This week I’m doing well. Things at work are busy but I’m managing everything between my studies, work and extra-curricular activities.

Music activities for various lesson phases, the flow of a music lesson and assessment, how to incorporate games, arts and movement integration strategies, assessment strategies, various teaching methods for presenting and planning a music lesson and learning activities which promote active engagement, collaborative and exploration learning. Basic principles for planning a non-music lesson or music lesson with music activities, transformation through music education, characteristics of a well-planned music lesson. Music lessons about music elements and concepts, music lessons about the expressive qualities of music, music lessons about different music styles: Introduction, Teaching and learning phase, conclusion and assessment.

I feel that this study unit gave me a lot of useful information that I can make use of one day in my own classroom. It gave me information regarding the presenting and planning of a lesson, assessment, us of games and teaching and learning.

The new HOD does not emphasise or prioritise the assessment of music activities to any degree. “Assessment in the arts is often overlooked or avoided in the early childhood years because it appears to be incompatible with a child-centered, process-oriented philosophy which is characteristic of education for young children”.

Assessment is there for teachers to monitor learner progress and to see if the learners achieved the aim of the lesson. Remedial strategies and monitor progress, identify concepts/skills that need to be improved on, without this teachers and learners would not be able to identify issues or improve where it is needed. Assessment can also be used as an assistant tool for the learning process and as a means through which learners can reflect on their own learning.