Elementary Music Teacher Observation

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Throughout this semester of college, I have observed three separate Elementary General Music teachers. Each of the teachers had their own personalities that each reflected upon their teaching. They all came from different areas of study, but all still manage to be successful, each with their own pros and cons. The first teacher that I observed with my group was Mr. Leonhardt at Streams Elementary School. While I was there, I was able to observe him teach two classes of fourth graders, two classes of third graders, and one class of second graders. One of the most valuable things that I have learned from observing him, is that there are male teachers who are very successful in the area of teaching. He was able to keep control over his all of his classes because he set specific guidelines and rules that he wanted them to follow. He left very little time between lessons so that they would not lose their focus, and get distracted. He was also very …show more content…

Davidson, at Jefferson Elementary School. When I visited her classroom, I observed her fifth grade class, and her third grade class. While we were there, we also assisted her while she was on lunch duty, and recess. We were also able to observe one of her fellow music teachers who taught strings and brass to 3rd and 4th graders. Most of the lessons that she taught to them were reviewing songs, and also an composition demo. For the songs that she reviewed, she would start with just clapping the rhythms, and move on to adding everything else till they could fully sing it. For the composition lessons, she had them write down a set of rhythms on ta, and ti ti. She would then let them add pitches, do mi and sol to their compositions. We also taught them Great Big House in New Orleans, where we simply taught them the entire song, which they could fully sing it by themselves once we were done. We also taught Out In the Garden, in which we added a recorder ostinato to parts of the

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