GUIDING QUESTION

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GUIDING QUESTION

• How can I provide a good music program that meets
  the Ministry of Educations expectations in my
  classroom?

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TEACHER ATTITUDES PERCEPTIONS(Hookey 2000, p.
23) EDUCATOR KNOW THYSELF

• How do you feel about...
• singing with children
• learning a new instrument
• exploring sounds
• What range of emotions do you expect your
  students singing, exploring sounds or learning a
  new instrument to have?

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TEACHER ATTITUDES PERCEPTIONSEDUCATORKNOW
YOURSELF

• What range of responses do you expect from
  children in P/J music?
• What images do you have about music teaching?
• How will your beliefs and images affect how you
  teach?

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• How do our attitudes and perceptions affect our
  learning and our teaching?

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Strategy GUIDED IMAGERY

• Think of a time when it was very difficult to
  learn something.
• What was it?
• What was the self talk like?
• How long did it take?
• How much energy did you give to it?
• How much time did you actually spend on task?
• Do you feel like sharing your experience?

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Strategy GUIDED IMAGERY

• Now think of a time when you learned something
  effortlessly.
• What was it?
• What was the self talk this time?
• How much energy did you give to it?
• How much time did you actually spend on task?
• How did you feel?
• Do you feel like sharing your experience?

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ME ATTITUDE?

• How does our ATTITUDE AND PERCEPTIONS affect our
  LEARNING and the CHOICES we make about curriculum
  as teachers?

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Why do some people not want to teach music?

• FEAR
• Lack of knowledge
• Lack of skill
• Lack of confidence
• Previous bad experiences
• How can we help them?

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TEAM CURRICULUM PLANNING IMPLEMENTATION

• WHAT is it?
• It is a method of planning.
• The premise is you are not alone.
• As a team we have the skills to plan and
  implement a good music program for our students
  that meets the ministry of educations
  expectations.

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Team CURRICULUM PLANNING

• WHO?
• classroom teachers
• resource teacher
• music coordinators
• consultants
• music specialists
• music teachers
• parents
• community members

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Team CURRICULUM PLANNING

• WHY?
• We all need to know we can seek out help in
  programming but especially in specialty areas.
• Many music specialists prefer to collaborate with
  others as well.
• Many boards are now hiring music specialists to
  teach music or to help guide classroom teachers.

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RESOURCES

• Music programs
• e.g. Music Builders, Musicanada, Canada Is
  Musicplay, Teachers Choice
• Texts and teacher guidebooks
• Websites see course outline
• music education texts
• CDs, tapes,songbooks, videos
• Ministry of Education and Training Arts Document
• Professional Associations OMEA

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SUMMARY

• Guiding question
• Attitudes and perceptions
• Team curriculum planning and implementation
• Resources available

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References

• Hookey, M. (2000) Learning music a team approach
  to elementary music education. Toronto Museworks
• Were on the Upward Trail Whales and
  Nightingales Basic Goals in Music4 p.12