Kodaly in Action #1: Entrance, Warmup

[@edisonthethird]

I noticed how the children weren’t singing in tune at first but after repetition, they tuned themselves! Proves you don’t need to drill pitch matching at this stage. Develop the ear and then the pitch will come! Bravo!

[@dynamicmusicroom221]

This is Zach who made the video! Thank you for the comments (even those who were hating 😂). I have a new channel here if you want more helpful music teacher stuff.

[@studioinme]

This was very focused, and this teaches children to hold the same focus & direction in life. The idea to have fun, stay together and I like the creative choices, demonstrated in the children's outfits.

[@RhyseeB]

This is masterful teaching. The pacing. The ease of approach. The attention to individuals. The incorporation of body movement. All of it! From the first moment the children enter the classroom, they are 100% engaged and invested in the activities and lessons. Complete control. Looks easy, doesn't it?

[@michigankodaly686]

Thanks!

[@taranewman3111]

As someone currently studying to become a Primary Music Teacher who uses the Kodaly method, this video was absolutely amazing! We were shown this video in class last week, and so I went back and found the entire series of videos because it was so helpful! I love how you are not worried about the inaccurate pitch from students (this is something I struggle with, especially since I have perfect pitch), because it will resolve itself over time. And I especially love how you have made all parts of the lesson flow together; from first interaction, to greeting, warming up, familiar songs/content, and then moving into the class content for that week.

[@elanloeb]

I love that you don't comment on the kid with the long hair jumping around - a lot of teachers would punish him for just having energy but you're able to see that he's just grooving!

[@daisyrivera5041]

Zllzlz.Z.Z.s.

[@ohmusicsweetmusic]

I like how he's not worried about the inaccurate pitch matching.... knowing that it will take care of itself eventually.

[@Singwithsandra]

This seems like a great start of the lesson. Peaceful, in an orderly manner, yet engaging. I must try it with my students.

[@carismaloney1377]

It's 2020 and I just came across this video. I absolutely loved your interaction with these kids and this method. Thank you for sharing.

[@teachersamtravels4028]

This is a superb warmer. Everything flows effortlessly and really goes to illustrate that we as music educators should be striving to make the whole lesson as 'musical' as possible. I like how you plant the seed of each concept , almost subconsciously (like even the so-mi notes on the guitar that you play right at the end of the intro @2:51) As a new elementary music teacher, I will be using this out on my first class. Thanks so much

[@YoungClassic_FM]

you're such a great teacher bro, you brought me back to my childhood

[@ffgiantsteps1]

Your videos are a fantastic resource... Thank you for being brave enough to post these... I look forward to the video postings of your "critics". You clearly stated the objectives of the lesson, you led your students through a series of activities that led to satisfactory observable outcomes. This is great teaching, PERIOD. The manner in which you taught would not be effective for my particular student population, however, that is beside the point. I am sure that your "chorus of critics" are NOT making this connection... Oh, well... keep on growing and inspiring your students. What I like most is that there are outcomes of this lesson that are NOT observable... Many of these students were inspired, comforted, and provoked... Music could be the vehicle that they choose to further explore all of those outcomes on their own... Keep inspiring, keep teaching, keep posting, and keep throwing light into the world like this... In solidarity, FF

[@Glimmerlight90]

The boy with the long black hair in the middle is giving me so much life right now.

[@raq.biomusica]

Great ideas to how introducing the pitch on the children voices, teacher! Thank you very much for sharing this material with us! Greetings from Brazil! 😊

[@emelpuck5437]

Thanks for sharing your work. I work with kids as well in a community centre and I'm always amazed by how many musical games they do.

[@olivierdecolombel7421]

fantastic job, very inspiring. thanks

[@lindseymitchell3995]

Thank you for sharing this!! Has given me ideas on how to make my lessons flow a bit more.

[@heathernavarro23]

I swear this is how I learned in elementary music in the mid 80s. I didn’t realize it wasn’t taught the same way everywhere.

[@rainyday7517]

Thats what i was thinking. I am considering it for my kids and it looks bery much the same as what we did in elementary.

[@Mrsvinikot]

These videos are one of a kind-I used them for my music lesson observation assignment towards my degree. Thank you so much! Please post more of that!

[@conniefletcher6884]

Thank you for sharing this ❤️🙏 The critical, snarky comments blew me away, but the rebuttals were sublime! 👏👏👏

[@EqDior]

My daughter use to love doing these type classes.

[@gojhann23]

First video I see from your channel, and already have my subs. Inspirational. I’m a music teacher in Primary school (from 3 to 11 years old) in Spain. Sorry for my English

[@donnawoods8039]

I heard Pange Lingua by Zoltan Kodaly at an organ concert last week. That's where I learned about his method.

[@rauloliveros1486]

This is good. I was about to guess the song too and I got it right. Nice approach.

[@lynn7049]

If I had had this kind of teaching, I wouldn't be sitting here behind prison bars.

[@Nirvanaraw]

What a great class!! They have a wonderful teacher!!

[@MurielvanDinteren]

Yes!! singing is a whole body experiment!!! Thank You!!

[@fluffynamedkimba]

aw this is awesome! WONDERFUL!

[@michigankodaly686]

Hey there! It's been a while since we've posted. Check out our new website at mikodaly.org. I also post more content on my KZbin channel, Dynamic Music Room.

[@gracewalker7539]

This is a wonderful resource! I refer to it often. Thankyou. I am wondering if I may try to begin kindergarten in this way. In what way do you draw kindergarten into the lesson warm -up? Thank you!!

[@clementpetit7776]

Hello and thank you so much much for your video. I almost never post comment on KZbin, but i really wanted to do it for you. This is helping me a a lot since i just started to work as a music educator, and i am looking for simple tricks to work on the voice intonation.

[@joannalevine5746]

This is great, how old are these kids?

[@muliercantatinecclesia5]

Brilliant! Thank you.

[@TheCompleteGuitarist]

great class

[@borgtennis]

Great video!!

[@viktoriavandermeulen5509]

WOW! Great video, thank you!

[@JaneWillowMusic]

Thanks for this!

[@jeremymorada]

I wonder if singing in falsetto helps them sing better in tune

[@ohmusicsweetmusic]

yes, it does but for male teachers that becomes very taxing on the voice - singing falsetto all day long, so it's a tool that is used sparingly. students must be able to hear the octave above anyway and that usually happens sooner with male teachers.

[@ElProfeAndrésRuiz]

This old men ! nice song

[@aretos2]

Great!More examples please, more samples.

[@natashaclosemelbourneperfo969]

Thank you - amazing!

[@lynnea9727]

I have that guitar in the app garage band

[@NelsonRiverosMusic]

Thank your for sharing. What grade is this ?

[@atatdotdot]

0:28

[@musicchick581]

I love Kodaly approach and use it through solfege and sightsinging but I'm wondering how this approach is student driven. Our evaluations dictate that all lessons must be student driven. This sounds very teacher driven. Can you explain how to make this student driven?

[@nimuroji]

An idea would be to have some children come up with vocal warm-up sounds in turn. After the sol-mi section the question could be posed, "who know's a song which starts with sol-mi?... Let's sing that". Owing to the prevalence of this interval in folk songs and also dependant on which songs they have already covered various songs might come up. "Who knows another song starting with sol-mi?"

[@musicchick581]

Excellent, thank you!

[@timphillips5543]

I think sometimes the idea of 'child driven' learning can be unhelpful if taken too literally (which it often is by the ever-present evaluators that haunt us). Shannon Luk's suggestions are great and these kinds of things help children to feel like they have agency over their learning but really this kind of learning it has to be teacher-lead to a large degree. I think the key to student-driven learning is in being reflective in your practice and responsive to the children's needs. To me it's less important that you are allowing children these small choices than it is to be always asking yourself 'are the children enjoying this?', 'are they engaged?', 'are they progressing?' and adjusting your practice accordingly. This, to me, is real child-driven learning.

[@ohmusicsweetmusic]

No you're misunderstanding the expectation. Students don't teach, the teacher teaches and the students immediately respond. Give a direction, have them respond. With each new thing, demonstrate it then have them immediately do it themselves. He's doing this perfectly. Student driven means you're only going as fast as the students are able to master each new concept.

[@user-jv3jb8zk6s]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@sylvianeta]

How old are they? :-)

[@umarta-qi3uv]

🎉

[@musicchick581]

Also, when are you taking attendance?

[@jessicaking7391]

At a certain point it doesn't need to be a separate activity in and of itself. You know your classes and can tell at a glance who is there and who is not.

[@TheCompleteGuitarist]

lol

[@ms.hildebrand9447]

Problem: when you teach 8 different classes ever day, and rotate between 3 campuses all week, you CAN'T get to know all your students that well. And attendance is necessary in the event of an emergency or drill. So I wonder about that as well.

[@adamburke592]

I always sing the roll with every student (call and response) in the passive part of each lesson using S,M= "Good morning Sal-ly, Good morning Mr Burke"

[@joanmatheny1945]

Is this Grade 1?

[@ashleykapoor2954]

You're singing pretty low for the kids to match!

[@heyheyhey40]

Ashley Kapoor Actually he wasn’t singing to low. He is a man so he was singing an octave lower than where the children actually sing. But children can learn to match his pitch an octave higher. It’s actually quite easy for children to this. But maybe this teacher can work more on teaching these children how to sing in their head voice. Because you are right. Clearly some kids were not singing the proper notes.

[@birdie5012]

Hello class! Hello … what? me?

[@jenniferkaniuka2705]

Students need more instruction on how to sing in-tune. Allowing many of them to sing so-mi patterns without addressing the importance of "matching pitch" defeats the purpose of the exercise.

[@TheCompleteGuitarist]

Children (and adults) learn to tune themselves given time. Pushing them doesn't get them there quicker.

[@timphillips5543]

TheComleteGuitarist is right. Explaining 'pitch matching' to them won't do anything. First they need to develop their inner ear and you can only do that through lots of repetition, lots of singing. They'll get there.

[@ewansvsdyslexior]

Hi Jenny, do you have any advice on how you might introduce pitch matching to this age group? Do you have any examples of activities a teacher could use? It would be great to hear your thoughts as this is something I struggle with myself! Thanks

[@ohmusicsweetmusic]

Jenny, absolutely wrong. Many times there might only be 1 or 2 who are having trouble with pitch. Singling them out only embarrasses them and makes them self conscious. The kids don't care so you just keep going and if you notice it begins to work itself out naturally without the teacher having to say a word. Isn't that amazing? That student is beginning to understand when he is off and is learning to connect his ear to his brain to his voice. It just takes some children longer, is all. The whole point of this video is to show new and improved ways of classroom music education. The old days of "no" do it like "this," try again, no that's not right, with the teacher constantly critiquing, talking and scolding are long over. Our kids are learning music in such a more healthy way than we ever did.

[@petiseiuli1433]

I always worried about this but noticed when singing with my kids their pitch improved over time. Still a work in progress but when I hear them in tune I tell them what they are doing right rather than what they are doing wrong. This lesson looks fun and the kids respond better to this than nagging them to be better at a skill that is developed and not necessarily taught. However if you know any exercises to improve pitch control and the ear then I'd like to hear them.

[@emmynic15]

Singing 😐