Wodonga CRT Support Network July Meeting Mintues

Date: Thursday, 23rd 2009, held at Wodonga South Primary School
Focus: Music by Brett Gilbee
Discussed: How can a CRT demonstrate confidence in the music room for a day of work?
Suggestions: Pretend this is your room. Look around the room and focus on the following:
- What can I use?
- How might I use it?
- What is the body of knowledge I want to demonstrate?
- Outcome – does not necessarily mean music.
- What is available?
- Beat in time to nursery rhymes using instruments.
- Use the percussion instruments.
- Dance to the beat.
- Teach dances that you might know.
- Teach drama through music.
- Take a simple nursery rhythm eg. Twinkle Twinkle little star and get students to sing it in rap, opera, jazz or rock.
- Be organised and find your own music and resources such as – Bow to your partner, Hocky pocky, Twist to your partner etc.
- Think about your current view of the situation and work towards a better view of the situation.
- Utilise the pentatonic scale – use sharps and flats with rhythm and beat.
- Use your teaching pedagogy and learning practice.
- Use the xylophones (remove the F & B notes) get groups of children to play a rhythm pattern. Eg. ta ta titi ta 1 2 3 & 4
- Demonstrate by clapping the rhythm pattern to the children first.
- Then get the children to all play their different rhythm pattern all at the same time.
Introduction of percussion
- Allow children to play a range of instruments to a rhythm pattern.
- Swap instruments.
- Then count 4 beats of a particular rhythm pattern.
- Check for silence encouraging all students to finish together.
- Play a rhythm pattern – using soft medium loud.
- Eg 2 beats soft, next 2 are a little louder, next 2 are louder then final 2 are soft.
General music lesson discussion
- Verbalise a positive attitude that we are going to work well together etc.
- Connect with students.
- Use open ended questions when talking to the students. Talk to students about how much music is in their life and how/when they use it.

Next Meeting - September 3rd 2009 at Wodonga South Primary School. Leon Price will be demonstration Blue Earth Games.

A huge thanks to Jacqui for typing these minutes up for us. (THANKS JACQUI and GAIL)