Throughout this week’s lecture we focused on creative partnerships, these allow close relationships to form between specialists in the creative industries and teachers. By having different creative partnerships will improve not only the teacher’s skills but will encourage children to be more involved in different creative subjects (Education Scotland, 2019).
Within the music input we looked at Figure Notes and BBC Ten Pieces (Figurenotes, 2019). These resources are extremely helpful to allow children to gradually understand how music works, how it’s read and how it is meant to sound. Figure Notes provided printable sheets with coloured music notations that matched the instrument that the children were playing. This was very easy to follow as you simply matched the colours, in a class I feel this would be very engaging for children whilst allowing them to have a sense of achievement after completing the sheet. Figure Notes have also partnered with BBC Ten Pieces which allows children to be exposed to different genres of music such as classical. I would definitely use this resource within a classroom as children can take a lead on their learning and can learn at their own pace.
In the afternoon we participated in a dance input. This week we continued to make a dance routine from the ten basic dance skills. We added dance moves into the previous dance routine and performed it in front of our peers. I feel this would be a very fun and engaging lesson to teach within a class as it is very much child lead which will allow the children to have a sense of accomplishment. Next, our teacher gave us Scottish pictures as starting points and we were to create a dance move relating to that specific picture. Our groups was the Falkirk Wheel, we decided to make a wheel motion with our arms to portray the wheel moving. This was then added into our final dance routine. This input allowed me to see how important it is to let children lead their own learning and the results they can have are endless.
The link I formed between these two workshops was that by starting off with simple music notations such as using shapes and by using the 10 basic dance moves children can grasp an understanding for the subject before moving onto something more complex.
References:
Education Scotland. (2019). Creative Learning Networks | Learning resources | National Improvement Hub. [online] Available at: https://education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/creative-learning-networks# [Accessed 15 Nov. 2019].
Figurenotes. (2019). Home – Figurenotes. [online] Available at: https://www.figurenotes.org/ [Accessed 15 Nov. 2019].
