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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2025-01-20 20:24
So-- after 35 years of teaching, the university bureaucrats have decided that I have to have written lesson plans for what am teaching. They seem to want a lot of academic and pedagogical jargon that I am not familiar with. I looked on the internet for something I could adapt but didn't find anything.
¿Can someone point me to something on the internet or provide me with some plans from your school? This is an 8-year program with beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels so even a partial plan would help a lot.
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Author: David H. Kinder
Date: 2025-01-21 06:56
Have you asked ChatGPT?
If the university is going to require a boilerplate lesson plan, you might as well get it from an AI boilerplate factory.
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Author: crazyclari
Date: 2025-01-21 13:46
You may wish to type in training plans in to Google etc. There are heaps of templates there for the structure you may need. Your workplace may want clear, identifiable, achievable and measurable goals. Likely best to check prior to begining the process. They may want something less. Only you can find out that. If you need a reviewer feel free to let me know. If you have not done this before it is all new.
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Author: symphony1010
Date: 2025-01-21 14:18
If, miraculously, you can actually make it work for you then it won't seem so pointless.
Having been responsible for delivering, observing and evaluating such things I feel there are several key factors at play.
1. Will your institution expect you to stick rigidly to the written plan or will they accept that things change in the room? i.e. The pupil has not practised or perhaps they had a brace fitted. Flexibility is key but some organisations just want the paperwork and for it to be adhered to.
2. Through making real, honest plans will you discover that you actually give better lessons? The main factor with unplanned lessons is that they lose progression - that is that one lesson should link to what gets done in the next, and so on.
3. If your pro-forma is designed by the institution, things are more difficult - perhaps they'll let you do your own? I once was saddled with a music advisor who was not a professional player dictating a format that was impracticable, irrelevant and full of edu-speak that made little sense to those who were on the front line. Those sort of plans rarely work in my experience.
4. Some of the best lessons I ever observed were given without plans and they worked due to the experience of the teacher. In some cases a few brief notes were written as the lesson finished to provide a starting point for the next. In my experience it's those teachers who can't build a series of lessons with progression that need the planning templates but, most importantly, they must work for the teacher and not just be an article of compliance.
Good luck!
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Author: kdk
Date: 2025-01-21 17:53
elmo lewis wrote:
> So-- after 35 years of teaching, the university bureaucrats
> have decided that I have to have written lesson plans for what
> am teaching.
Are you teaching "private" studio lessons or group "instrumental methods" classes?
> They seem to want a lot of academic and
> pedagogical jargon that I am not familiar with.
Examples? How have they phrased their instructions to you?
Karl
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Author: nellsonic
Date: 2025-01-21 22:34
You mention lesson plans but seem to be describing a curriculum. Having a curriculum is a good thing, I'm sure you probably do - in your head. Lesson plans are largely hoop jumping for experienced teachers especially in performance courses or lessons.
I haven't had to do this in quite some time, but my understanding is that in today's world AI is perfect for this kind of thing. It would probably be a good idea to write out your curriculum in an outline form and then have AI generate lesson plans based on that. You can ask it to include the kind of terminology your "superiors" (a-hem) are looking for.
You can find plenty of information and instruction online about how to AI to generate lesson plans very quickly and easily. The examples I've seen have actually been quite good. I wish I'd had that tool back in the day.
Anders
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2025-01-22 00:17
Thanks for answering.
In response to your questions: These are private lessons. I tried ChatGPT but the results were underwhelming. I am getting no orientation from the administration. It appears that the music school bureaucrats are under pressure from other bureaucrats higher up the food chain. They seem to want to have a file cabinet full of lesson plans that they can show to visiting authorities and outside credentialing committees. I doubt that we will have to follow the plans. In the history of the school, no private teacher has ever been observed or evaluated by anyone in the administration.
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Author: David H. Kinder
Date: 2025-01-22 00:46
I'm not an educator in academia. I am writing a professional development course on behalf of an industry association that I hope to launch in the next 3-4 months. It currently has about 34 different individual sections of an outline of what I want this course to include.
I wonder if you can put together more of a "Student Objectives" curriculum? Especially if you're teaching one-on-one, your lessons are individualized to the student, but you probably have overall objectives of the development of each student?
Could you put that in writing?
Quantitative skill development:
- Ability to pay certain pieces at a given speed and quality
Qualitative skill development:
- Ability to sight-read a given level of music
I'm just making things up, but something like this showing that you have a general idea of the development you want to have each student show... that might satisfy the bureaurocrats?
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Author: kdk
Date: 2025-01-22 02:16
elmo lewis wrote:
> In response to your questions: These are private lessons. I
> tried ChatGPT but the results were underwhelming. I am getting
> no orientation from the administration. It appears that the
> music school bureaucrats are under pressure from other
> bureaucrats higher up the food chain. They seem to want to have
> a file cabinet full of lesson plans that they can show to
> visiting authorities and outside credentialing committees.
Private studio teaching, while it requires the teacher to know what he or she wants the student to achieve technically and musically, depends for lesson-to-lesson objectives and procedures largely on the student's progress and absorption/assimilation of previous lesson goals.
Do you use a specific method series? If so, it's cheating, but you could try to reduce the sequence of skills in the method book to a text outline, lesson by lesson as you usually teach them. For each lesson include what skill you're teaching and how you're teaching it (with supporting materials). If you're not being asked to submit an actual curriculum, the competencies (or behaviors or objectives or whatever form of goals are in vogue), will have been built in by the designers of the method series. They will have done the sequencing and the "spiral" part of the underlying curriculum, and your university officials will have paper on file.
My experience (at least in public K-12 schools - my experience has not been at the university level) is that the people collecting lesson plans often don't understand a word the music teacher writes in the plans.
Karl
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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2025-01-22 22:34
Hi Elmo:
I think this link may have some good examples of what's going on at other institutions that you might use as a basis/model/starting point for authoring your own curriculum.
https://tinyurl.com/ycxhvrk6
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