Date for Entry: (Thursday 22 September 2022)
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Wednesday 5 October 2022)
Dear
Diary,
Today
the staff room was empty because of the TUTTA day. I went through the stuff
that I had worked on with Miss Roberts too and she had approved it. I got some
feedback on the lesson plans. I also emailed her the music for the St. George’s
college song. She had to make prints of them for the ensemble’s rehearsal next
week Monday.
I
did not have a class in the morning but I sat with Miss Roberts asking her
about the National Anthem that I would have heard some of the younger children coming
to practice all week during recess and lunchtime. She said that she was using a
score that she found online.
When
I got to see a copy of the first page for the full score, I was very surprised
and shocked. I recognised it immediately. I was right when I looked down at the
title because I saw it was an adaptation done by me. I did not even remember I
had done this since my certificate time at UWI in September 2015. So, it seems
as if the band would not be learning two of my arrangements.
That
evening I had the first form one class to try the first lesson. It started well
but then there was a murmur group of seven girls pooling their heads in a
circle to talk about a lot. I wasn’t able to settle them and then after was a
‘happy group’ towards the end.
I
did not get to do pitches on the treble staff but we spoke on what is music,
the uses and purposes of music, music theory, a strategy for remembering music
theory, the staff and drawing the treble clef.
I was told by Miss Roberts that as a teacher I had to get a class register and take attendance for the class done. I felt that as an OJT they might not want to give me one so I decided to take a blank sheet of paper and create a list for it. I have decided that I would work on making one for myself and also a roll sheet that I saw Miss Roberts using.
Link(s):
- National Anthem Pan (Images).
- Class Attendance Sheets (V2).
- Lesson 1: “Let’s Begin: The World of Music Theory.”
Daryl Zion M. Ali
(7:52am – 2:50pm)
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