Blog 23: Senior Project Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

I was most proud of the information i have researched and presented for my presentation, they were very informational and i think i did a great job explaining the informations i had for my topic and answers.


(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation (self-assessment)?

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b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?

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(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

The research note book helped me researched on many articles and books the CRAP test forced me to choose more wisely on the information i used.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

I would change my independent component 2 if i could go back and change it. I would like to actually teach someone music instead of taking piano lessons. 

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

The final presentation was a big challenge to me, and i feel more comfortable talking in front of people now, also the I-Search paper really help me learn a lot with the In-Text citation and how important to give author their credits. 

Blog 22: Mentorship

Mentorship         Mrs. Wang, Violin teacher at Rowland Privite Music School. 6262178156Interpretive Through my mentorship, i get to actual experience the process of muisc education from both the teacher and student’s perspective. I was able to talk to the parents who send their child to afterschool music classes, and knowing why they feel music is important as part of their child’s development education.  Applied From my mentorship, i get to know the how teacher feel when they are giving muisc education and what do they really want to bring to the students, which were creativity thinking and senstive hearing about the outside world, most teacher wanted their student to be able to think postivily and have a outgoing persdonality, my mentor believes muisc is the best way to express the inner feelings and to reduse stress. Muisc education could bring a huge difference in a child’s life.

Exit Interview

(1) Essential Question: How can music education maximize child’s brain development?

     Answer#1:Children should be provided with music rich environment to have access to music lesson that helps develop his or her brain at a young age.

     Answer#2:School  should provide music lessons, or music appreciation class as mandatory classes for students

     Answer#3: Music has the ability to perceive emotion in music is said to develop early in childhood, and improve significantly throughout adolescence time period development.

My best answer is my answer #1 Children should be provided with music rich environment to have access to music lesson that helps develop his or her brain at a young age.The reason the first answer is my best answer because this one gives a general view of all the impact of music education, the benefits of it could be covered all in this response, music rich environment is necessary for children's, research had proved that by only listening to Mozart's could bring your a higher IQ. The younger the children started to have music experience, the deeper the impact music could bring.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

I started to studying for information about the neuroscience involved in music education, explanation of developments of the brain with the impact of music.Musicians are usually finding with a better functioning memory compare to others, due to the long period of music note reading training they have received. An early childhood training on the memory task with music instrument can significantly improve the abilities to recall memories and help children's to visualize better and develop abstract thinking skills. These abilities of focusing, effective listening prepared by music education are integral to school educations. Music rich environment is the best way for children to develop early music participation skills, and ear training.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

I had trouble with finding my third answer, i felt like the first two answer covered all the aspect i wanted to mention throughout my project, with includes the development of children's, but then my mentor talked to me about music therapy, and Mrs. Ortega has letting us read a book that related to adolescence, i tied these two parts together during my research and then came up with my final third answer which was; Music has the ability to perceive emotion in music is said to develop early in childhood, and improve significantly throughout adolescence time period development.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

     The two main sources i have used was the book A Philosophy of Music Education by Bennett Reimer, and Research Report of studies for music education. The book helped me with founding the overall explanation of question i had throughout my research, like the meaning of the sounds and the example stories of how music have helped people growing up as well as the changes of music throughout the history. The research reports were done by different Universities, there were all beneficial for my researches, these actual evidence data helped me conform my thoughts and my answers.

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

“I, Zihan Xu, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
I have took 8 piano classes at Diamond bar music school ofr my independent componet #2, they offer a 2 hours long one to one classes for begineer  piano lessons, I was taught with basic informations of piano, the names of the keys, instructions on how to play, and most importanly ear training.
My teacher started with simple chords to start, and the proper hand posture, how to correctly move your fingers, I practice the scales and homwork at home with my keyboard.

My piano teacher taught me the twinkle twinkle little stars song~ 

My piano teacher told me the most important part in learning an instrument is to figure out the sounds, and break them down by know all the keys, i was taught to find out the name and sounds to different chords and scales, this isn't a one day thing, it takes long practices and experience, i had violin backgrounds before so i am able to figure out the notes of most out them, but the chords were hard to figure out. For the last class which was today, i asked him to teach me my favorite kpop song baby don't cry by EXO, it is a simple but super pretty song, he made notes for me and corrected my finger postures and helped me with the temple, now i am able to play it, i still need practice.

My essential question was how can music education maximize child's brain development, this piano class supported my first answer, children should be provided with a music rich environment, because music build your confidence and satisfaction when you successfully plays out a piece of music by yourself, and playing piano, you have to focus your left and right hands playing separate different notes while you are reading the sheet music, and also have to follow the right speed. Piano help you focus several different things at the same time and fully maximized the balance of the left and right brain.  

Extra Blog Apr.

The place where I mentor at starts getting extremely busy, new courses are coming up at this time of the year, I have been working all my time on doing the student registration, getting all the information and payments down. My mentor has been teaching a beginning violin class this month, I'm also helping her out but making copies of her class materials, and also helping the students a little bit with renting violin and etc.

Extra Blog Mar.

I was trying to get the Introduction to music class at Cal Poly Pomona, but the course I'm trying was too full the wait list is super long too, so I couldn't get into that class. However, I have found another classical piano class outside of school. The class I took is an individual one to one 2 hours long class every Sunday. I have already taken the first two classes, my teacher started with basic note reading and the simply scales like C major, and also how to play different chords, with a few finger warm-up exercise.

Extra Blog Feb.

I have completed my Indipendened component one this month and started with my second independent component. I took the certificate of merit exam level 5 for violin as my independent component 1, this exam was held by the California music teacher associate, gives you permission to start your  music class and become an actual music teacher. For my independent component 2, I'm planning on taking a music class at Cal Poly Pomona, I'm trying to feel the experience of college level music class and see college course have the same effect as outside of school classes.

Ext Blog Jan.

This month, I have completed the lesson 2, I focused on the process of how I have come up with my essential question and my answers, my mentor has helped me prepare my presentation and gave me lots of recommendation on what to say, like researches and actual experience of herself.  She also helped me came up with my activity for my presentation by choosing the songs for me. My activity was to put the student into groups and play several pieces of different music and let them discuss and present what the music have said to them or how they feel about the music. This will help students understand better how music and brain can be correlated and the effect music and bring to you. My mentor has told me music is the best way to bring emotions to people, and music can also be a great way to influence your behavior, like music therapy and etc.

Blog 18: Fourth Interview Preparation

1. What made you decided to be a music teacher ?
2. How long have you been teaching ?
3. How do you believe music affect student’s life ?
4. Do you think music is a influential towards human behavior ?
5. Does the genre of music affects people’s emotion ?
6. What is more important influential when listen to music ? The rhythm or the lyric ?
7. Is listen to music as effective as learning an instrument ?
8. What is your favorite type of music genre and why ?
9. How does music influence the society in your opinion?  
10. When is the best age children should start learning music ?
11. How can a child most effectively learn a music instrument ?
12. Should music education become a mandatory course in school?
13. Are there any negative effect when listening or learning music?
14. How does music effects the adolescence period of teenagers ?
15. How can music affects a person during medical theraption ?
16. How does learning music helps building self confidence ?
17. What is the most important thing to teach when teach music instruments?
18. Do you ever felt the changes in your students over a long period of time?
19. Do you think the influence of music education should be better spread out ?
20. What is the most effective way can music education development a young adult ?

Blog 17: Answer 3 third answer

• EQ - How could music education maximize child's brain development ?

• Answer #3 - Childresn's emtion can be influence or change by the genre of the music they are listening. 

• 3 details to support the answer -The ability to perceive emotion in music is said to develop early in childhood, and improve significantly throughout development.

          -Empirical research has looked at which emotions can be conveyed as       well as what structural factors in music help contribute to the perceived emotional expression.             -music is a series of simultaneous processes, and that it therefore is an ideal medium for mirroring such more ‘cognitive’ aspects of emotion as musical themes' ‘desiring’ resolution or leitmotif's mirrors memory processes. 

• The reerarch source (s) to support your details and answer Jonah, Lehere."the neroscience of muisc." wired science blog. Frontal Corte. Disqus. Jan 19. 2011. Web. 05 Feb. 2015.

• Music and emotion seeks to understand the psychological relationship between human  and affect muisc. It is a branch of muisc psycology with numerous areas of study, including the nature of emotional reactions to music, how characteristics of the listener may determine which emotions are felt, and which components of a musical composition or performance may elicit certain reactions.

Blog 16: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?How could music education maximize child's brain development?2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)Children should be provided with muisc rich environment to have access to muisc lesson that helps develop his or her brain at a young age. 3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)School  should provide music lessons, or music appreciation class as mandatory classes for students. 4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.Sttudnts with access to music lessons have better gradesMore out going and creative Has better left and right brain developemt 5.  What printed source best supports your answer?Laurie. "the right brain, the left brain, and the musician." Laurie riley music." 23 Sep. 2012. Web. 14 Nov. 2014.6.  What other source supports your answer?HTML article Music education helps stimulate and maximize brain development in children

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
I am planning on taking a muisc class at Cal Poly Pomona about music theory to get more experience on the music education. 2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
Homework assignments or projects from the class 3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
My Topic is music education, taking an actual music class will help me better on experience it myself, and fully understand the benefit and the process on how the class works.  

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) “I, Zi Xu, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 35 ho urs of work.”
  (b) The book basic keyboard theory level 5 helped me a lot on my Music theory exam, i  scored 92% on the test. Due to the police of the Music Teacher Association in California, the test materials are not allowed to be published. My muisc theory teacher he is a pianist at the Muisc school, also provides muisc theory lessons, he recommened the book for me, and helped me through the exam. Also, My mentor Mrs. Wang, she was also my violin teacher who helped me passed my performance exam, and the other pianist who teaches at the placed i mentored, she duet with me on the performance exam. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I have completed 35 hours on lessons to pass my Merit exam for my Level 5 violin certifitcate of Merit, this certificate shows you are a porfessosional performer, and alowes you to give privite muisc lessons. 
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• APPLIED
• this Exam helped me better understannd the concept of muisc education, the basic paart of it, and the certificated of Merit allows me to become a muisc teacher and to actually teach muisc myself, this way ill have a better understaning of the real life experience of muisc education. 

Blog 13 lesson 2 reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?I am most proud of the hook activity I did, I felt like it brings their attention to my topic.
2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?
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     I have turned all the works in on time, make eye contacts with the audience spoked loud meets all the time and contents requirements.
3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?The activity I did was better than I have imagined, audience were well participated.
4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?I would Pratice more to make my presentation more smoothly, with out that much of mubeling
5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be? I haven't find any other answers to my essential questions yet, but I think it should be something related to the type of the music.

Blog 11- Holiday Project Update

1. What did you do over the break with your senior project?
 During break, I have done researches about a non profit organization supporting education called Music Units, and try to be involved by volunteering at  that program.

2. What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

 The most important part i have learned through all the mentorship was how much music can impact to someone else's life, by improving child's brain development.

3.  If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers for your EQ, who would you talk to and why? 

 If I could i would like to interview a music professor or an educational psychologist, because they have a strong scientific knowledge to backup their provided information.