Hi Barb, this is a great tip - would you mind posting/embedding the video up above us in the discussion forum (e-mail me if you don't know how) - that way the resource won't get lost here on the wall and I can share it with everyone during the week in review! Thanks so much for joining the discussion! Ry:)
This year I did something in my classroom I have never done before. And it turned out so well, I am wondering why I never grabbed onto this idea in the 30 years I have been teaching.
I love music. The very first song I can remember is Sam Cooke’s “You send me,” a 1957-release. I was a year old when it was on the radio.
This year, my media studies class was scheduled for Period One, 8:30 a.m. Second semester is particularly deadly with Grade-12-itis. The kids are cocky but lethargic, sometimes sullen and many thinking they are closer to graduating than they really are. These grade 12s would straggle in, half-awake, blinking in the light as if they had just crawled out of a cave. Part way through the term I decided to do something about this lethargy, which was spreading through the class like a sleeping sickness.
I went back to the personal inventory index cards they had completed on the first day of class. I picked their favorite music and musicians from the cards. Then I started to play the music they said they liked, finding a way to tie the song into the lesson of the day. I always write the agenda for the class on the chalkboard at the front of the room. This time, I wrote the Song of the Day first, then the agenda.
BarbGanias
If you haven't seen this . . . so many "teachable moments" within this clip!
http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music...
Sep 20, 2011
Ryan Goble
Sep 20, 2011
Mike Gange
Suite Success: From A-Plus to A-Sharp
By Mike Gange
This year I did something in my classroom I have never done before. And it turned out so well, I am wondering why I never grabbed onto this idea in the 30 years I have been teaching.
I love music. The very first song I can remember is Sam Cooke’s “You send me,” a 1957-release. I was a year old when it was on the radio.
This year, my media studies class was scheduled for Period One, 8:30 a.m. Second semester is particularly deadly with Grade-12-itis. The kids are cocky but lethargic, sometimes sullen and many thinking they are closer to graduating than they really are. These grade 12s would straggle in, half-awake, blinking in the light as if they had just crawled out of a cave. Part way through the term I decided to do something about this lethargy, which was spreading through the class like a sleeping sickness.
I went back to the personal inventory index cards they had completed on the first day of class. I picked their favorite music and musicians from the cards. Then I started to play the music they said they liked, finding a way to tie the song into the lesson of the day. I always write the agenda for the class on the chalkboard at the front of the room. This time, I wrote the Song of the Day first, then the agenda.
you can find the rest of the article here:
http://swimminginmedia.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/suite-success/
Aug 16, 2014