Week 6 - Orff with Jim Coyle

I got to experience the world of online class today as I was home sick with the flu. In today's class Jim gave us amazing advice and expertise on how to teach Orff and how to make it super engaging and interesting for the students. Jim ran the class through an Orff activity similar to the ones we have done in previous weeks only this week the class got boomwhackers! After this activity Jim spoke about how he likes to discipline a class with silent hand signals with psychology behind being then the child is volunteering and joining in on settling down as if it's an activity. I really like this concept and will be using this within my teaching/tutoring. As a tutor of one on one and group lessons I have realised that settling children down with a raised voice often doesn't work. I found this piece of advice from Jim to be mind blowing and very smart! I have taken a mental note of that process. 

Jim also spoke about the importance of a music roll when marking attendance. It is the perfect ice breaker for students with performance anxiety as its give them a couple seconds of musical lime light in an ultra supportive and fun environment. It also helps the teacher remember the names of the students. And its the perfect activity to get the non musical kids involved in something musical. What I took out of today's class is that you need to work smarter not harder with the students to make discipline more effective and to find meaningful teaching practices that resonates with all types of students musical and non musical. 

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