My name is Brian Schneckenburger. I am married, and I live in Parkville, MD with my wife, two dogs, two cats and a sister-in-law. I am a native of the Rochester, NY area. In my spare time, I like reading, watching baseball (I am a huge New York Yankees fan), and travelling (my current favorite place is New Orleans, LA).
I am an instrumental music teacher in the Baltimore City Public Schools, where I have taught for the previous three years. I am in my twelfth year of public school teaching, having taught for five years in New York State, and three in Arizona before moving to Maryland. I have also taught as an adjunct for six years in the Music Departments of Plattsburgh State University (NY), St. Lawrence University (NY), and currently at The Community College of Baltimore County at Essex.
I possess Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in Music Education from the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam, and am currently in my third year as a doctoral student at The University of Maryland, College Park, where I am pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction/ Music Education. I also possess an Advanced Professional Certificate in Maryland, and Permanent Teaching Certification in New York. My main instrument is the trumpet, and I recently recorded several excerpts to be used on an upcoming movie trailer and video game.
For this class (which I am taking to renew certification in the State of Maryland), I expect to learn practical techniques that will enable me to integrate aspects of reading effectively into my curriculum and practices as an instrumental music teacher.
I also agree with your response to Dr.Moje article and Podcast. I feel that it is especially hard and time consuming when children do not have background knowledge in your content area which ultimately hinders the literacy aspect due to having to try to get them to understand the new subject matter.
ReplyDeleteStudents unknowingly use information from other areas of learning for cross-disciplinary applications and literacy instruction in those individual areas will re-enforce or increase awareness of such usages.Studious in the classroom is the teacher responsibility, studious of the learner is up to to the student, the parents, and in some cases environmental conditions.
ReplyDeleteI would agree with you that one goal in teaching and instruction and maybe it should be the ultimate goal, is when the student is able to transfer what he has learned across content areas. The concept of applying prior knowledge to what is being currently taught in the classroom creates a learning environment where students are able to play a more active role in the learning process and are thereby more likely to be academically successful.
ReplyDeletePerhaps if you can provide your students with examples in which composers explain the methods that they experienced to learn music theory or the methods in which they applied/acquired the skills of attack then it could help the students to respond critically or to foster discussion. Further, incorporating critical reviews from journalists may spark ideas. In this way, constructivism could be incorporated that, of course, could lead to a measurable outcome. When I hear the words critical thinking, Bloom’s Taxonomy comes to mind which can be used to guide your students’ critical responses.
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