Hi. Anne. Primary SPED, Sierra Nevada mountains. I play piano, and am ehhhh....passable on guitar, ukulele, clarinet, and flute. Want to learn violin. Or mandolin. Or saxophone. Or all of them. #weirded
#WeirdEd I play piano like an extension of my body, and can navigate acoustic guitar basics. Penny whistle, fife, and fiddle get played eventually, to my dog's great distress.
#weirded I played Baritone for 9 yrs and valve trombone for like 3-ish of those years. Played in a jazz band and "regular" band from 6th grade to soph to jr summer in college
#WeirdEd The only musical learning I had throughout my childhood was xylophone in 2nd-6th, otherwise, I didn't have any other musical instruments that the kids here seem to get in 5th grade. Orchestra/band
The one and only Miss Shuganah. Right now I'd like a drumstick to symbolically beat against Lumpy, but I reckon that the chemo drugs are starting to do that for me. #weirded
#WeirdEd Oh yeah, and handbells and djembe.
I once played a very loud chord in a pipe organ in an empty church at night during a rainstorm because I had keys and, well, how could I not?
#WeirdEd Ok, before we get into the chat proper, there’s been a big ole twitter kerfluffle happening. I don’t want to write any more about it, I feel like I’ve been clear. But if anyone wants to talk about it we can do that first. Open forum
#WeirdEd Ok, before we get into the chat proper, there’s been a big ole twitter kerfluffle happening. I don’t want to write any more about it, I feel like I’ve been clear. But if anyone wants to talk about it we can do that first. Open forum
Now I’m just getting jealous. I’m in a condo, so a full set is a no-go. I’ve got an electronic kit that’s fun to play, but...just not the same. #WeirdEd
Someone edufamous made a general statement about "good teachers," Doug had a snarky but reasonable reply, and now we're all a poisonous mob. #theend? #weirded
I'm just on the side of "140/280 characters and no reliable sarcasm or sincerity emojis means that no one is really saying anything on Twitter so there." #weirded
#WeirdEd Q1 If the first thousand songs are the hardest to learn when playing an instrument, what’s the correlation in teaching? What are the songs? Lessons? Students? Years? Projects?
Truth be told, I am a bachelor of bassoon (but out of practice), prefer woodwinds to brass, proficient at piano, have spent time with ukulele, and everything else I can make basic demonstrations on. #weirded
OMG ... you didn't .... How dare we (you) celebrate rest, play, life outside of education? One dimensional lives are the only rite/write/right way....
P.S. This will be my last #weirded chat, taking the summer off edutwitter #sacrilegious
Summer starts on Saturday!
#WeirdEd A1 I might say first 1000 classes -- but at 5 classes per day for 180 days (give or take), that's almost it -- and it took longer to figure things out!
#WeirdEd Q1 If the first thousand songs are the hardest to learn when playing an instrument, what’s the correlation in teaching? What are the songs? Lessons? Students? Years? Projects?
A1: WHAT KIDS CAN DO. This is so freaking huge and takes years. Getting a feel for how far is too far to push them, and how little is too little, and at what ages, is a serious learning curve. You get WAY better at it even in the first year, though. #weirded
#WeirdEd A1 ALL of that. Especially for a new teacher, it's quite the first year that's gonna happen, and from what I've heard of...all y'all, it never really goes away even 10 years later. Ties w/lessons & Projects, w/o the extensive exp, first lessons/projects can be difficult
A1 Life lessons. I am sixty and still figuring out that resentments are not a good thing to hold on to. In the process of letting go.
Math people, how many times have I gone around the sun since January 6, 1958. #weirded
I teach primary, so this reminds me of reading, especially for my ELLs. The hardest thing is getting those sight words & the letter sounds. Then the digraphs, trigraphs, etc. it’s all work for them until one day, after all the work up front, they can read fluently. #weirded
A1. I think the first thousand lessons are the hardest part. The next thousand are still hard, but you start to find your rhythm. Then you hit that third thousand and think you are on to something. And then you try to join a band and realize that you have much to learn… #weirded
A1: Engaging Ss in a new way of learning, being effective in doing so and remembering how to do it again. As a BT, I have been able to try new things this year and see what worked and what flopped...a lot.... #weirded
A1: I’m not sure, but I’m excited going into a new year, starting with a new group of kids at a new school, what the lessons of my first semester truly were and what will need more repetition. Also, which things I dealt with were unique and which ones will be patterns #WeirdEd
A1: #weirded I teach kids/coach adults with tech, and piecemeal tech skills are like this. Each skill contributes the notes, put together enough to accomplish a task.
#weirded. A1
Lessons are the songs
Students either make beautifu music or destroy the song making it fun step.
Or they run with it and make something more magnificent
A1: I would say the first 1000 lessons were the most rewarding. Although this year was very, um, growth oriented? Is that the right term for a huge learning experience? Trial by fire? #weirdED
A1 Maybe I am just slow on the uptake, but it seems to me that you need to make a conscious decision to learn life's lessons. Thinks keep popping up until you either learn or pass away, which ever comes first.
#weirded
A1: as for the correlation in teaching, that’s the first thousand days (for me). Where you mess up & have to learn through trial and error. Eventually it gets a little easier but it’s tough. I just finished my first year. #weirded
What made it harder for me was that they kept changing my classes, then the pacing calendar, then the state changed the curriculum, etc.
Plus side, improved tech! #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd A1 Even students, I have to say, my own exp. is so vastly different from other Ss that I have to constantly self-reflect, exposure breeds experience, what I'm exposed is different from what Ss are exposed to, but eventually it should get a bit easier-ish through exp
A1 the hardest thing to do in writing a song is to have balance for most or all of the instruments. Not to just one. Same goes in the classroom to balance all the voices #weirded
#Weirded The hardest for me is engagement. Keeping myself engaged in my piano lessons and French lessons. In the classroom keeping this "entertainment" generation engaged in repetitive activities. Gamifying everything is exhausting.
Fully agree with this. It took me at least five years (1000 school days, ish?) to feel like I knew what I was doing. The next five years I thought I was pretty good. The next ten have been about reworking, refining, and trying to keep getting better. #weirded
A1 Been at my current school 8 yrs. Taught 9 diff subjects.
Hard to get better without taking risks, failing AND THEN revamping! Haven't had the opportunity to revamp, but getting through my 1000 too quickly. #weirded
A1 cont: Culture building and classroom management. The first 10 days- for the first 10 years. The first thousand redirects, positive narrations, and even referrals (for us teachers of older kiddos). #weirded
A1: I can’t help but think of this from the student perspective. I’d say it’s days. 1,000 days to really “get” a school. So high school is always awkward because nobody’s there long enough. #weirdED
A1: I can’t help but think of this from the student perspective. I’d say it’s days. 1,000 days to really “get” a school. So high school is always awkward because nobody’s there long enough. #weirdED
A1: I can’t help but think of this from the student perspective. I’d say it’s days. 1,000 days to really “get” a school. So high school is always awkward because nobody’s there long enough. #weirdED
A1+: This is something unique to music education. Or maybe not so. Maybe it extents to physical education, BECAUSE MUSIC IS A PHYSICAL SKILL YOU NEED TO DEVELOP MUSCLE MEMORY FOR.
#weirded
Educational research has show that glitter has a positive effect on learning and bitmojis have a negative effect on learning. This was done as a quadruple blind study. #weirded
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A1+: This is something unique to music education. Or maybe not so. Maybe it extents to physical education, BECAUSE MUSIC IS A PHYSICAL SKILL YOU NEED TO DEVELOP MUSCLE MEMORY FOR.
#weirded
Honestly it took me about 10 years before I really felt like I could admit that I was “good” at this teaching thing. Still not great. (And I don’t think I ever will be—but that just might be my Calvinist upbringing rearing it’s ugly head.) #weirded
Steve in Baltimore. I imagine myself like John Lennon, “I play the guitar. Sometimes, I play the fool.” Late with no cake, sorry. But I brought a Beatle instead.. #WeirdEd
What on earth is middle school then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #weirded
#WeirdEd Deborah from Sac, mostly voice. I played clarinet from 5th grade all the way through 12th, but I love singing best. Also, recently addicted to Glee, so yeah. Voice.
Also, sorry I'm late.
Educational research has show that glitter has a positive effect on learning and bitmojis have a negative effect on learning. This was done as a quadruple blind study. #weirded
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@mrterborg, @MrsAltham, @TheWeirdTeacher
The only benefit of teaching so many diff subjects is I get to see my awesome Ss for more than one year at HS. This year's senior class just graduated and I had about 50 of them for 2-3 yrs. THAT was awesome and a chance for me to grow with them. #weirded#mystudentsareawesome
#WeirdEd Welcome to the party! Here's the Q again- #WeirdEd Q2 Hot Take- Having students repeat things they know how to do is not a bad thing within reason. What say you?
Don't forget the hashtag in your response so we all can see how cool you are
@TheWeirdTeacher used typing in his blog post as an example; I would argue other tech skills count. My 1st graders this year were really confused by computer mice - they are more accustomed to touchscreens these days. I wonder what phys skills tech will need in future. #weirded
They call it “chops” but it means musculature developed so you can play (or sing!!) something more easily. But it is a physical skill, sometimes more so than an artistic one (which is why musicians are weird and also sometimes jock-ish). #weirded
A2: If it's actually worth doing again, it's because there's room for growth, or adjustment, or getting more comfortable. There can always be feedback- from teacher, self, or others. Always provide new twists, takes, reflections, opportunities. #weirded
#WeirdEd A2: this is the norm in ELA as we add and refine skills. If you're always trying something brand spankin' new, what's the foundation on which you're grounded?
I agree. Just because they are practicing a skill with repetition doesn't mean the skill is being practiced the same way each time. Just like there are different drills for finger dexterity, chords, or note recognition, Ss can practice the skill in different ways #weirded
#WeirdEd But yeah, I mean, there are benefits to repetition. Like, I just know when to scream out BOY enough and arrows fire, sometimes ghost wolves....
A2. My Ss need this for a lot of skills. Building confidence as well as keeping skills sharp. To be clear, for some of my kids that means remembering their own birthday. But my kids are not so vastly different than yours. #weirded
#weirded Had to put kiddo to bed. A1+ correlations all over the place...HS specifically: every course has its own language that needs to be developed before using it. Also practice using it in sentences, questions, conversations.
Doing things you are good at is pleasurable. Doing things you can do until you are really good at them is learning. I kind of can't believe this is a take and not just common sense. #weirded
A2 I think that constantly having to develop new skills all the time is disorienting and exhausting, and that students need space to use the skills they already have to do things worth doing.
#WeirdEd
#WeirdEd Welcome to the party! Here's the Q again- #WeirdEd Q2 Hot Take- Having students repeat things they know how to do is not a bad thing within reason. What say you?
Don't forget the hashtag in your response so we all can see how cool you are
Doing things you are good at is pleasurable. Doing things you can do until you are really good at them is learning. I kind of can't believe this is a take and not just common sense. #weirded
And it’s extremely quantifiable. Mastery is super easy to demonstrate in music education. So instrumental & choral folks spend a lot of time doing the same things each day in class. #weirded
#WeirdEd A1: I guess I interpreted the question a bit differently, because in terms of teaching, I feel like I need 1000 chances before I finally start figuring things out. But for the student, I think the 1000 songs metaphor could be the constant exposure of anything.
#WeirdEd Exactly, also, repetition doesn't even = boring. Maybe playing Multiplication around the world w/flash cards can be repetition in the guise of a fun game.
And it’s extremely quantifiable. Mastery is super easy to demonstrate in music education. So instrumental & choral folks spend a lot of time doing the same things each day in class. #weirded
Q2: Nope, no repetition. I rehearse the play exactly one time (wouldn’t want the kids to get bored-they know how to say lines) and then put it on stage. #WeirdEd
A2 Also as long as students understand TO WHAT END. And sometimes letting them choose their own degree of mastery. "I just want to pass this course" and "I just wanna enjoy this" and "I want to make this my life's passion" are very different levels for students (and us) #weirded
#WeirdEd Welcome to the party! Here's the Q again- #WeirdEd Q2 Hot Take- Having students repeat things they know how to do is not a bad thing within reason. What say you?
Don't forget the hashtag in your response so we all can see how cool you are
#WeirdEd A2: Yes - practice is a great thing. It's how people get better at anything. And usually practicing stinks. It's long and boring and hard. But the benefits totally pay off. I think our task as teachers is to teach students to see the benefits to motivate.
A2: I have kids repeat tasks often depending on the task. For example, we repractice our graphic organizers. They know how they work; the repeat practice gets them past the surface & allows them to start going deeper. They get past just learning & start using it. #weirded
A2 Are we setting it up so that repetition had opportunities for student-led depth? Because that matters to me and depth doesn’t really happen the first time through.
(Christie, librarian, slightly unemployed, and a vocalist.)
A2 agreed ... But who decides what is "reasonable"? Muscle memory is important in many subjects not just music and PE. Any skill needs practice to improve performance. #weirded
Q2: Nope, no repetition. I rehearse the play exactly one time (wouldn’t want the kids to get bored-they know how to say lines) and then put it on stage. #WeirdEd
Q2 But sarcasm aside, I’m Theatre the repetition not only helps the student feel more secure and confident working towards the performance but also helps us dig a little deeper each time. #WeirdEd
Hi. This is my secular Twitter handle. My rabbinic one is @RutiRegan (but it currently seems to be shadow banned.) I do inclusive education R&D among other things. I can sing liturgy and I want to learn piano so I can get better at music. #WeirdEd
#weirded A2 all subjects have a literacy requirement, and to an extent repetition helps hone skills to accomplish (measure the length of the hallway, how much water in the beaker, etc.) as long as you ask your students to use the skills in meaningful ways all good in my book
#WeirdEd I maintain that "I want to read that book again because I liked it" is as valid a reason to reread as "I want to see how the climax is foreshadowed/analyze the characterization/learn to speak Sindarin"
A1 as a counselor it’s definitely days. I’m finishing my 13th yr of it and still get things wrong: w/Ss, Ts, Ps and admins. Great thing about my job is I can’t plan. The hardest thing about my job is when I try to. #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd Repetition can also take the form of using skill in different formats to also build...er..what's the word... generalization? Transferrence? I dunno. One 'a those buzz words that makes sense.
That’s what I’m thinking. Our math curriculum (at my old school) only had us touch the surface, test, move on. They NEVER got to go deep with the learning. Never kept practicing until they were no longer concerned with “how” and finally able to use it to problem solve. #weirded
#WeirdEd Q1 If the first thousand songs are the hardest to learn when playing an instrument, what’s the correlation in teaching? What are the songs? Lessons? Students? Years? Projects?
I'm sure there is. How much practice does someone need? 80, 90, 100% accuracy? Is this over months, years, decades? Lack of interest, new interests? #weirded
#WeirdEd Guys, it's not a competition or anything but this is Emily's first chat with us and she's totally kicking your butts.
I mean, it's not a contest. But if it were...
#WeirdEd A2: Yes - practice is a great thing. It's how people get better at anything. And usually practicing stinks. It's long and boring and hard. But the benefits totally pay off. I think our task as teachers is to teach students to see the benefits to motivate.
I teach primary. Repetition is huge in reading. I teach mostly ELLs and Sped. If I don’t have them repeat practice, it stays a new skill. When they keep practicing, they can master it & use it in a new way. I’ve seen this. The repetition is huge. #weirded
#weirded A1+, A2+ this is a timely topic, we have PD on de-emphazising memorization of material (think chem, phys. Alg). There has been some understandable pushback, I am really looking and liking the responses - will use in my end of year dept email.
#WeirdEd LOL. I quit a job last spring due to miserableness and have done some excellent long-term subbing this year. So I’m working, but looking down the barrel of, uh, Not That once school is out.
#weirded A1. Great question! Clearly showing that students need multiple experiences with skills in order for mastery. I think it is SKILLS that are the songs- the more exposure to skills the better.
#WeirdEd Repetition can also take the form of using skill in different formats to also build...er..what's the word... generalization? Transferrence? I dunno. One 'a those buzz words that makes sense.
Repetition, when done well - whether it’s teaching, coaching or counseling, can form good habits. When repetition is tone deaf (see what I did there?), it can be quite harmful. #WeirdEd
#Weirded Gave it up too. I just really want kids to get away from school...when they are away from school. Take guitar lessons, karate, dance, video games, draw, etc. makes them better students. Makes them interesting people.
#weirded a2: practice with variety and student choice = yes plz. Also all the music talk made me pick up my flute whereupon I realized my kid popped a spring when he knocked it over the other day and now my face looks like this
My college instrumental professor (on bassoon) talked to us all the time about practicing scales in different ways: different tonguing patterns, different rhythms...I mean, there are entire publishing companies dedicated to teaching scales in different ways. #weirded
Maybe. Actually yes. I had kids who were still on the same task all year with the sped teacher, but for me, I’d had them move on once I felt they had it down & could use it. The sped teacher kept them on it until it raised data points. So yes. True. Sad. Frustrating. #weirded
#WeirdEd I feel like "automaticity" is a word that ought to be making into this repetition kerfuffle. Some things you need to make automatic, and that happens by doing them over and over and over and over.
#WeirdEd Not exactly, I meant that skills also pop up in different subjects, not just isolated. For example, context clues in ELA is also necessary/useful for word problems in Math.
I wouldn’t have ELA students read the same book more than a couple times. But they might revise a paragraph of their own writing hundreds of times. #WeirdEd
#weirded Q2. Repeat known skills? Absolutely. Adults practice the same skill over and over (ie driving). Repetition leads to mastery. however, it does not need to be boring- switch up the practice!
Yes. That too - and I see those as related. Because the first time you do it, the specifics of the task can be necessary scaffolding that falls away as you get fluency. #WeirdEd
And maybe we've offered kids SO MUCH NOVELTY over the years, that when they get to Beginning Band, they're like, "Why do I have to practice the same thing over and over again?" #weirded
That leads to lack of confidence. I had a student this year who wouldn’t try sometimes because she genuinely felt defeated. It took a lot of building up to get her to try. Once she did, she saw she could actually do it, & then it was success from them on. #weirded
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@TheWeirdTeacher just need to say that I've been inspired by your passion to take up the bass as a new learner. It's great modeling for kids and colleagues. I received an electric piano as a gift this year and it's given me WINGS. #weirded
It's KILLING ME teaching HS math/Physics/Chem without emphasis on some rote memorization! I didn't' have a six page exam reference sheet in HS. I can still chant the first 36 elements in order.
Doesn't make me smarter but does allow quicker recall to do more imp. stuff #weirded
Yes. Particularly kids with communication disabilities and kids who benefit from visual support for content. I think the potential for what can be done with visual support is very underdeveloped. #WeirdEd
And some are just bored and need something higher-level. I have kids who don’t pass the skill even though I know they can do it. They’re just bored. I give them something that takes it to a new level & suddenly they achieve wonders. Because they’re interested. #weirded
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Going back to A1, you need to have a personal sense for your own students of when repetition is refining, growing, developing, sharpening and when the poor bastards are just going through the motions. #weirded
#weirded a2 I have to repeat instructions constantly. People like doing what they know. It's why your students play Fortnite every night. It takes dozens of games to even figure out a little.
Like, yes, be novel. But don't sacrifice depth for novelty. I'm learning this with my nearly three-year-old. So much repetition. Which you think I'd learn in 11 years teaching middle school band!!!!!!! #weirded
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@slwindisch, @EmilyWaisanen, @TheWeirdTeacher
If anyone asks, I will politely tell them I cannot play any more "name of composer"? no google translate! #weirded I took 5 years of german in MS/HS and had a TON of repetition!
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@mrterborg, @annemdelgado, @rebelmusicteach
It's KILLING ME teaching HS math/Physics/Chem without emphasis on some rote memorization! I didn't' have a six page exam reference sheet in HS. I can still chant the first 36 elements in order.
Doesn't make me smarter but does allow quicker recall to do more imp. stuff #weirded
It’s not translation exactly. Transference of skills, perhaps? Internalizing a concept or skill is necessary prior to transference into another domain. #WeirdEd
YES. I have started to deliver a whole speech about how feeling boredom is very frequently precursor to creativity. Writing involves switching from external stimuli to internal, and boredom is the static between stations. But tolerance is low in kids/adults these days. #weirded
And maybe we've offered kids SO MUCH NOVELTY over the years, that when they get to Beginning Band, they're like, "Why do I have to practice the same thing over and over again?" #weirded
Hundreds? For me that would kill any and all joy in my writing. I’m all for revising, rewriting, but at some point I need to accept it as my own before it is stripped of all the unique qualities that make it mine #weirded
#WeirdEd Folks, don't look now, but you're all having a deep, nuanced conversation on twitter. Remember this when someone says 'Twitter isn't good for these kinds of conversations." It is if you try for a second
Yes this. My kids who know their letters don’t need to repeat/review. They’ve moved on. The ones who have just learned them? They practice every day. #weirded
Going back to A1, you need to have a personal sense for your own students of when repetition is refining, growing, developing, sharpening and when the poor bastards are just going through the motions. #weirded
But pencil me in in the "Fans of Memorization" column. Memorization (especially of verse, poetry, music, theater) is incredibly good for the soul. #weirded
And some are just bored and need something higher-level. I have kids who don’t pass the skill even though I know they can do it. They’re just bored. I give them something that takes it to a new level & suddenly they achieve wonders. Because they’re interested. #weirded
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I’m curious too. I needed my kids to get their math facts at one point because they had to be fast so they could move on to 2-digit adding. Showed them their facts learned on a graph & so they could visually see the growth. That’s when they started to get interested. #weirded
#WeirdEd Folks, don't look now, but you're all having a deep, nuanced conversation on twitter. Remember this when someone says 'Twitter isn't good for these kinds of conversations." It is if you try for a second
Or “What exactly are Hot Cross Buns anyway? Is this even school appropriate? What is this song about?!” Thoughts I had in 3rd grade learning cello for the first time... #weirded
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@rebelmusicteach, @EmilyWaisanen, @TheWeirdTeacher
A2: Practice and repetition suck, but you can make it through if the end goal is worth it. @TheWeirdTeacher would love to play London Calling, so the boring parts are worth it. The question isn’t how do we make practice fun, but how do we make the end goal desirable? #WeirdEd
YES. I have started to deliver a whole speech about how feeling boredom is very frequently precursor to creativity. Writing involves switching from external stimuli to internal, and boredom is the static between stations. But tolerance is low in kids/adults these days. #weirded
And maybe we've offered kids SO MUCH NOVELTY over the years, that when they get to Beginning Band, they're like, "Why do I have to practice the same thing over and over again?" #weirded
#WeirdEd Folks, don't look now, but you're all having a deep, nuanced conversation on twitter. Remember this when someone says 'Twitter isn't good for these kinds of conversations." It is if you try for a second
#weirded Another point to consider is that repetition can be used to correct bad habits. Some Ss process won't help them grow in learning (the main thing I see is using yahoo answers as a source/copying answers). I can help guide them to correct this issue through practice
#Weirded I was in a punk rock band in the 90s. We had a recording- lost my only copy. And I cannot for the life of me recall the bands name. I remember lot of fun gigs though!
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This is why I've come to believe we start with a .... to help students get through the boredom. Builds tolerance, helps Ss see where they're going #weirded
#WeirdEd I trick my kids into this! First week I make them make up complicated secret handshakes, many steps. They all nail it. Then I tell them, "Now we're memorizing poems! Don't tell me you can't bc I can haz evidence."
But pencil me in in the "Fans of Memorization" column. Memorization (especially of verse, poetry, music, theater) is incredibly good for the soul. #weirded
When I need my Ss to memorize something I sing it, until they sing it/chant it!
My singing is pretty bad which is an added incentive for them to memorize more quickly.
Some of them come back later and tell my my "songs" helped them at college....
#sigfigs#moleisaunit#weirded
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@nathan_stevens, @MrsKremBCMS, @TheWeirdTeacher, @EmilyWaisanen
So the Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History podcast episode Hallelujah is great on this. Some creative people revise the same thing to death. Some dash off a thing and move on. #weirded
Hundreds was an overestimate, yeah. But if they’re leading the revising, it’s still all theirs, no? I don’t think a first draft is “me” and subsequent drafts are any less so. #WeirdEd
#weirded this is exactly what our chem teacher says - I agree, clearly. It is finding a way to bridge the need/importance the subjects require with the needs of the students
--But I don't think of memorization as repetition. The memorization is the goal...you need some repetition to get there, but the goal is bigger. Always there should be a bigger goal above the repetition #weirded
Agreed. There’s a difference between just busy work& skill practice. I set up math skill centers in my room sometimes where kids rotate & practice the skills we’ve learned in a way that incorporates multiple intelligences. Still repetition, but not just a busy sheet. #weirded
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@nathan_stevens, @MrsKremBCMS, @TheWeirdTeacher, @EmilyWaisanen
No joke, part of the reason I started this blog is that I was tired of hearing people bemoaning the social skills of ~kids these days~ then saying “you can’t have a meaningful conversation online.” #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd Folks, don't look now, but you're all having a deep, nuanced conversation on twitter. Remember this when someone says 'Twitter isn't good for these kinds of conversations." It is if you try for a second
#WeirdEd just generally speaking, a lot of music education is spent in the zone of proximal development. That ish is Vygotsky and we are all over it here in music land!!!
#WeirdEd just generally speaking, a lot of music education is spent in the zone of proximal development. That ish is Vygotsky and we are all over it here in music land!!!
By 6th grade I was playing the Violin part for the William Tell Overture as a solo sans music (because I was super disorganized) on my cello. Sadly I burned out after 6 months of carrying a cello in MS. I wish I still played. #weirded
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@rebelmusicteach, @EmilyWaisanen, @TheWeirdTeacher
I think sometimes you are more creative when limits are imposed on you. I think there are some very creative storytellers on this website who only work with 240 characters at a time, for example #weirded
I had one this year who could do third grade work starting second grade. If I made him do basic practice he was bored - if I stepped up the blooms taxonomy a bit, he started to really show his stuff. He was really a deep thinker in disguise. #weirded
#WeirdEd Love this thread! Yes! Memorization has its place in learning because it makes other tasks faster, better, easier, etc. But - there should always be something more complex you are working toward.
This is what we need more of. Proximal Development, makerspace, conversation / dialogue, anything. Keep it in the warm/ fuzzy / stretch zone. Jump in to build new foundations and then turn loose. #weirded
At some point when I’ve made grammatical changes and thought carefully about word choice, I need to move on. I imagine there comes a point where further revisions longer actually make the writing better, but by then we cannot actually see it. #weirded
So we did Measure for Measure this year and I had a kid who did the pro thing and CAME MEMORIZED for the rehearsals and I have never seen a more awesome 13-year-old acting performance. Hopefully the other kids saw that and connected the work she put in to her success. #weirded
A3 #weirded uh top three songs
1. The song I sang to myself after doing morning announcements one day, except I didn't turn off the equipment correctly so the whole school heard it. It was a lil ditty about making myself a cup of coffee
2 and 3. Other songs are okay too I guess
A3: “Can’t Stop the Feeling” by JT, “One Headlight” by the Wallflowers, and the old, old hymn, “Amazing Grace.”
But if you ask me again tomorrow…I’ll probably have three different choices…
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#WeirdEd A3 Top 3 are: My Shot/Wait for It from Hamilton, Immigrants, We Get the Job done from Hamiltape, and Valkyrie from the God of War 2018 soundtrack. Also, without repetition, I wouldn't have been able to beat the freaking Queen of the Valkyries from God of War 2018. DAMN
A3. America - Simon and Garfunkel
Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber
Wait For It - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Ask again in an hour you’ll get a different answer. #weirded
Ever put a thought out there and then not long afterwards realize you disagree with yourself? Yeah. I can no longer argue my point. I’m jumping on your side. #WeirdEd
Absolutely... Learning is about balance - comprehension is more important than memorization, but M has its place
I believe that "play" can satisfy both.
My Ss think I am weird, but they do "get it" and play is so much more fun #weirded
Dare I say that when you hit that "aha" moment, it's like a thousand tiny waves have hit you all at once and washed you clean of your self-doubt. I've never had that feeling (except once in the actual ocean) with anything but music. It's drug-like. #weirded
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#weirded a3: this is too hard, h8u Doug. But songs that always make me happy: This Old Heart Of Mine - Isley Bros, Hey - Oingo Boingo, El Condor Pasa - Simon & Garfunkel. (I’d rather be a forest than a street.)
1. Time (the Revelator) Gillian Welch
2. Post-War, M. Ward
3. Back in the Day, Ahmad
-And anything that Edgar Meyer or Esperanza Spalding ever touched. #weirded
A3 Top three? Gah that’s hard. Can I just go with the entire Paradise Lost album from Symphony X? It’s been on in my car for months and I am not even close to sick of it. #WeirdEd
Ummm did that just happen on the twitter? I am frightened.
I get your point though. They can rework something many times and it’s part of the process. #weirded
So #WeirdEd was the chat that stole my heart back a few months ago when I was a stressed out first year teacher considering quitting after winter break. It kept me going. I got less active on Twitter because I went through a lot second semester, but I’m glad to be back here.
I am about to pee myself with excitement. But it also drops on the LAST DAY OF EFFING SCHOOL which is also a payday after a very expensive weekend and MY DAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAY EVE!!!!!! #weirded
#WeirdEd A3 The Kyrie from the Duruflé Requiem. Josh Groban's Remember When It Rained. Um um um um the pressure of choosing the last one and excluding all the others is making my brain shut down, so call it that Davy Spillane lament for Cu Cuhullain from Riverdance
#WeirdEd I actually started to get the hang of the Valkyries after the 3rd or 4th one, it's the Queen that was kicking my butt, until suddenly, I just started kicking HER butt. Like, what? I leveled up internally or somethin. Though, after defeating her, didnt wanna keep playing
Let’s just say it didn’t scream out popularity like my rec specs or that month I had to wear an eye patch... how did I survive middle school again? #weirded
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I don’t play anything (except one song on the piano) but I have had that aha moment with singing. When you hit a note you never thought you could. Or when you finally get the sound you’re going for. Nothing like it. #weirded
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#WeirdEd Q4 Hot Take- If we want students to be creative, independent learners they have to go through the basics first. Examples like “So in so never graduated” are outliers because they’re unusual, not because they’re the rule. Thoughts?
