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These materials are from a presentation shared by Dr. Jill Reese at the 2018 and 2019 Erie County Music Educators Association Conferences. Click on the buttons below to access teaching materials for various listening selections. For more details, contact reese@fredonia.edu
Pedagogical Tip for Movement Activities!
Pedagogical Tip for Movement Activities!
(AKA...How Might I Sequence Instruction?)
(AKA...How Might I Sequence Instruction?)
When teaching the listening activities with movement.
Step 1: Model with the recording (depending on the length, you might just demonstrate ONE PART of the piece).
Step 2: Model one phrase of movement without rhythmic implications (just the movement...no implication of beat or rhythm). Have students try that out on their own time and with their own beat.
Step 2: Model one phrase of movement without the recording but now with the beat/rhythm. Have students imitate without the recording and with the beat/rhythm.
Step 3: Model that phrase of movement with the recording. Have students imitate with the recording.
Teach each new idea separately...then combine.
Pedagogical Tip for Listening Map Activities!
Pedagogical Tip for Listening Map Activities!
(AKA...How Might I Sequence Instruction?)
(AKA...How Might I Sequence Instruction?)
When teaching the listening activities with maps.
Step 1: Model how to follow the map as a group. Begin with one small chunk at a time. Consider projecting on a screen at the front of the room. Consider singing the musical ideas and pointing along and then adding the recording. Have students follow with their "magic fingers" (...thanks for that term, Ann Rose!) by pointing at the map on the screen.
Step 2: Provide paper maps to small groups of students. The more experienced students will help support the others in their group. Listen to the music and follow along with fingers on the map (as in Step 1).
Step 3: Provide paper maps to individual students. Listen to the music and follow along with fingers on the map (as in Step 1).
Step 4: Consider challenging the students by cutting the map up and providing them with the pieces to put back in order...like a puzzle. Or have them recreate the map with icons (as in the "Peter and the Wolf - The Cat" activity). Or have them draw their own representation of part of the map (as in the "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks" map).
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