I am deeply convinced of the usefulness of the voice in the educational field.
Since I am an instrument teacher in a music-oriented lower secondary school, I constantly use my voice as a means to communicate musical, theoretical and social concepts.
I have often used this means to reduce the cultural, social, linguistic and learning distances present in our classes.
To use the voice does not mean to choose a score and sing it with various parts, but it means to prepare so as to achieve that ability. The phonatory organ is perceived as something that is ours and is to be shared.
When we work with our voices, we have to consider that we are building something permanent in the development of a person. Therefore, we must not think that the activities conducted are disposable.
- For the choral activities that I conducted, I used the school’s auditorium, which is large as two classrooms put together. All the chairs were removed from the room so as to create a large environment where we carried out the first part of the lesson, which was aimed to spending time together and creating a group, occupying the entire space available with our voices and bodies; the listening activities created the conditions for good quality activities subsequently.
- The piano was used to accompany the students in the pieces, when necessary.
- In the activities carried out to create the group, I used small colored balls and other objects brought by the students.
The skills, goals and training objectives selected by the teacher for this experience are shown below.
The students learned how to:
- identify sonority and melody, and put them in relation.
- improve the performance of a piece, with regard both to music and choreography.
- understand lyrics.
- reproduce pieces of different genres and styles, decoding the musical notation and memorizing the pieces reproduced.
- organize themselves in the temporal and physical space in any occasion.
- improvise gestures, sounds or body percussion respecting the shared rules.
- use Sign Language properly in the various pieces.
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