Sunday, 15 February 2009
ICT and Music
Like most teachers I imagine, my first reaction with music is 'its not my strongest subject'. I enjoy listening to it, but am aware nobody else would gain any sort of pleasure from hearing me create music! It's important to remember though, that this self-awareness is only brought about during late primary school, through to secondary school, and therefore children tend not to judge you. They will quite happily sing at the tops of their voices, regardless of how it sounds to everyone else, or play an insturment totally tunelessly. Like I said, as adults, we hold back with fear of embarassing ourselves, something children tend not to think about.
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I find your point about self awareness in primary school interesting, do children really lack self awareness? Your right in such that they are generally less afraid of making a fool of themselves, but i'm sure that self awareness is there a bit. Perhaps to be better teachers we should be less afraid to make fools of ourselves too? One of my mentor teachers once said to me, "The most important thing to be as a teacher is not afraid to look and act completely ridiculous.". Im sure we can all learn something from that statement!
ReplyDeleteYES very true Tom, thats what i do at Uni everday!!!
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