Reflection about Minions group (Mónica)

They started presenting the name of the group and telling us their personal commitments, since the beginning of the presentation they were almost all of them a bit nervous, I can understand that but as an advice I have to tell that they have to learn how to hide it because maybe they weren’t very nervous but enough for us to perceive it, that’s why I have to be honest and say that I felt a bit lost in some parts, because they didn’t explain it clearly maybe because they say non-sense things, and by this I mean loads of “em…” and hands moving, or because they speak very fast, but only some parts. Despite this, I think that it is a very good presentation and they took it seriously.

They used the Jigsaw technique, not competitive at all, the ideas were very creative and direct to learn not only the book, but also some skills that the children will be able to develop during the base groups and the experts groups, one of the thing is how to share the information you have searched, or be able to capture the most important things that happened in class one day by doing a diary, I think this was an amazing idea, very good for children and for the teacher to know what they’re learning and, more important, what they are missing, I say more important because this will give the teachers important clues to prepare next classes. Besides at the end of the diary they have to write a personal reflection about the topic and, also say what it has been more important for them or thing they did not know before. I think this was the most important part of the didactic sequence.

I also think that the presentation has too many lyric, it wasn’t schematic and because of this, I was a bit bored in some moments, and in my group we have the feeling that not everyone could talk about everything, only two or three people intervened while their partners were explaining. But despite this I think they have worked hard and took it serious, so good job guys! And thank you for giving us new ideas of teaching music.

Mónica Santos-Olmo Sánchez