Analysis: To Kill A Mocking Bird

In this section, I am basing my experience with observing Dr. Whitcomb when she taught preschoolers during class and my visit to the Child Development Center. It was an experience seeing a preschool setting right in front of us. It made me remember preschool as a kid. I did not remember my experiences that vividly with music in my preschool. This experience made me jog a lot of memories though of my self and watching my little brothers having music in the classroom. There were a lot of activities that helped foster basic music competence. The very first activity after the students sat down achieved basic music competence. That activity was Keep a Steady Beat and Hello Everybody. First, we were establishing the steady beat for the song which …show more content…
They first were present with a very confident persona yet authoritative. We are in charge if you are the teacher you need to be confident. They students responded very well to her teachings. Most listened and if they did not, she got them in line no problem by calling them out very indistinctly so it did not break of the flow at all. Dr. Whitcomb has shown her unbelievable musicianship skills numerous times over the semester, and they were really showed within the preschool. This builds off experience. Dr. Whitcomb has been doing this for years. Many times we have trouble audiating a pitch for a cue. She can almost pull the pitch out of thin air with the pitched cue. She may need help with piano sometimes, but for these preschool songs she knew them inside and out. The expressiveness of her teaching also is a big part of her musicianship. She never is not looking at her students without a smile. It makes for the best ability to keep the students engaged.
I noticed a lot of a lot of different things with the musical abilities of the children. I noticed what I thought there would be in the classroom. That was you get a bell curve of abilities. You had the two extremes on the neglected and gifted side of