Rocky Mountain

Rocky Mountain

We discussed how to go about teaching a song and teaching children to sing.

For example the 3 aspects of “Rocky Mountain”:

• Learning the song – VOCAL

• Accompaniment- INSTRUMENTAL

• movement possibilities, e.g. Actions – PHYSICAL

JANE FREZEE- ‘artful, mindful, playful’

A piece can be playful between the accompaniments and physical… but it still needs to be mindful and artful in the way it is executed. This would allow children to be creative and have fun within music as long as they are given freedom to do so but they need to also think artfully and mindfully about their compositions or how they perform a song which they are learning.

How can I ensure this in the classroom? From professional practice, I tried to incorporate all these aspects

How would I teach Rocky Mountain to a class?

We discussed how musical education can take a few different perspectives or viewpoints.

• KODALY APPROACH- oral training

• ORFF APPROACH- language and movement

• As a teacher I would use aspects of both approaches to teaching music: allows a holistic approach while being able to focus on key objectives in the music curriculum, e.g. in the national curriculum in KS1 children should ‘use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes’ (DfE 2013:2)

--- SO for example: learning a chant will make use of oral training; the teacher should make use of repetition and modelling etc. (see …… for teaching music effectively) and will also use language and movement to explore what the chant may mean; whether it has a deeper meaning or not, and put actions to the words to deepen the level of understanding and to solidify the children’s learning.

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