Grant
Undergraduate
Music Education |
Grant
Undergraduate
Music Education |
This past week was a 4 day week due to Italian Liberation Day on Tuesday April 25th - it was nice to have that Tuesday off but that Wednesday truly felt like a Monday.
I taught multiple Year 4 lessons on music technology, transitioning from Chrome Music Lab Sound Maker and introducing them to BandLab. It took almost one whole 45 minute class to have all the students create an account - it’s funny how technology doesn’t go your way some days! The goal of their BandLab assignment, as I have mentioned in my last blog, is to create a composition with sounds from Siena. The Y4 students are continuing to learn about looping and sampling and how we can utilize both in compositions. One way I demonstrated this is by relating ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme Gimme!” to Madonna’s “Hung up.” (For reference, listen to the first 40 seconds of Madonna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99M6-7KW0k) With the Year 1 students, we are transitioning from our unit on tempo/measurement to animals and instrument families. I am teaching them about the 4 main instrument families (woodwind, brass, string, percussion) and how each produces their sound. I have been utilizing resources such as the US Army Field Band Instrument Demonstration for Beginning Band and Benjamin Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. Students have been working on naming the instruments, placing them in their respective instrument families, and relating instruments to animals (2 of their examples are relating a flute to a bird and a trombone to an elephant). They are truly a smart class and have been utilizing percussion instruments to see the different ways we can play percussion. My mentor teacher and I are debating to start recorders with them - yes the instrument that everyone plays in elementary school. We will continue to learn more in depth about instrument families this upcoming week and I think one way to demonstrate the woodwind family is to play saxophone for them! Over the weekend, 5 of us traveled to Grosseto and then onto a beach campground, Riva del Sole near Castiglione Della Pescaia . It rained all weekend but that didn’t stop us from enjoying our stay. We stayed in a 3-bedroom cabin, ate at the beach restaurant, and even went swimming in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The weekend was a fun time even though it was hard to stay dry!
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AuthorHello everyone and welcome to my blog about my experience student teaching at the International School of Siena! My name is Grant Asklar and I am a senior Music Education major at SUNY Buffalo State University. I play primarily saxophone, clarinet, and flute, and am looking forward to this intercultural teaching experience. Archives
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