Study Unit 1

 

 

 

 

 

Part 1: How are you feeling; how has your week been? – In general or just with regard to your studies. What inhibited your learning this week? Would you care to elaborate?

My week was a bit rough will all the school work and the studies in between but if I can get trough that then everything is possible.  The thing that inhibited my learning this weak was that there was just too much thing to do. Some week there is not too much to do and other week there are more thing to get done.

Part 2: What new things did you become aware of when working through this study unit’s content? What concept/element/idea was most significant for you in this study unit?

The thing that I become aware of was the different stage to teach the different music skills or concept to the different age group. That made senses that you can teach little child to master the skill of reading music if they can even speak correctly. The concept that was the most significant was the fact that you can teach learners in a musical environment. Some child just learn better this way because it is not that ‘boring’ as the normal way of teaching.

Part 3: What is your opinion about the value of the content of this study unit for your teaching practise?

I think the value of the content is very good. For me as a teacher that is not very good with music, this will help me a lot so I can teach my children to the best of my knowledge even though I am not good at the subject myself. I really also like learning the content for myself and for future use as well.

Individual reflection:

1. Would you please describe your confidence in your current knowledge and skills to teach music through movement in the Foundation Phase as you start your LSKM 221 journey? In your answer, please also refer to your confidence to integrate music into your teaching practice currently.

My confidence in my current knowledge and skills to teach music through movement in Foundation Phase is a little, as I am a teacher how as experience in teaching with the little children. I don’t have all his knowledge and experience to integrate music into my teaching practice.

2. Both music and physical education play important roles in the holistic development of the young learner. However, if you have to choose between incorporating Music education OR Physical education in the Foundation Phase curriculum to meet the holistic development needs of learners, which would you choose? In your answer, please explain which would be the best choice to ensure the opportunity for the holistic development of the learner and motivate your answer.

I am a teacher that teach physical education so I see a lot of thing. In my point of view I think Music education is the better choose. The reason for this is that children of today don’t really enjoy physical education because they are unfit due to Covid. When you play music during physical education children tend to enjoy it more. So I would say Music education is to better option to holistic development. We can teacher children a song about months of the year and days of the week, children will remember the song with all the information, as where you only teach them the information that they might remember it. They think it is more boring without music.

Collaborative reflection:

We agreed that it is very good for the children because some of the children learn and remember more informations while they are learning with music education.