Overview:
The best planned lesson is worthless if the instructional delivery is uninteresting or unengaging, particularly if accompanied by weak leadership skills and ineffective classroom management. Although every music educator has an individual teaching style, effective instructional delivery should be practiced, evaluated, and revamped, if necessary, to consistently maintain student attention and a positive classroom environment.
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
- Identify the elements of instructional delivery,
- Describe why effective pacing is important in teaching,
- Identify effective teaching transitions,
- Describe meaningful introductions,
- Describe ways in which teachers monitor and adjust to students as the lesson progresses, and
- Compare and contrast effective and ineffective ways of implementing a music lesson.
What is a Transition in Teaching?
A transition in teaching a lesson is an activity or procedure that moves students from one part of the lesson to another in a structured, meaningful manner. Instructors may use it as both a teaching tool and a classroom management technique. One example might be:
All students whose names begin with the letter “B” raise your hand; you may choose the Orff instrument that you want to play.
Watch this video from the Teaching Channel and identify three (3) transitions the teacher uses.
Transitions tie to effective pacing since each affects student motivation. Both components are necessary to keep the lesson moving forward.