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For the last day of pre-internship, I gave the students 15 minutes to work on their verses. They could touch them up, make quick fixes if necessary, and then rehearse. I told the students that they didn't have to sing if they didn't want to; they could simply read them out loud. I was extremely unimpressed with the number of students that were not finished their verses. I thought I had given them a generous amount of time to begin with, and I was frustrated to see so many of them starting to write their verses and rush their thoughts in the fifteen minutes provided.
When we went to present them, we sat in a circle and I explained to the students that after each verse, I expected the person sitting to the right of the presenter and the person to the left to say something nice about the verse. Some of the students came out of their shells and blew me away with what they had, and others showed that we needed to go over rhyme scheme again and what rhyming words look and sound like. I explained to them that not all songs have to rhyme, but that was the expectation for these verses. Some of the students were personal with their verses and I enjoyed that they were comfortable enough with me to show their vulnerability. We ended the class with 8-10 minutes to fill out a five question self-assessment/reflection that discussed the last four weeks of learning specifically about music. Some of the students had shown great progress and others would benefit from more time on the subject. I was happy to be the first teacher they've had this year to cover music with them and I hope they continue to learn more about music and singing in the weeks that I am not there. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the school and I look forward to returning in March. I feel that I have created positive relationships with the students and it was nice to receive some hugs before leaving on Wednesday. I had some challenges long the journey these past eight weeks, but I have learned a lot about time management, classroom management, and effective ways to portray information to the students within my classroom. Now that I have a strong grasp on what works for my specific students, I look forward to creating lessons for them in my three week block! This week I taught the students how to identify components within musical compositions such as rhyme and repetition. The students enjoyed coming up to the board to circle the words and over the weeks I have noticed that having the students interactive and involved during presentations is more effective within this specific classroom. Over the past two weeks, I have had some technology issues in the classroom. I consistently had difficulty hooking up to the projector and I found that my last lesson made me feel relieved because I did not rely on the technology in the classroom. I want to incorporate technology in the classroom because it is more popular and in the specific room that I am in, we have one to one laptops (this is amazing). Although we are encouraged to incorporate technology into the classroom, there are some lessons that just do not need it.
After having the students identify components, I explained the connection between writing verses and writing poetry. We went over different types of rhyme scheme and how not all lines that corresponded had to end in perfect rhymes. I gave all of the students a two page note package with all of the notes from the PowerPoint and then I gave them ten minutes to work on writing their own verses that were to be 4-6 lines. I told the students that if they finished one verse, they could make another one as well, but it wasn't mandatory. I assigned the one verse for homework because that gave them one week to finish it and they had a long weekend. I wrote their homework on the board and then explained that we would present them in a large group the following Wednesday. |