Assignment #2 - EP

1. What is psychomotor learning?
Psychomotor learning, is learning involving mental processes that control muscular activity. A musical example would be for students to follow a beat and indicate changes in tempo through clapping or marching.

2. What is cognitive learning?
Cognitive learning is the acquisition of knowledge. In music, children are asked to learn about such things as elements of music, composers, style periods, and instruments.
A musical example would be to explain to a student that a quarter note receives one beat, a half note two beats, etc. and have the student play out the beats by clapping to fully understand.

3. What is affective learning?
Affective learning concerns itself with a feeling response to music.
A musical example would be for a child to experience the power and feeling of a melody.

4. What is the difference between teacher-centered and child-centered learning? Give a musical example.
The teacher-centered approach features the teacher primarily as a lecturer who presents material to the class by defining and explaining. The child-centered approach to learning actively involves students in the learning process.
A musical example of teacher-centered would be that the teacher talks and explains to the children about a musical concept.
A child-centered example would be for the teacher to tell the students to compose a song on their own and they can choose to march or clap to the beat of the song.

5.Students learn through a combination of their senses. Some learn fast through visual sense, others may learn more quickly through aural senses. What do you think about your learning style? In general, what kind of learner are you? (In which way, you learn faster and better?

I think that I am more of a visual learner. I can read instructions and follow the guidelines to complete a task. However, if I have a visual example with guidelines or can see someone perform a task I need to complete I feel more sure of what I am doing. Having to complete a task without a visual can take me longer than if I did have something to look at.

Personal Introduction

My Name is Edith Pacheco, and I am a non-traditional student at NIU. I am a single mom raising a fourteen year old boy. I have worked in the Hospitality industry for over ten years in the area of Human Resources. I decided it was time for a change therefore, I left my full time employment to become a full time student and pursue a teaching degree.

I do not have any prior musical experience other than singing in the car (not much of a shower singer) and when I clean my house. I put on quite a performance when I do deep cleaning. I enjoy listening to music and can pretty much appreciate all types (almost all) of music. I find that I turn to music to help me concentrate when I am working on an assignment or project. Music is very important in my life, I listen to different types of music to clean, to concentrate and block other distractions, to think, to workout and sometimes even to sleep.

I think that it is important to expose children to music because it can create a positive and upbeat environment. Music is soothing and can be motivational. It can also be used as a way to tell a story or express emotion.