Posts Tagged teaching music
Rationale for a New Way of Teaching Music
Product Description
(from Exposition d’une Nouvelle méthode, 1818)Inspired by the teachings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and persuaded that traditional methods of teaching music in France were mistaken, Pierre Galin applied his training in logic and the sciences to a devising a more satisfactory teaching procedure. The unprecedented analysis of the learning process common to language and music that resulted is published here in Bernarr Rainbow’s translation for the first time. It presents… More >>
Rationale for a New Way of Teaching Music
Tags: bernarr rainbow, exposition, galin, jean jacques rousseau, logic, music, product description, Rationale, teaching, teaching music, translationRelated posts
Creative Music Teachers Resources – Effective Ways to Motivation
Most music teachers consider teaching music to their dear students both their profession and passion. Most of them have the heart for arts and music – making each student love learning music and music as a whole. With this kind of outlook and disposition in teaching music, the inspired and motivated music teacher tends to begin his search for consistent improvement in his teaching strategies as well as his effort for personal and professional growth.
Indeed, there is a wide variety of creative music teachers resources that students can certainly enjoy and get excited working on with. According to studies, the integration of audio and video recording in music education has been an effective technique to catch the attention and grab the interest of the learners. This is believed to be an effective tool in raising the level of interest and motivation among music learners.
Current practice in music teaching favors a practical and a hands-on approach in emphasizing performance and composition. The use of recorded music as a teaching resource has tended to take a back seat. However, recordings are the predominant vehicle of musical experience today. As the students are expert listeners to recorded sound, major developments in the access to and presentation of recorded music are opening up new educational possibilities to most of them.
Targeted to be implemented in most music classrooms, the production and engineering aspects of recorded sound to online music libraries and teachers’ experiences of using recordings in the classroom have been randomly practiced and taken into consideration.
When a classroom setting has a relaxed atmosphere, informal learning may take place yet anxiety, tension and pressure would neither rule the learning situation. Hence, when there is relaxed supervision with no teachers behind the desk, the students would be more eager and interested to learn music. Students may also work in groups – giving them more chances of friendship and peer support. In this case, cooperative learning is found effective. The music teacher may encourage the students choose various musical instruments of their choice and eventually master such.
After they finish recording, they may organize or set-up a short play or a mini-concert to show their rendition of songs and other performances. These activities can heighten the learning process as they get too excited in meeting their objectives and getting high grades. These can also help them boost enough self-confidence and self-esteem. Through these music teachers’ resources, the music teacher tends to meet most of his objectives all at the same time.
These creative techniques in music education intend to motivate the learners from different ages and with different lifestyles. So start your quest to amazingly creative music teachers resources now. Be inspired to share your knowledge as well as the joys of music to your students. Make them realize that learning music is fun so they have to do it all by heart. Happy teaching!
Tags: e learning, education, learn music, learning, learning music, music, music classroom, music education, music learn, music teacher, music teachers, music teachers resources, music teaching, musical instrument, musical instruments, songs, sound, teach, teacher, teachers, teachers resources, teaching, teaching music, teaching strategiesRelated posts
Possible Resources For Music Teachers
Music has always been a part of our lives. There always seem to be songs that bring you back to a time of your life. Personally, I grew up every morning to the “old” rock songs my uncle always listened to.
Though rock music did not turn out to be my genre, still those mornings waking up to music instilled in me a love for music. Becoming a musician and music teacher became both choice and destiny.
I discovered when I finally set out to be a music teacher, was that I needed a loads of resources to make me efficient. Fortunately, I was able to find what I need, sometimes through friends, from sheer resourcefulness out of my personal experience in music, and, well, the internet!
The advantage of being an insider in the world of music is that I have made connections even before I started my own studio. My exploit as a choir conductor gave me the chance to meet many other music teachers and proprietors.
Indeed, their personal stories actually partly pushed me into teaching music full-time. Their tips served as my guide when I was still starting. Because of them, I was not as surprised as I could have been regarding the arduous tasks music teachers have.
One of the most important things they told me was the administrative parts of starting a music education business. What permits to get and where or from whom to get them. They also gave ideas of what type of locations are conducive to practice and to market a music studio.
My personal experiences as a choir conductor also helped a lot. Not only did I get to have the proper connections, I also have first hand knowledge about music. I applied them conveniently into my teaching lessons.
Sometimes true stories on personal experiences are more potent references for music lessons. Students get to appreciate them more since they would see it as something real, something concrete. Mostly because it already happened to their teacher!
And, of course, who in this day and time would not check out the internet for resources? The internet is a widely opened window of possibilities and opportunities. A lot of music teachers consult this virtual world to get new ideas, and, at the same time, share their own thoughts and suggestions.
Furthermore, some of them has put up, or helped put up, websites especially for music teachers. They provide both the trusted and new teaching ideas. They have software and computer programs to assist in music teaching and learning. They even offer programs to help music teachers, especially those who run their own music studios, in the administrative aspects of their vocation.
I could not have done it on my own. I need other people and outside resources to link with my personal knowledge to make my chosen craft work. This benefited not only me but most importantly my students, to whom I wanted to instill the love of music. That matters most!
Tags: education, learning, music, music education, music lesson, music lessons, music studio, music studios, music teacher, music teachers, music teaching, rock music, songs, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching, teaching and learning, teaching musicRelated posts