Updated Microteaching Topic: Introduction to the Guitar

Some feedback I received from my guitar microteaching lesson was to shorten some content so that I could ensure that my teaching pace was slowed down to fit into the 10 minute window while also emphasizing vocabulary and reviewing the different parts of the guitar. If this were an in-person lesson, one way to address the issue of not everyone having a guitar would be to pass my guitar around the class so that students can hold it and make connections between my presentation and embodied learning.

For my updated microteaching guitar lesson plan, I have chosen to omit the section on teaching the C major scale. I had also intended to play a short song at the beginning and end of the lesson, however, I did not do this during the actual lesson because of the short time constraint. 

Following along on the power point , I will be omitting slide 4. 

Subject: Introduction to the Guitar	Grade:	Date: Oct 14/20	Duration: 10 mins
Lesson Overview (What this lesson is about)	This lesson will provide students an introduction to the guitar.
Class Profile   Construct a hypothetical class profile, in which you specify how many students are in your class, their learning challenges, and their levels of English proficiency	EDCP 342A: Curriculum and Instruction in Secondary Mathematics (~27 post-secondary students)
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.
Language Objectives   (What new language the students will learn)	·        Pitch: how high or low a musical sound is. ·        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.

Materials and Equipment Needed for this Lesson

Guitar

	Lesson Stages	Learning Activities	Time Allotted
1.	Warm-up   Get students’ attention, connect to previous knowledge and explain why the topic is important to learn.	·        Ask if anyone has picked up and tried to play a guitar before.	1 minute
2.	Presentation   Teach the new content and language.	·        Show students the different parts of the guitar.         ·        Name the pitch associated with each string.         ·        Reading tabs.         ·        Reading chords.	5 minutes
3.	Practice and Production       Practice, reinforcement, and extension of the new content and language.	·        Practice reading tabs.         ·        Practice reading chords.	2 minutes
4.	Closure	·        Summary of vocabulary from Language Objectives.         ·        Open the floor to questions.	2 minutes