt would be the "Ti-Ti's and Ta's". I was unsure if i was doing it correctly so I emailed Chris to get a better grasp on what I was doing before I did the video. It took me about three tries to get the video right. The upload took me a couple tries because it was not downloading properly.

Stage 3: Review

Overall, I did very well with this assignment. My video was on point with Chris in breaking down the video in "ti's and ta's".
I feel that I do need some improvement on fully understanding how to replace the words with "ti's and ta's" because I did need some clarification from Chris in the beginning.

Stage 3: Peer observation

After viewing some of my peer videos, I was relieved to see that I had did my video correctly. Also by reading the comments I felt reassured that I was not the only one that might of had some issues converting to the "ti's and ta's".

After this past assignment I realize how important visual aids are. I am glad that I took the time to write out my poem and the "ti's and ta's" with it. It helped me to get a better grasp on the concept of going from one to the other.

Week 5: Fishy- Fishy Poem

Here is my poem pick with the four beat rhythm and the Ti-Ti and Ta's. Enjoy!

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Week 4 Video

Week 2

Rhythm

 Definition:   A pattern of different sounds and rests.

Q: What do you like about the way Miss Taylor presented the information? Why?

A: I liked the fact that she meet every type of learners needs. She used the traditional teaching method of lecture-style to explain rhythm to the auditory learners. She also used her boards to accommodate the visual learners and she asked the students to practice the rhythm with her to better help the kinesthetic learners.

Q: What do you dislike about the way Miss Taylor presented information? Why?

A: The only thing I disliked about the way she presented was the fact she seemed like she really did not care. She was very mono-toned in her lecture and to get students to want to learn you need to show interest in the subject yourself. I do not feel your student will care to learn what you are teaching them if you do not seem to care yourself. You cannot just go through the motions, you need to have emotion in your teachings.

Q: Is this an example of good teaching? Why do you think so?

A: Overall this is a good example of teaching. She had ways to present the information to every type of learner which is very important. 

Q: How many different ways did Miss Taylor present the information? Why do you think is important?

A: She presented the information through lecture, boards, and showing the rhythm by demonstrating it. She explained how to simplify the definition of rhythm to make it easier for the students and used her boards to visually show it through words and pictures. Then she showed an example of rhythm through clapping. It is important to present your information in different ways, that way you have a better success rate of getting all your students to understand.

Introduction

Hello Everyone!

My name is Kayla Nida and this is my second year at State but my fourth year in college.I originally went to the University of Charleston but soon realized it was not a good fit for me. I took a year off to figure out what I wanted to do with my life and decided I wanted to help mold the minds of the next generation. My family helped to encourage me to pursue a teaching career and I am now an Elementary Education major at WVSU.

I was born in Charleston WV but moved around a lot as a child and spent most of my years in Colorado before I moved back in 8th grade. I have always been interested in music and always wanted to learn how to play an instrument but never had the chance as a child. When I began UC I took advantage of the opportunity to take a piano class and found that I was pretty good at it. 

There are a few different things that I really enjoy in life but one main one is my pets. I love animals and I own a total of 14. I have nine reptiles, two ferrets, a hedgehog, and two cats. I love animals because, just like children, you get to watch them grow and see the different behaviors they can exhibit.

I have worked at Petsmart for over two years now and found that children love reptiles and exotic pets and it helps to get them to learn. I believe that children learn in different ways and finding what triggers that learning is the first step to their success. I want to get a better understanding of music and how I can incorporate it into my lesson plans so I can show my students that learning can come from the most unexpected places and hopefully help at least one student learn something through the sound of music. 
I am confident enough that I will learn something from this class to use throughout my teaching career, that I have no concerns with this course.