Music Fundamentals

Summary

The video describes music and how teachers namely Stephen Cedermark and matt Sansilo first grade and fourth grade music teachers respectively teach students aged 5 to 10 music essentials. The teachers ensure that the students learn music through introducing them to the music theory. Stepehen uses the drum to ensure students learn music and that they remain attentive to him. He uses music patterns to ensure the small children learn music and connect it with other subjects such as mathematics which is learnt through use of patterns too. Matt teaches the students on how to express themselves musically therefore encouraging students to do music since it enables them gain confident even in other subjects. He teaches them on how to handle music instruments and ensure they are able to play the instruments. He teaches the students on being musicians independently which is the main theme of this music program. He says that music is learnt from the basic and thus for the kids to understand music he helps them learn and understand the basic. In conclusion, the principal of the school is in support of this music programs and says that the kids needs it.

1. Stephen ensures that the students learn the patterns of music through teaching them through introducing them to those patterns and ensuring students remain active in the music class. He ensures that students remain active in the classroom since they participate in developing the patterns and coming up with the right patterns that need to be used. He ensures that students understand music and the patterns used just like those patterns students use in other subjects like mathematics. The students learn fast since he teaches them to connect the music patterns with other patterns learnt in other subjects. The small children love patterns and therefore use of these patterns is important since when children love something, they will learn it fast and therefore children do well in the music class since they love the patterns used by their teacher.
2. Specialty and classroom teachers should collaborate about their content since it ensures children love all the subjects and connect well in all those subjects. For instance when they learn patterns in other subjects they can easily understand and learn musical patterns without much problems. Therefore teachers are asked to collaborate well since it ensures that students learn more skills in all subjects and eventually become all round. All teachers should support each other in ensuring that students perform well in all subjects and therefore love all subjects. Children understand well subjects they love and therefore teachers should work together in ensuring the children love and understand all the subjects without many problems (Mullen, n.d). Music teachers encourage students on being attentive and active in class and thus they remain active throughout all the classes which is a positive development.
3. A student’s ability to read music and play an instrument is important since it translates the students’ confidence in the classroom. Children who study music are active and attentive thus able to ask any question they are not familiar too during the music class since they want to learn how to play the instruments (Mullen, n.d). In the same way, when they are in other classes they will have that confidence too to ask questions when they have not understood whatever the teacher is teaching them. Thus music classes install the students with the confidence they can use in other classrooms and throughout their lives as well.

 

Reference

Mullen.A (n.d) How Music Learning Theory Gives Meaning to What We Teach Retrieved from             https://timtopham.com/how-music-learning-theory-gives-meaning-to-what-we-teach/