Observation Task 3: Supporting Learning through the

Performing Arts: Music and Movement

Focus: Understand the importance of using performing arts in

the classroom to link with academic subjects

Objective: To encourage student teachers to identify different ways

that performing arts can be used in academic subjects

Procedure: Identify two music and movement activities students

performed in the classroom and complete the table

Table 3: Music and Movement (Example)

International Objective :Description Observed Learning Centers
Learning (Music & Movement ) :(include photo )
:Outcome

The :Music The Role play area

students Appreciation: students show their
students
will be able enjoyment through imaginative have
descriptions or movements
to learn different
hand shark family
Pitch: students sing at the same pitch
movement member
Rhythm: students replicate the rhythm of a pictures and
song using their hand movments they sing
Conservation: students remember the
melody of a song

:Movement

high-low

fast-slow

,skip, stomp, march

Relationship: students are aware of their

partners as everyone performs

Interpretation: students use their

imaginations to move (ex. imagine you are
a tree, a camel, the wind)(listen to the
music and use your imagination to move to
the music)
Reflections on Observation Task 3: Supporting
Learning through the Performing Arts: Music and
Movement

Read the questions below and choose one to answer

1. The creative arts teach children that problems can

have more than one solution and that questions can
have more than one answer. One of the large lessons
kids can learn from practicing creative arts is that
there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
In your opinion, why is this important and what
impact does this have on education?
The students can be creative and learn movements
and creativity it makes the lesson more student
centered rather then teacher centered

2. Creative thinking and reasoning have been identified

and highlighted as an essential twenty-first-century
skill by many businesses, education, community and
government leaders. In your opinion, do you think
that this is an important skill for children to learn?
Why or why not.

3. Some people view creative arts education as a luxury

and do not help with the building blocks of child
development. In your opinion, what are the benefits
for children who are engaged in creative arts in
school?

This will make the children think " out of the box "
and have more creativity when doing what they want
to do and it will make it easier for them to have their
own personality and their own mindset