Exploring Writing and Researching in the Music Classroom. How can Students be encouraged?

Essay , 2022 , 8 Seiten , Note: Summa Cum Laude

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This essay will discuss which strategies to use to promote students to explore writing and researching in your music classroom. As part of the International Baccalaureate programme students have to be inquiry-based learners, who thrive on wanting to conduct research and expand their knowledge and understanding of a topic, through exploring factual and debatable facts related to the topic of music history. English literature plays a pivotal role in encouraging students to want to read and write whilst gathering information that will boost their morale and encourage them to conclude projects with the correct guidance, direction, advice and suggestions.

Abstract

The following essay will explain the importance of why teachers conduct lesson planning. When teachers create a unit or lesson by choosing activities and learning resources, that can be incorporated to benefit students' interests. In inquiry-based learning, as part of the International Baccalaureate programme, it is important to consider what instructional approaches to use. These will be greatly beneficial for students to achieve their outcomes, goals, objectives, and aims.

Keywords:Aims, Instructional methods, International Baccalaureate, Objectives, Outcomes.

Introduction

The following scenario presents the nine-grade music teacher, Mr Paz, assigning a writing project to his students covering the writing process, teaching them the process in-depth, promoting student collaboration, and using two instructional strategies to enhance student's understanding of writing skills, especially those who have never concluded a secondary research paper.

List of Writing Process Steps and Explanation of Student Benefits

Teaching students to write a secondary research paper can be a daunting task for any teacher, especially a music teacher, who wants their students to succeed and write with ease without feeling uncomfortable about the outcome but argue with facts, research being conducted and writing with supportive evidence from primary and secondary sources of information.

According to Cutler (2014), which confirms that "I want my students to feel secure in the knowledge that nobody is beyond criticism (even their teacher), and that the bigger challenge is developing the good sense to acknowledge and successfully respond to feedback" (para. 3). Getting students to think critically about what they have researched and written will promote inquiry-based learning as outlined by the IBO (2018). Students can improve the technique of writing regularly through trial and error, through making mistakes, they can correct the sentences. The teacher could introduce the application Grammarly to assist them to check their research paper for grammatical errors.

It is important to understand the strategies to put in place for students to realise their potential and be more at ease when they conclude their research papers. Some of these strategies will be beneficial for the students and teachers, to allow them to reflect, grow and develop their writing skills further:

- Writers are the best writing teachers, through allowing your students to write regularly, they will become familiar with their style of writing to enhance their skills, develop their vocabulary further and present papers, which are well-researched and written. As a writer, you develop the craft of writing when you conclude blogs, regular research papers, essays and academic papers. You become familiar with how to reference correctly, how to insert citations, and how to avoid plagiarism.
- The value of sharing, when you as an educator share your writing with your students and ask for feedback they will provide constructive criticism that will allow the writer to grow and perfect the craft and art of writing. Through sharing your writings with students they become excited in return will also write using the skills you have taught them.
- Write for your students, through doing this you create opportunities for students to engage and understand what you are trying to portray through your writing. A good skill is to always write using a projector, add comments, and underline significant words. To start arguing with various statements and substantiate that answer with supporting evidence and research.
- The writing workshop, through creating workshops students have the opportunity to ask questions and deliver critique, which is essential when writing academic papers, understanding how to present the facts, and arguing correctly. How to use grammar correctly and avoid situations where sentences are not well written and do not make sense. Teachers can share research papers with their students.
- Seeking feedback, through allowing students and teachers to provide feedback they can identify these errors and work around them, allowing students opportunities to improve their writing skills and enhance their abilities to create outstanding and well-written research papers.
- Real-world writing, and inviting professional writers will benefit the students greatly as they will be able to share their experiences with them and make recommendations and suggestions when needed. It is a perfect educational experience for students to become familiar with academic writing. For a research paper, it would be beneficial to invite a music scholar or musicologist (Cutler, 2014).

Explanation of Teaching the Writing Process

Through explaining the writing process, students have the opportunity to understand the requirements to conclude a research paper. Preparing an example of a research paper and analysing the content will help them to understand what areas to cover to produce an outstanding paper. The starting point would be to highlight the importance of the research paper, and what the author is hoping to explain, defend, elaborate, and argue. Sometimes they need to understand how to argue with a supportive statement that they have researched and read. Referencing correctly is important and adding citations, and using the correct format that is required is essential. Students who are writing professional research papers have to adhere to the formatting that is required, to have a good understanding of APA formatting and the correct edition will help improve students' writing skills overall. Once students have identified the reason the author wanted to conclude the research paper, what data collection methods, and research methodology was used, whether it is qualitative or quantitative. Helping students understand the difference between presenting facts, and being able to argue correctly will steadfast them in preparing them to conclude their research papers.

Explanation of proposed strategy for incorporating student collaboration

Technology is a powerful tool and promotes collaboration in the classroom. When you present a research paper concluded on Google Docs, students are able to add their comments and suggestions. Through sharing their information with others, they are able to get constructive feedback, improve on areas of their research paper, and adjust their papers according to the comments and suggestions that were made with the necessary recommendations.

Stauffer (2020) confirms that technology promotes students to “think creatively and critically” about their work (p. 1). In most IB schools, students will have to use their thinking, research, social, self-management, and communication skills as part of the various Approaches to Teaching and Learning (ATL) skills as outlined by IBO (2018). Through using technology in the music classroom, students will become 21st-century skilled as outlined by Stauffer (2020), developing their social skills through concluding projects that promote cooperative learning, allowing students to think critically about what is happening around them, working through means of collaboration, questions and reflecting about what you have learned. Students need to reflect on their learning and share their educational experiences with the teacher to allow opportunities for them to become more enriched and cover areas of particular concern to become more confident and comfortable with what they are reading, exploring or extending.

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• Veranstaltung: Masters in Education (Advanced Teaching for Elementary, Middle and Secondary)
• Note: Summa Cum Laude
• Autor: Dr. Mario Maxwell Müller (Autor:in)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Seiten: 8
• Katalognummer: V1297418
• ISBN (PDF): 9783346764126
• Sprache: Englisch
• Schlagworte: Exploring writing, Reading, Researching, International Baccalaureate.