Here is a list of questions I will be answering in this post on how portray myself as a scholar. Who are you as a scholar within/beyond/through music education? Provide a snapshot of you right now as a scholar making reference to at least two previous assignment (with links). In what ways have you changed as a scholar (within/beyond/through music education) since beginning your time at JMU? Finally, where do you hope to be as a scholar by the time you start student teaching? How will you get there? (Please be specific and set goals.) As a Scholar, I feel like I have a lot of growing to do (which is okay), I think I could do a lot more learning from other music scholars before I consider myself a good one. One reason I think of it like this is I get confused in discussions often because I hear so many good points that I don't know what is good and what is bad. The weekly twitter discussions we have really make me struggle and think a lot, I believe that is the goal but sometimes I just don't know how to respond. In the past when we would have twitter discussions we would post about them and discuss our ideas and how they caused us to think and respond to them I will be posting an example under here. Another thing I have been learning a lot about is teaching to individuals with different goals. Of course, all students are not the same so the goals of students should be sporadic when it comes to who wants to achieve what. The students, however, I have found out sometimes have the same goals, maybe it’s because the influences on them have affected them as a body sometimes, or they see what their friends want to do and change according to them. Sometimes though, students set goals that they want to achieve but they won't be able to achieve them as fast as others, this is where I think it would be important to set checkpoints along the way to help the students track their development towards their goal. I think it is very important that we set things up in our educational systems to be the most inclusive we can be towards special needs students or students who learn stronger in uncommon areas. I cover this subject more in my link below about special needs education in the classroom. Where I hope to be as a scholar by the time I get to student teach. I hope to be the one who gets to foster these difficult questions to help others develop and think, and I hope to be able to continue these twitter discussions and help other music educators develop through these difficult thoughts and discussions we have everyday as educators. I also hope to be able to apply some of these solutions and ideas to my real world classroom experience so I can see the actual result of these ideas, weather it should be positive or negative it should be thrilling to be able to get some hands on feedback for once in the field.
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Allsup, R. E. (2016). Remixing the classroom: toward an open philosophy of music education. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1. In my general school classes I was given standardised test that seemed as they were trying to label me as average and in some cases under average. I would struggle taking my standardised tests and in some cases it didn't help me at all with the understanding of the material and showing how well I understood it. In fact, I remember I failed my Algebra 1 SOL but a few years later I passed my Algebra 2 SOL in advanced? I feel like the standardised testing label is your marching band assessment competitions, this did nothing good for me because we always got 3rd or 2nd place to schools with funding large enough to have a general effect score that was much larger than ours. That usually being one of our lowest scores because we did not have the money to buy things we needed for the band sometimes. I think what is important at competition is the quality of experience you get to have as a musician and the vast amount of opportunities that students got to have, like maybe they could bring in some guest artist to teach masterclasses on marching, for example. 2. Basically what this next question is covering from what I see, it's discussing if it is important that we cover information that might not be used in the process of teaching most relevant things. My philosophy on the subject at hand would be that even in the case of learning something that would not be applicable except for specific things like scales, I think it teaches you the process of learning something and committing to it through repetition and healthy practice. Also the subject of my students not loving what I love is fine, I'm here to give them a good musical experience and if they don't love it or even like it then I might try to change things more in their opinion to what they would want to do. But not to much to the point where it would affect how much my other students like it. Not everybody is going to want to be a famous musician after they graduate from my school, but I know that every kid will have a an opportunity to have a good musical experience before they graduate. 3. In regards to Authority Allsup (2016) writes, "In the context, it appears that power and fatherhood are key terms when referring to authority:" (pg. 13). I think it is important that he Acknowledges authority and how it is relevant to him as a music educator and what ways he might be able to use it in classes. He then covers Empathy by writing, "I have said that we are more than the music we make"(pg. 23). This makes me think that he sees his art as important, but also being a human being and caring is very important as well as an educator. For Liberty, he writes,"Western artists attempted to stretch the limits of this interpretive function"(pg. 30). This is basically the ideas of the western artists stretching out the ideas and interpretations of the music that has been created for other purposes. For outcome he says," We are more than the makers of music; we are made by the music we make."(pg. 11). This is basically describing how music can make us and better our outcome of what kind of person we are in the future based on our musical experiences. |
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