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shwagginonyou · 7 years

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Wed 18 Jan 17

it’s 10! i am resolved to sleep by 11pm tonight. literally was so sleepy all day

umm ya. wednesdays pretty chill, didn’t have any class until like, 11am for myp music. it was a little frustrating again today, not because of the noise level, but rather (almost) the lack of it (ALMOST). what that means is, in myp they were basically continuing to work on their song composition, making instrumental accompaniment for their lyrics at this stage. the thing was, they were using garage band on the ipads, and they were told to use headphones so they wouldn’t distract each other. it basically made it so hard for the teachers to see where they were in their progress because they were super shy about sharing it. i tried to walk around and ask the students how their progress was going, but it’s such a weird thing to teach cuz it’s very up to their own opinions regarding choosing melody and chords. idk, i also felt like the way the class was set up just wasn’t very efficient, since the students were mostly new to the garage band app and got distracted easily by all the superfluous functions. i think the students would have made a lot more efficient progress if the teacher kinda did it with them step by step, from making a beat to giving them options of chord progressions to choose from. but ANYWAYS, i’m not even really teaching this class so it’s just more things for me to think about in the future haha

idk why but suddenly my page got so much bigger but it’s still at regular zoom. also jess has like super pump up music going on and here i am trying to unwind from the day lolol.

in the other myp class, they were finishing up their newspaper articles so again i couldn’t really help out too much. in general, i just wonder what the teacher does when all her students are doing like individual work. in my opinion, a class period is so short that i would be maximizing my instruction time and personal interaction with the students, rather then having them all literally stare at screens and doing their own thing. it just all seems so.. unmusical. idk

for the pyp1 class, i got to teach them the let’s go round in a circle song, which surprisingly went really well! :) i actually get like ALL my ideas from stuff i did in my k-8 practicum 2 years ago lol. i feel like i haven’t learned anything else practical about teaching in elementary school since then, but ms. ladendorf was freaking awesome, so i feel pretty confident even with my limited experience. there were a lot of things i remember observing from my hopewell co-op that has been working well here too. especially a volunteer at younger grades to “fix” the circle quietly each time they sit down. ugh such a good idea. it’s really encouraging when the things you learn about in school actually work, and the students enjoy it, and you feel like you’re doing something right LOL. trust me, that is not the case in every lesson

and ya, spent the rest of the day in 4th grade again. i’ve been thinking about like, asking dr. conte or ms. ana if there is someway to “record” what i’ve been doing in the 4th grade class. cuz i really feel like i invest a lot of time in there and it would possibly be a good thing for me to prove that i learned a lot from being in a classroom outside of music, getting experience that other music students may not have. i also spend outside classroom hours grading their various activities and homework assignments, and like, you just don’t do that in music class haha. idk, i don’t want to be like, hello give me the credit i deserve for doing all this extra stuff. but basically that’s what i mean :3

i’ve been getting a lot of practice in the kitchen! made some (packaged) minestrone soup and (UNPACKAGED) salad with mixed veggies. bear in mind we have no microwave!! it’s been nice to have control of how healthy to eat, how much to eat, when to eat and all that. i think that if i were slightly more motivated, i could do a lot with fixing up really efficient and healthy lifestyles here, with literally all the hours to kill haha. but baby steps, as with errthangg

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