Creativity & Student Directed Learning

Bob Habersat
Shedthemusic

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What Do We Currently Do?

  • Teacher led activities

  • Collaborative music making

  • Direct Instruction

  • The concert cycle

Student Centered Project Based Learning

  • Whos driving the train

  • Product V Process

Three Levels of Student Centered, Project Based Learning

  • Level 1: Adaptations and Augmentations- Things you can do with the lessons you currently teach 

  • Level 2: Alterations- Creating Different Learning opportunities

  • Level 3: Transformation- A Culture Shift

Level 1 | Student Choice

  • Get to know who they are

  • Student choice for songs. 

  • Have students count off- assisted count off

Level 1- Questioning

  • Who are you calling on?

  • How do you check for understanding?

  • No “I Dunno”

  • Metacognitive questions

  • Anonymous responses

  • Scaffold problem solving

Level 2- Project Based Learning- Before

  • Projects give meaning to what you are learning

  • Create expectations

  • Practice working in a group before the project starts

  • Pop Punk Songwriting Project Example

Level 2- Project Based Learning- During

  • It's messy

  • Create micro deadlines & check in often

  • Co-produce

  • Model failure

  • Celebrate process

Level 2- Project Based Learning- After 

  • Reflect

  • Showcase

Level 3- Student Directed Learning

  • What are your students interested in and what do you want them to learn

  • They are in charge

  • Student directed learning gives big purpose

  • Give them a mic, teach them how to use it, turn it up

  • What is going on at my school right now

  • What is going on at Fayette County