Week 13 - Final Week

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 not to apologise to the students but rather use that as a lesson of what not to do. Classic example of turning a mistake in to a positive learning experience rather than something negative. Over this semester I have really enjoyed Belinda/James teaching methods and have found them of significant value. I am proud to say I incorporate Orff concepts in my lessons I give to my students and have found them to be highly successful. I am very excited for the follow up subjects and to learn new content and further elaborate on what I have already learned.

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