About adaptivelearnin
I am an educational professional who is passionate about needs analysis and materials creation to enhance student learning of all ages. I hope the content I share here will be of value to you in some way. Opinions are my own and are not those of my employer.
Join me at my session for the 2013 TESOL International Conference, "ESL Instruction: Developing Your Skills to Become a Master Conductor", March 21 10:00 AM in room C144. My presentation focuses on listening, speaking and pronunciation music teaching techniques incorporated with ESL teaching. This is not your typical music/ESL presentation with chants and songs. Be prepared to use your vocal chords, diaphragm, lungs, mouth muscles, and arms like you have never used before in pronunciation, speaking and language instruction. Learn how to use music conducting skills in the language classroom to better facilitate language acquisition. Learn how to use music performance skills (vocal and instrumental) to better facilitate language learning. Be prepared to laugh and have fun. I look forward to meeting you and working with you.
Thank you so much for the flattering reblog! I just read your post about the use of Twitter for professional development. I hadn’t ever thought of it that way. Nice blog!
Posted by Facetious Firecracker | July 7, 2012, 11:12 amYou are welcome. I thought your post was awesome and so true. I’m a former music teacher that is now teaching English as a Second Language. I completely relate to your blog post and had to re-blog it. I hope it gets you traffic too because it was an awesome post. I had those thoughts when I taught music. Music teaching is the hardest job. Most people think it is a breeze. Other teachers get down time to sit, relax plan, etc. When you teach music you are on show literally for the entire work day with little down time. What most other teachers don’t understand or realize is that when you teach music you have to be extra energetic, moving around the classroom, very active and not stopping for hour after hour. They don’t realize that you have to be really active and overly energetic to get more out of your students. Students perform music better when you are very energetic. It is rewarding but very exhausting. Most people think it is an easy job that doesn’t require much expertise which is completely the opposite from what it really entails. Thanks for writing a post with honesty and clarity.
Posted by adaptivelearnin | July 7, 2012, 1:18 pm