journal 5

This week in class we cover a lot of material for our lesson plan. Our lesson plans were returned to us and we were able to go over various issues to improve our lesson. Personally I feel very pressured for this lesson plan. This is our first lesson plan that we have to present to the class and not having a good background in music really puts me under pressure. We were able to meet in groups to go over our lesson plan which was nice. We also covered a new note on the recorder. We went over the "D" note. we also covered sharps. I am still unclear of some of this but hopefully within the next few weeks before the test it will become more clear.

This week it was a lot of the instructor telling us techniques and ideas about our lesson plans. We were able to give her some of our ideas and then we got positive or negative feedback about our ideas. This was suppose to help us improve our teaching styles. We got feedback from our instructor and our classmates. Each style of feedback differed from ideas and techniques of teaching our lesson. We did not do a lot of musical things this week mostly our lesson plans.

This part of the class is very important to us. We need to know how to successfully teach a lesson to our students. Developing a successfully lesson plan will make our students a lot more knowledgeable in that subject. Incorporating music into our classrooms will give children a different style of learning to adapt to. So its important we learn how to teach our students.

Its important for students to be exposed to music in the classroom. It gives students more knowledge and helps them learn different ideas and techniques from different composers. It shows students that they can express themselves not only on paper but in music as well. It gives students a better understanding of musicianship itself.

I felt this week was a important week for us students. I think this next week we will be under a lot of pressure to present our lesson plans in front of one another. In the future we hope to take what we have learned and learn more about making a more successful lesson plan.