Key Idea's in Music Education

Over this semester I have throughly enjoyed learning The Orff method. In conjunction with learning about this in class I have all researched through my own sources to further my knowledge and understanding of what the benefits are and the advantages it can give children. For me the biggest challenge I initially had was being able to convey clear instructions with out talking and explaining what to do and the idea of body movement/visuals being the instructions. This really challenged my thinking and at first I was very skeptical of it. It wasn't until I tried some of the class concepts in my guitar tuition with own students that I realised that this method really does work and is super fun and effective. This is a great quote from a journal article I looked at over the semester which talks about children/Orff learning: "The child is personally engaged with the music, the movement, the people involved, the ideas, the anticipation and reasoning, the logic and imagining, the sati...

  Name: Antony Murdica Degree: Bachelor of Music Education (Jazz Performance, Guitar) My tutoring business:  https://uppernorthshoreguitartutoring.com.au Why I want to teach: I am very passionate about music education as I believe it is few forms of education where you can be collaborative creatively and use the power of educational tools to explore the endless potential of creativity. Being creative is the most important thing a child/adolescent can do. The biggest misconception is that people are just creative or you are born creative. I am a firm believer you have to learn how to be creative and this entails deconstructing scales and theory and turning them in to musical tools we can use to create things with. This process for me is THEORY to PRACTICAL to CREATIVITY.  Biggest Inspiration: My year 12 maths teacher Ms Climo. She went above and beyond to always check up on me and my mental health. She would go above and beyond to make sure I understood class conten...

It was really amazing today to watch my fellow students Orff presentations/class demonstration. Seeing how far everyone has come has been amazing considering we were all very shy and shaky with Orff concepts during week one. Fellow class mate Dan Rowe performed an amazing Orff class presentation using an original song he wrote about meeting a girl on the bus. His performance really inspired me as it was super creative, catchy and most importantly engaging. I performed in Orff style 'Old Macdonald Had a Farm'. In my previous blog post you will see my score for this. I am pretty confident in how I performed today and feel like I was very engaging. The only criticism I have for my self is that at one stage my brain glitched out and I did one of my stop cues at the wrong time. Hopefully my confident performance was able to mask this. Belinda gave us some powerful advice to be utilised in the classroom. If we make a mistake during our delivery of classroom content Belinda told us no...