I will continue doing curriculum maping in the classroom. I learned that students learn best when it is a little too hard for them. I think it would be good to have the students figure how they learn best through using multiple intelligences. That could help me with challenging students and empower students to know how they learn best. I would like to do the survey either at the end of this year or the beginning of next year. I teach a lot of the same students 6-8th grades.
I love to change the classroom routines and play a game with the content. I already do some of this on Friday. The seventh grade boys like to play basketball with two teams. They can only shoot the basket after they either sing a Do Re Mi or name a note or rest. They really like to do this. I'd like to expand on this idea.
I would like to move to higher thinking order questions with Bloom's verbs. Have students compose a melody or create a poem that could become the text in a song. Students could work together to create something origional.
We have started to break into small groups to sight read. I would like to expand that to questioning each other about note names and key signature names. After they have this information we could play a game with the material.
I would share these things with my student teacher and with those who visit my classroom. Also with other choral teachers who need my help making their classrooms more engaging.
I am glad I was able to get this information in this form. It could prove to be very useful in making my classroom more engaging to my students.
Sue Ellen Williams
Double Churches Middle School
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