1. Please share your story as an LSKM 221 student by comparing your knowledge, skills, experiences, abilities and attitude towards music education from the start of the semester to the end of the semester.

As a performing arts teacher for grades 4 -7, I learned a lot of things that I am already teaching to children. But because of studying FP it was eye-opening to learn and break down this knowledge in simpler ways.  Sometimes it is also challenging to take skills and knowledge that you have, but make it easy enough for others to understand, who have never learned it before

2. What was your experience of the role of individual reflection as part of the teaching and learning process? Use the following prompts to reflect on your blogging experience and the role that individual reflection played (or not) in your teaching and learning experience this semester:

• What did you learn from your individual reflections?

The individual reflections helped me to form opinions on questions that I didn't know I would even have an opinion on. It is rewarding to challenge yourself to dig deeper into your thoughts to answer certain questions that you haven't thought about before.

• What did you find challenging?

I always find group work extremely challenging, but strange enough the group work in this specific subject created a feeling of unity, whereas in other subjects I got frustrated. We didn't know each other, brainstormed really well together and ended up getting 100% for one of our assignments! Sometimes the challenges lead to victories!

• Please share what you would change in the LSKM221 module if you had the opportunity. The following prompts can guide your reflection:

I enjoyed the fact that the assignments and content were really well planned and creatively executed (Even just referring to the pretty patterns in the Word documents of the blogs and assignments).

I do like being able to download slideshows (PPT)  because I change them and add pictures and ideas to my own liking. Therefore the basic content in PPT format would've been really convenient, but I understand that that is a luxury and not necessary! 

Thanks to Ms Rina Frances for a successful semester in music!