Week One: Teaching channel videos

The first video I watch was called, Building Language skills by talking about art. In this video the featured teachers were holding a workshop for other teachers about an arts based lesson that targeted language skills for ELL students. The teachers encouraged students to talk about the objects in the art work, in order to get a grasp of prepositions. First the student talked about the work. Then in groups students used prepositions like, beside, next to, and under. After that student wrote their observation using a sentence structure (Valle- Diazm, 2015). I thought this was a very interesting lesson. On the website the worksheets and supplemental packets were provided, however I don’t think it would be to hart to take the basic concept of the lesson and transfer it to other art pieces and other age groups.

The second video I watch was about a teacher who took his students to an art museum in order to talk about a lesson he had done on Greek mythology. This video was called, Visiting a museum.  The idea was since most of his student came from low social economic backgrounds and had not been to an art museum before, this activity would broaden their life experience. The teacher had the student work in pairs in order to encourage discussion about art. The teacher in this video did a good job of setting a clear assignment for the students to work towards while looking at the art.  He also set up clear expectations on behavior in a new setting (Cooper, 2015). I like the idea of getting the student out in the community, however, if you are not doing a lesson on Greek mythology this could be a limiting exercise.

The third video I picked called, Music and moods: Temp, pitch, dynamics, was about a music teacher who was teaching first graders rhythm. This teacher used one song to talk about changing the emotional content of the song through rhythm tempo, duration, and pitch. The teacher also talked about the creative process of learning, creating and reflecting. I personally do not understand musical terms at all, so I was really impressed with the level of understanding these students had (Nola, 2015).

In the video, Modern nursery rhymes: a musical, a music teacher taught sixth graders music by having the students create their own musical. In this video the teacher was a music teacher (Thrasher, 2015).

 

Reference:

Cooper, D. (2015). Visiting a museum. Malibu, CA: Teaching Channel.

Nola, A. (2015). Music and moods: Tempo, pitch, Dynamics. Los Angeles, CA: Teaching Channel.

Thrasher, C. (2015). Modern nursery rhymes: A musical. Teaching Channel.

Valle- Diazm.(2015). Building Language skills by talking about art. Los Angeles, CA: Teaching Channel.