Explain how you would teach a specific topic at the concrete level. Be sure to include how you would cause disequilibrium, how you would help them assimilate, and how you would help them accommodate.
What would you add for the formal level?
If I was teaching students how to read music, to teach at the concrete level I would need to introduce the ideas of the staff, notes, and clefs. I would need to do this not only by verbally describing, but by showing each element separately, as well as showing them each element in an example (most likely from their method book). One way to introduce disequilibrium would be to point out that the lines and spaces of the staff mean something different for each clef. A way to help them assimilate this information would be to explain to them that middle C is their key, and show them where to find middle C for each clef. I could also help them by showing notes on the staff, blending and overlapping from bass clef, through tenor clef, up to treble clef. Another way to help them would be to play the piano and point out that the lower sounding notes belong to the lower clef, and the higher notes to the higher clef. I could also have them sing pitches to match what notes they are looking at and I am playing (for example, if they are looking at an A, I can play the A and have them sing it, to help internalize the concept of that note/sound).
For the formal level, I could ask them to make musical words from the notes, or to write a simple melody for the class to play.
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