APSMER2017 PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research
(APSMER 2017) 19th to 21st July 2017, Melaka MALAYSIA
Figure 2: Sample Report, Student-Teacher Programme Module Book
(page 1 only)
Module 2
This module is about Teaching Experience, where student-teachers have the
opportunity to teach a one-off lesson to five students of different levels. In
this module, student-teachers learn about lesson planning. As there are no
specific rules and requirement in teaching musical instruments, normally
teachers are left to create their own approach, and a lot of them fall into a
kind of ‘making it up as they go along’ approach (Harris & Crozier, 2000).
Student-Teachers need to be aware of the main objective for the lesson, how
they want to structure their lesson, and what kinds of activities they wish to
use besides teaching repertoire. Finally, they need to reflect on their own
teaching after the lesson (see Figure 3).
They also learn about how to communicate with students of different
ages and find out efficient ways to deliver their teaching.
These five individual lessons will also be observed by a mentor, or
videoed to be watched by other senior teachers so that the student-teachers
can receive comments from different sources.
Figure 3: Lesson Plan (Student-Teacher Programme Module Book)
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