Elementary Music Education Observation Essay

The trend I observed is a tramp 5 music class at Bellewood Public School with 25 students, the teacher is Mr. Bestien. Mr. Bestien mainly conduct his class in a oral sex and answer format, where he rents the class a question and let the class figure out the answer.The class I observed was being taught to form Irish Washerwoman on a recorder in this lesson. Mr. Bestian asks the students to give out the piece before letting them play he asked the class When sounding at music, what comes first? which leads to the new concept of 6-8 time. The teacher had the students clap the pulsation while counting the beats out loud and when students eventually broken track of where they are, as the piece is all 8th notes, so he asked the students what they spate do to keep track of the beats. One student suggested that they can count and clap beat 1 and 4 extra loud, which hence the teacher suggested the students to clap the rhythms again and stomp their feet on beat 1 and 4. Then the clas s revised the concept of pick up notes. after(prenominal) that, the teacher asked the class what is the samara of the piece, revised on how to determine the key by looking at the key signature. The piece being taught is in F major so the class also did a alteration on the fingering for B flat on the recorder, the teacher past have the students to cross check each others fingerings.It seems to me that Mr. Bestien is adapting more than of a problem solving lesson plan, as he asked the students a surge of questions to get them think closely the piece that they are about to learn. He is very observant about the weakness of the students, hence was able to ask other students what could be the solution for the problem.There were several other throws that Mr. Bestien utilise in the class. When the class is not as engaged as they should be, he made the students stand up and sit down several generation to get their blood to circulate better. He also taught the students a trick to reme mber the fingerings for notes with sharps, which I think would be very helpful, because as a grown up even Becca and I did not know about it. The trick is for example we want to play an A sharp, we first dedicate down the fingerings for A (left thumb, index, and nub), then put two more fingers (left 4th, and office index) down directly below the lowest finger for A, than remove the middle finger from the hole, and that would become an A sharp which is enharmonic to B flat.