During this session, the presenters explained one of their methods in teaching upper elementary students how to be creative and write their own songs by demonstrating how changing perspectives can affect everything in a story. They had participants re-imagine a familiar story from a different perspective to create an "I see" song. ReflectionI decided to go to this session because Michele Kaschub and Janice Smith were the presenters and I had referenced their research and work as part of my own research for my songwriting projects in Harrisonburg, VA and in China. I loved this session - it was engaging, helpful, and fun! It was helpful to hear how they ask questions to students to help them compose, as well as helpful for me to learn more about how they engage students using the five compositional capacities. I had a enjoyable time beginning to compose a song from a different perspective of a minor prop/character in a fairytale I was very familiar with. It reminded me of Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development where I was comfortable with a certain fairytale, but was pushed to think and compose in different ways with a different perspective. Comments are closed.
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