Blog #3

1.What are long and short term goals? Please give an example for each.
Long-term goals are designed to assist the teacher in clearly specifying what is ultimately to be achieved in a learning environment. An example of a long-term goal could be how a person wants to lose a specific amount of weight. A short-term goal is something that needs to be accomplished in a particular week or lesson. An example may be when someone has a paper due within the week and it needs to be finished as soon as possible.

2. What is a musical concept? Please list six musical concepts mentioned in the textbook.
A musical concept is when a teacher plans to focus on one particular subject such as musical notes or tones. Rhythm, melody, texture, dynamics, tone color, timber, and form.

3. What is musical skill? Please give examples.
A musical skill is the specific point in music that someone is good at and can be developed. An example could be a person's ability to sing.

4. What is the possible sequence of writing a lesson plan?
In preparing a lesson plan the teacher needs to do this early. The teacher should start with a warm-up, then introduce a new musical concept to the students, then have the students use this new concept, and then review.

5. List the 9 national standards in music education?
1. Singing alone and with others.
2. Performing on instruments, alones and with others.
3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
4. Composing and arranging music within specific guidelines.
5. Reading and notating music.
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
7. Evaluating music and musical performances.
8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and discipline outside the arts.
9. Understanding music in relations to history and culture.

6. Music is important in a child’s education because . . . (why do we need music? What is the purpose of music?)
Music is important in a child's education because it gives the child a new way of learning as well as gives them something exciting to do while in class. Its a way to express their creativity in which they cannot do in all their classes.

Assignment #2

1. What is psychomotor learning?
Psychomotor learning is learning involving mental processes that control muscular activity.
An example of psychomotor learning could be when a child uses their hands as drums to keep a steady beat.

2. What is cognitive learning?
Cognitive learning deals with the acquisition of knowledge.
An example can be when the teacher shows the child what each musical note means and how to draw them.

3. What is affective learning?
Affective learning is associated with a feeling response to music.
An example can come from how scientist say that children are affected by certain kinds of music such as; rap, country, and so forth.

4. What is the difference between teacher-centered and child-centered learning? Give a musical example.
Teacher-centered is when the teacher is a lecturer who presents material to the class by defining and explaining.
For example, the teacher stands in front of the class doing a beat and the child is supposed to follow suit.
Child-centered learning actively involves the students in the learning process. The students try to solve a problem that is given by their teacher.
For example, the teacher would just say make a beat and the child is to create their own beat based on how they think it should sound.

5.Students learn through a combination of their senses. Some learn fast through visual sense, others may learn more quickly through aural senses. What do you think about your learning style? In general, what kind of learner are you? (In which way, you learn faster and better?
I feel as if I am a visual learner. If I can see something done then I will process it more quickly. I also have a slight photographic memory allowing me to remember things that I have seen very well. I believe this is the reason in which I love math so much.