10    Minute lesson reflection.

Objective: Students will show an understanding of how to write a minor scale using the musical alphabet and standard notation.

Objective: Students will show an understanding of how to play the minor using their smart phones.

Initiation

·        Review whole steps and half steps in regards to the major scale

·        The layout of the minor scale

Student Learning Activities:

·        Sing a major scale using solfeggio.

·        Using the website “virtual keyboard” (VK). I will play along with the students while they sing.

·        Students will review major scale using their smartphone using a downloaded keyboard app.

·        Then compare what they play to a worksheet.

·        I will talk about a minor scale and show students, what it looks like when we play it using the VK website.

·        Ask students what is the feeling they get when they hear a minor scale.

·        Play it again, and ask students what scale degrees changed.

·        Ask students to play the natural minor scale along on  their phones.

·        On the work sheet students will write out a minor scale.

The reflection

I felt like my lesson was planned well and the execution was good.

The outcomes were exactly what I wanted and planned for.

I really think tapping into the different modalities of the learning process is important.

The students performed, sang, wrote, communicated and listened.

I planned the lesson for how students learn differently.

Students process information differently so planning a lesson with that in mind can be challenging at first but I have made it the cornerstone of most my lesson plans.

It’s a lesson based on differentiation without making any student feel that their needs are being left behind.

What I could have done better….

·       More independent student learning that had more of a student role.

·       Less talking on my part.

With more than 10 minutes I could have…

·       I could have had students research a song in a minor key to present to the class.

·       I could have students write a 2 measure melody in a minor key with specific composition techniques in place.

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