Week 8 Student Teaching

This week was my last week in charge of the class. Next week the cooperating teacher will be transitioning back into leading the class. Most of the week has been the same structure of students using 15-minute shifts. This eases up the monotony of having a 90-minute class. It allows students to get up, move around, and interact in different activities. One thing I love teaching in this class is composition. I think mainly because of the technology that is available to students was not available to me as a 12-year-old. It is great because when students are done making a melody they get to hear it playback on heir Chromebooks. I really like to stop the class and listen to the students' composition and play guitar with the melody, it embarrasses them but it's fun for me. I think in my future of teaching I would try to incorporate recording original compositions. I discovered this website called "sound trap" which allows students to log into a shared digital workspace that they can collaborate and record music. I never had this kind of technology so I thought this was super awesome. I will definitely incorporate this idea into my future classes. First students can compose a song together, then perform it and record it. Then students can name the song (or I can give them a topic) then I can post the song online for everyone to hear. Another thing that I want to try to incorprate into my classes is extra credit performances. I've done it a few times where students perform a piano song and I accompany them on guitar and another student on bongo. It was super fun and the students liked it. So, this week's goal was come up with more lesson plan ideas and I have accomplished that.I've gotten to know these kids so well I'm sad that I'm leaving next week.

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