Teaching Assistant Level 3 Assignment 1
Teaching Assistant Level 3 Assignment 1
Question 1
Describe how you might contribute to a lesson given to a group of seven year old children learning to play percussion instruments.
First I would speak to the class teacher I was working with and find out the following points.
1. Which percussion instruments will be needed?
2. How many students will be in the group?
3. Where will we be practising with the instruments?
4, When will the instruments be required?
5. Where the instruments are kept?
6. What is required of me during the lesson (help students? Take photographs or other tasks needing completing)
7. If the member of staff requires me to research some fun activities that can be done to build up the children’s confidence in using the instruments.
Firstly I would research the fun confidence building activities if it was required by talking to a musically inclined member of staff or search the internet for age appropriate tasks that lend to the varying skills of the students.
After the directions were discussed I would make the space suitable for the lesson, taking into consideration adequate space for the group of students to work comfortably with the instruments with out fear of hitting one another, I would also check the surrounding area for any other dangers present.
Next I would gather the necessary equipment making sure to check that it was in working order and safe to be used by the students noting any damaged equipment that I found needing repair or replacing to inform the class teacher, also recording what equipment I have borrowed and when so that others going for the same equipment knew where it was.
Then I would set out the instruments in the space the students will be using for this lesson before the teacher is ready to bring the students in so that the lesson could commence with out disturbing the students by making them have to wait for equipment to be set up.
During the lesson I would do the tasks
Question 1
Describe how you might contribute to a lesson given to a group of seven year old children learning to play percussion instruments.
First I would speak to the class teacher I was working with and find out the following points.
1. Which percussion instruments will be needed?
2. How many students will be in the group?
3. Where will we be practising with the instruments?
4, When will the instruments be required?
5. Where the instruments are kept?
6. What is required of me during the lesson (help students? Take photographs or other tasks needing completing)
7. If the member of staff requires me to research some fun activities that can be done to build up the children’s confidence in using the instruments.
Firstly I would research the fun confidence building activities if it was required by talking to a musically inclined member of staff or search the internet for age appropriate tasks that lend to the varying skills of the students.
After the directions were discussed I would make the space suitable for the lesson, taking into consideration adequate space for the group of students to work comfortably with the instruments with out fear of hitting one another, I would also check the surrounding area for any other dangers present.
Next I would gather the necessary equipment making sure to check that it was in working order and safe to be used by the students noting any damaged equipment that I found needing repair or replacing to inform the class teacher, also recording what equipment I have borrowed and when so that others going for the same equipment knew where it was.
Then I would set out the instruments in the space the students will be using for this lesson before the teacher is ready to bring the students in so that the lesson could commence with out disturbing the students by making them have to wait for equipment to be set up.
During the lesson I would do the tasks