Development
LinkUp is a program that links Carnegie hall orchestras together with schools. I was the music teacher during the link up ‘Artists in the Schools” program. I taught 2-6th grade students how to play the recorder. I started students from ground zero (no prior experience for students) to playing “Ode to Joy” on the recorders. Each grade had different lessons as were physiologically and academically developmentally appropriate. K-1 sang and acted out several songs that I taught them which were developmentally appropriate (Piaget’s Theory of developmentally appropriate education.) The final hurrah was getting to participate in a huge on-stage concert with the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra accompanying our K-6. What a grand delight to see the development of students from not knowing how to play recorder at all to a quality performance.
Pearson (1995). Piaget’s theory. Retrieved from: http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_slavin_edpsych_8/38/9951/2547688.cw/content/
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