This study was to analyze music class activities in an elementary school in order to find quantitative and qualitative characteristics of music class activities. The objects of the investigation were two teachers in Daegu. We analyzed how they made us...
This study was to analyze music class activities in an elementary school in order to find quantitative and qualitative characteristics of music class activities. The objects of the investigation were two teachers in Daegu. We analyzed how they made use of time in their music class through quantitative analysis and studied for the qualities of music class activities through qualitative analysis. The findings are as follows.
First, music class acivities in an elementary school are not student-centered. Our analysis has found that student-centered time was much more than teacher-centered time in music class activities. In a quantitative respect, music class could be regarded as being run by student-centered activities. However, from the perspective of qualitative analysis, music class activities are still teacher-centered and run by verbal methods of teaching.
Secondly, music class activities are much influenced by the teacher. Two teacher tend to teach what he/she in familiar with in more detail.
musical character, considering student's attitude and teacher's methods.
Thirdly , teaching methods were used without regard to contents of the lessons.
According to music school curriculum, it's desirable to give lessons using various methods such as one-on-one lesson or group study.
The conclusion about the quality of music class activities in an elementary school is as follows.
First, the distribution of class activity time was not effective overall. At introductory part, students were taught well what that are learning, but not fully stimulated by the teachers. Various activities, which are suitable for musical concepts and songs in curriculum, are done at the development part of the instructions. Once class objectives of the dat are decided, teachers should decide what type of activities would be suitable for the objective. At the concluding part, the teachers finished lessons roughly in most cases, being pressed for time. It's desirable for teachers to check whether the objective was achieved or not at the concluding part. In addition there should ve more wats to check about the objectives.
Secondly, united activities of education are hardly achieved in music class. In the case of singing class, students just only sang without any other activities. There were few united activities, such as singing to the rhythm or singing with instrumental accompaniment.
Thirdly, verbal interaction was better than non-verbal interaction, but not very good. The teachers just asked simple 'yes or no' questions for the most part. Interaction in classroom was done by the teacher's one-way instructions. The students had lots of musical activities just because they were in music class. When the students in singing made mistake a song, the teachers just kept teaching without giving them full explanation about the mistakes. In this case, it is not easy for students to have musical aesthetic experience.