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ETEC 578
Purpose of the instruction
During my time as a student teacher at a middle school I discovered
that 6th grade students were having trouble understanding and reciting
rhythmic examples. Much of class was being used to teach and reteach
basic rhythmic passages and not on practicing music and teaching
sight-reading skills. Continued lack in rhythmic skills will cause these
students to become further behind when moving into 7th and 8th grade
choirs.
To further explain the problem I had to recall my time within the
elementary school music classroom. While there I realized that
students were not given adequate instruction in rhythm. The sole
reason for this was that teachers simply did not have enough time in
the music classroom to teach these skills. Students were only in the
class once a week for 30-40 minutes. During this time music teachers
had to teach styles of music, instruments, intervals, as well as rhythm.
This purpose of this instruction will be to help my future students
master basic rhythmic examples in order to create a foundation as
they progress through the music program. Rhythmic exercise are to
include whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth note exercises as
well as basic time signature.(4/4, 3/4, 2/4)
Description of the Learner
The students are 6th grade beginner choir students. They suffer from a
lack of foundational rhythmic skills when reciting or reading passages
in class. In the class there are students who have been in choirs in the
past and students without choir experience. All have been introduced
to music in the elementary level.
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