This course has been designed and created for Teachers who want to start teaching vocal music lessons in schools or otherwise which does not cater to any specific genre or who are already teaching and would like to develop their teaching strategies to evolve into teachers who create an effective and engaging classroom for their students.
The course offers the student- teacher to uncover the essential elements of an effective/engagaging classroom starting with undertstanding pedagogy of good teaching-learning and then using that learning to apply it any vocal genre.
Course Format
Course format is divided into
1. Pedagogy Teaching-Learning
2. Applying the learning to any vocal genre
3. Mock session as Summative
| Session No. |
Week |
Topics |
Duration (min) |
| 1 |
1 |
Vision, objective,Learning Style, Safe Classroom |
90 |
| 2 |
1 |
Scaffolding, Higher Order Thinking, Teaching for Creativity |
90 |
| 3 |
2 |
Analysis of Assessments for session 1 and 2 |
45 |
| 4 |
2 |
Online teaching and best practices |
60 |
| 5 |
3 |
Generic Vocal Training |
120 |
| 6 |
3 |
Discussion of Assessments, Rubric building for Mock Class |
45 |
| 7 |
4 |
Mock Class |
60
|
Objectives
This course will cover the following:
- Vision and objective for Teaching (with Shankar Mahadevan Academy) or elsewhere
- Teaching for Different Learning Styles and Skill Levels
- Teaching to create a safe Classroom
- Teaching with Scaffolding
- Bloom's Taxonomy for Higher Order Teaching
- Teaching for Creativity
- Teaching Methodology for Vocal Music
- Teaching Online - Tools, Best Practices and Teaching Aids
- Preparing for and Conducting a Class Online
- Good Grasp of Sur and Laya. Ability to Sing with a Tanpura.
- Knowledge of any vocal genre of music
- Enthusiasm for Teaching
- Openness and Curiosity to Learn
- Able to Communciate in English to understand the teaching and apply the learning
Pedagogy in General
- Vision and objective
- Learning styles
- Safe Classroon
- ZPD & Scaffolding
- Higher Order thinking skills
- Teaching for Creativity
- Teaching in an online medium
Pedagogy for Vocal Genre
- Apply the understanding of pedagogy learnt to different teaching scenarios for Vocal Genre
Mock Session
- Prepare for mock session by creating assessments and rubrics
- Mock session
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Assess your aptitude, skills and motivation for teaching
- Learn to teach using innovative methods for creative learning
- Learn to teach a class online
- Learn to teachi vocal specific teaching methodologies
