3-3 Instructional Strategies

The candidate understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to

encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and their
connections, and to build skills to apply knowledge in relevant ways.

I use a variety of instructional strategies to encourage learners to development

deep understanding of content areas and their connections. As this class of
beginning woodwinds specifically addresses music reading and playing the correct
notes, I provide different strategies of how to achieve the desired sound. In the first
artifact, you see me modelling the desired outcome of how the excerpt should be
played. Once I modelled this, I asked the rest of the section to match that what I
played. The second artifact is a visual description of how the tongue and air should
be enacted to achieve the desired outcome in regard to articulation. The third
artifact is an example of a kinesthetic instructional strategy by having the students
articulate with specific syllables (such as Dah, Dit, Doo, etc.) to simulate tongue and
air movement.

Students can then take this concept of thinking through sound production to any
literature they perform going forward.

Artifacts:
- Clip of me modelling on my instrument (aural)
- Visual aid of tongue and air direction (visual)
- Clip of spoken articulation syllables (kinesthetic)