Next week, I will be microteaching an introduction to the guitar.
Lesson plan adapted from LLED 360 Lesson Plan Template:
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Subject: Introduction to the
Guitar |
Grade: |
Date: Oct 14/20 |
Duration: 10 mins |
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Lesson Overview (What this lesson is about) |
This lesson will provide students
an introduction to the guitar. |
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Content
Objectives (What
the students will know) |
By
the end of the lesson, students should be able to: ·
Identify different parts of the
guitar. ·
Define pitch and correctly label note
associated with each (open) string. ·
Read chord charts and tabs.
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Language
Objectives
(What
new language the students will learn) |
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Pitch: how high or low a musical
sound is. ·
Scale: any set of musical notes
ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch. ·
Tab: Short for tablature, which is a
form of writing down music for the guitar, which mainly uses numbers instead
of music notation. ·
Chord: Set of harmonic pitches/frequencies
consisting of multiple notes heard simultaneously. ·
Octave: series of 8 notes occupying
the interval between two notes. |
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Materials
and Equipment Needed for this Lesson
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Guitar
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Lesson Stages |
Learning
Activities
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Time Allotted |
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1. |
Warm-up
Get students’ attention,
connect to previous knowledge and explain why the topic is important to
learn.
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Ask
if anyone has picked up and tried to play a guitar before/familiarity with music theory. ·
Play
a short song (Serene of Water from OoT) |
1 minute |
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2. |
Presentation
Teach the new content and
language. |
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Show students the different parts of the guitar ·
Name the pitch associated with each string ·
Introduce the C Major note scale ·
Reading tabs ·
Reading chords
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5 minutes |
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3. |
Practice and Production
Practice, reinforcement, and
extension of the new content and language.
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Practice
reading tabs ·
Practice
reading chords
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2 minutes |
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4. |
Closure
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Open
the floor to questions ·
Play
a closing song? (Lost Woods)
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2 minutes |
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KaEka-xEBx7ovP7ZsFU5e6-_D3TG_-QD/view?usp=sharing
Good! Looks very interesting. On the timings: are parts 2 and 3 planned to take 7 minutes altogether? Any further breakdown of that timing?
ReplyDeleteOops, I missed that from transferring this information over; just made that change now.
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Although we had a problem of screen sharing, you did a great job of sending the link right away and started from there. Overall the lesson is well organized, the amount of info was just about right. Good work!
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Positive attributes:
- students were engaged and asked questions
- you adapted to difficulties on the fly
- allowed for Q&A
Possible improvements:
- choose a bit less content to ensure that teaching is paced a bit slower (lots to learn for non-musicians)
- make sure camera angles show what you are doing with both right and left hands at the appropriate times
- write down key terms somewhere so that we can learn vocabulary more confidently (ie. frets, neck, etc.)
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Comments: A great overview of the basics of guitar. Some more engagement from students would be great (difficult without everyone having guitars I know), but otherwise, very well presented!
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Perhaps due to time restraints, didn't spend a lot of time reviewing parts of a guitar and other jargon. Overall Matt was very knowledgeable and spoke clearly. Not sure how I would resolve this but learner involvement was low (hard to fix without giving us all access to guitars).
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I was unable to share screen to show the ppt I wanted, but was able to link everyone to a virtual ppt I had uploaded. 10 minutes is a short amount of time and I felt that I had rushed through my presentation and spoke fast making it potentially difficult to hear what I am saying. It was also hard to show how I was holding the guitar and stuff with a laptop webcam.