Organizing Risk-Taking on my teaching
by Jacobo Nitsch
1. Critical pedagogy
1.1. active reflectioner
1.1.1. Praxis = reflection + action
1.2. teacher as facilitator
1.3. Transferring of learning
2. Reflective Music Education Questions and beliefs
2.1. Why am I teaching music?
2.2. Whose interests am I working for?
2.3. Belief of music as a way for life improvement
2.3.1. not a Panacea
2.3.2. Multidisciplinary connections
2.4. What general guidelines are serving as parameters of my teaching
2.4.1. 21 first Century Learning Skills
2.4.2. National standards
3. Understanding by Design
3.1. Big IDEAS
3.2. Understandigns
3.3. Essential questions
3.4. Backward Design
3.4.1. Expected Outcomes
3.4.2. Evidence
3.4.3. Learning activities
4. Empowerment
4.1. Creative teacher
4.1.1. Risk taking
4.1.2. Connecting personal interest with my teaching
4.1.3. Connecting lessons with real world
4.2. Creative Learner
4.2.1. Metacognitive skills
5. Creativity
5.1. As a tool for engagement
5.1.1. stevens, piano composition
5.1.1.1. Detailed and oritentated compositions
5.2. Through compositional processes
5.2.1. Michelle Kaschup
5.2.1.1. Must: Exp. components of music
5.3. Multidisciplinary connections
5.3.1. Sawyer -> sociocultural approach
5.3.1.1. Appropiateness
5.3.1.2. Originality vrs Innovation