I think of sight reading as guided discovery. The teacher gives the classroom sheet music, the key, and then they read it without ever hearing it before. This gives the classroom an opportunity to discover the hard parts of the piece, the difficult intervals, the pretty sections, etc. Also, then, they can discover what's important to work on, and they can work on it on their own - without the teacher helping too much, except to offer guidance if they don't know how to fix said problem. In a choir class, sight-reading is one of the most important skills for students to have, so guided learning will really come in handy.
Thursday, November 10
Blog Post 2, Classroom Design
I don't know if I found Vygotsky's ZPD theory to be the most valuable theory we've learned, but I definitely always regard it as a very important and practical theory that I will use in the future. I thought guided discovery was one of the most important teaching method that I will use in my classroom, so I'm glad the two matched up (look at my last blog post for my explanation as to why Vygotsky's theory goes well with guided discovery). I typically like the operant conditioning theory more than Vgyotsky's, but I don't think a teaching method based off of this theory would be the best for my classroom, because I think it would focus too much on rewards and not as much on intrinsic motivation - or at least, I think it would have the potential to do so.
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I also think guided discovery would most useful in my classroom. Since my content area is art, it is really important for students to experience the materials through hands on activities. I really like how you incorporated the guided discovery into this lesson. It gives them the chance to work on it on their own and see what they might need to give more attention too.
ReplyDeleteOperant conditioning doesn't have to only involve extrinsic rewards. It can also just simply be a cue that signals for the class to do something, whether they class does it or not, they still know what they SHOULD be doing because of the conditioned cue. I think your example about how sight reading being a form of guided discovery is a very good idea, but I also think that the expository method could also be beneficial towards sight reading because you would give the piece a context, and inform the students of what is valuable to focus on.
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