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Building Connections
Through Music-Based Learning Centers
Teacher's
Role
By: Suzanne L.
Burton, Ph. D.
University of Delaware
Your role in the creation and participation in the learning center will
take different forms as determined by the children's ages and needs. You
may function as facilitator, guide, active participant or as an observer
of the children's learning. Asking questions of the children, "What did
that music make you think of?" and providing suggestions for use of the
materials, "Once you are done making your instrument you could use it
to accompany a poem." will assist you in guiding children's learning.
Participating within activities will help you to view the function of
the center from the child's vantage point. As an involved observer, you
can watch for ways to extend the children's learning and monitor the usefulness
of the activities, the proper timing of introducing specific activities
to the center, and determine when activities have lost their appeal. Care
should be taken to ensure that the provided activities are open-ended
and organized for independent learning to occur so that children at varying
developmental stages can work with the materials. In that way, children
can select activities according to their own needs and guide their own
learning.
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