Category: Professional & Personal Development

Cher has interests in sharing about professional development for general teachers and music teachers. Teacher development and training is an area that is developing at a fast pace ever since the the pandemic. Since then, teachers are getting up to speed in using technology in their classrooms and studio. Cher’s articles will have a lot of emphasis in tech tools for education as well as best practices to help teachers grapple with online learning and hybrid teaching.

Creating A Channel For Me and My Students

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Creating A Channel For Me and My Students

Social media is the in-thing of this age. You cannot run away from it. There are times where my students manage to find my private FB account through my colleagues. However, my opinion is that we shouldn’t mix up our personal lives with people at our work place. This is especially when your students wants to be your friend on FB.

Just a few days ago, I created a separate FB account which is exclusively for my students. However, it is so inconvenient to manage two FB accounts; it is very tedious to log in and out of two accounts. Then tonight I came across the idea of creating an FB page with my private account. The good thing is your private stuff are still kept private. So I thought I try it out and see what happens in the coming weeks or months.

If there is anyone who are having a similar predicament as me, what’s your say in this? Do you think creating an exclusive page is better than creating a second account? What do you think the page should have?

Grade 5: Singing While Playing With Instruments

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This lesson is about having the students coordinating their singing when playing instruments at the same time. I think this is the most basic activity to do when teaching children to sing or teaching children to play instruments. However, when you really break down the topic into small chunks, singing while playing instruments is not… Continue reading Grade 5: Singing While Playing With Instruments

It’s A Beautiful House (Video)

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A few weeks back, I had a lesson on changing the lyrics of a song for Grade 1. As they will be using the same song for their summative assessment, I have created this video for their benefit and hopefully their parents are kind enough to show them the video and help their kids practise this song.

The original sound track came from this youtube site.

In this age of technology, I find it so useful as a music teacher to obtain instrumental or karaoke tracks from the internet.  It helps me to recreate songs for class purposes. I think it’s very important that we have all the tools we need to make a class work.

I recorded the new sound track with my ipad on the Garage Band app. I’m glad to have invested such a good device and good app since my university days. It is very handy.