Midterm Flashcards
(22 cards)
What was the quote from Mahatma Ghandi about practice and preaching?
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching
What are the three primary qualities/characteristics of music teachers?
Dispositions
Skills
Knowledge
Do/should professors address prescriptive lists of knowledge/skills for their students?
“Such a process of developing a prescription for effective music teaching would be no different than to suggest a doctor diagnose an illness and prescribe medication w/o taking a complete medical history of the patient.”
What are the differences among content, curriculum, pedagogical, and knowledge of learners.
Content knowledge is knowing the subject
Curriculum knowledge includes the full range of programs designed for the teaching of particular subjects
Pedagogical knowledge is where all four realms of knowledge intersect
Knowledge of learns is understanding your students
What are the personal skills ascribed to teachers?
Coping skills, time management skills, leadership skills, planning skills, and the ability to set priorities for the well-functioning classroom
What are the three primary domains of dispositions?
Intellectual
Cultural
Moral
Are dispositions strictly inherent, or can they be developed?
They can be developed
What are the components/makeup of pedagogical content knowledge?
Knowledge of how particular subject matter topics, problems, and issues can be organized, represented and adapted to the diverse interest and abilities of learners, and then presented for instruction
Dispositions connect ___ and ___ to ___.
a teacher’s knowledge and skills to the actual actions that must take place to facilitate effective learning
What is the milieu?
The general atmosphere in the classroom, affected by many interactive variables (including experiences in the classroom and influences from within the school and community)
What are some of the challenges for American music education?
Student involvement drops drastically between elementary and secondary levels
The outcome shifts from informance-emphasis at the elem level to performance-emphasis at the secondary level
Who first convinced American school admins to include music instruction in public schools?
Lowell Mason, 1838
Who was a leader of the Progressive Education movement?
John Dewey
Woodward suggested that music educators engage students in creative musical decision-making by offering opportunities for…
ensuring a safe environment to make mistakes and encouraging risk-taking and divergent thinking on musical problems
What makes diverse contemporary curriculum?
non-traditional opportunities such as music composition, electronic music, popular music performance ensembles, music appreciation classes, and world music ensembles
What did Pestalozzi believe?
That the only true foundation of human instruction was that acquired through direct participation
How is teaching different form acting?
- Actors have a different relationship with their audience than teachers have with their students.
- Actors have a different relationship with their ‘content’ than teachers have with the content they teach.
How is teaching similar to acting?
Effective professionals of both types deliver material so the audience, or class, will take notice and be affected intellectually ad emotionally.
A teacher’s enthusiasm enhances…
student learning
What is the source of a teacher’s intrinsic rewards?
Having successfully facilitated students with gaining a skill or an understanding that supports those students’ growing musicianship.
Development of teacher delivery skill is similar to that of musical technique because…
For both, the primary goal is to communicate ideas with an ‘audience’
Teachers can develop delivery skills through…
working regularly on skill development.
