Music: BABSKY song and dance

Teaching: An effective key to self-learning This project is funded by European Union.

PRESENTATION AND EVALUATION OF THE LESSON

Part 1 – Why music?• The first project meeting was in Ostrava in

January 2015. Some pupils were very helpful and involved in all phases of this visit.

• After the team travelling to the second meeting in Marbella in Spain was chosen, we mapped their interests. They were good at music, not so interested in STEM and one of the teacher going with them was a music teacher.

• The music lesson held in Ostrava was fun and we hoped that Spanish pupils love music and dance too.

What happened next?• At first, we did not know which song too pick

because there were so many. So we thought about teaching a dance and doing a P.E. lesson instead.

• Which dance should we teach abroad? The modern dances are international and there was no need to prepare the lesson.

• It became clear that we should teach a traditional Czech dance. There is multitude of them but our team did not know them.

Growing interest in folklore• Klára, Michaela J. and

Veronika participated in folklore performance with rhymes when they were in grade 3, 4 and 5 with local group called Odra.

• We asked the folklore experts to help to choose the best dance for us. We had one condition: „The dance will represent our regional traditions“.

Chosing the topic for our lesson • After consulting the folklore experts, we decided to

learn dance steps which represented our region and the Czech pupils could dance later on a ball.

• The dance called „Babsky z Korně“ was picked up to teach pupils in Spain. This dance is connected to the song „Na ohništi“.

• Finally we added dance steps „Karičky“ on song „Zalužicky polo“, made a presentation about folklore costumes, and we had the Music lesson ready.

Part 2 – OUTCOME for MANUAL • Title: BABSKY dance and song• Subject: MusicTarget age: 8 – 16 Time: 1 lessons• Goal: To introduce Czech traditions and teach a song and a dance• Objectives:• To introduce Czech culture, language, and background of the

chosen „Babsky z Korně“ dance on „Na ohnišťu song• To introduce Czech traditional costumes with focus on the region

of the song and Czech pupils • To introduce and teach typical dancing steps with focus on the

region of the song and Czech pupils• To introduce local songs and teach melody of BABSKY with lyrics

„Na ohnišťu“ which we translated into English• To practice pronunciation of Czech words with the CLIL method• To practice singing and teach dancing „Babsky z Korně“

Lesson plan – BABSKY song and dance

1) Introduction of the team, project ideas and lesson 5´2) Motivation part: Performance of „Karičky“ steps on „Zalužicky polo“ song

5´3) Presentation about folklore costumes in the Czech

Republic and our region 5´4) Historical and geographical background of the dance

“Babsky z Korně” on song „Na ohnišťu“ 5´

5) CLIL – meaning of the Czech words and pronunciation, worksheets, video 5´

6) Teaching melody of the song „Na ohnišťu“ 5´7) Teaching dance “Babsky z Korně”

15´

Who took part in the lesson?• 6 Czech student „teachers“: 14 years old• Michaela Janáčová, Veronika Polcrová, Tereza

Pražáková, Klára Šmírová, Lucie Kobzová, Natálie Třeštíková

• 50 pupils from 2 classes in Spain: 12 years old• 4 teachers: 2 music teachers (CZ and SP)

1 school management (SP), 1 folklore counselor (CZ)

When and where • Place: Music classroom• School: El IES Profesor Pablo del Saz, Marbella• Date: 5 May 2015, Tuesday• Lesson 1 (class 1°D): 9:00 – 10:00 • Lesson 2 (class 1°A): 10:15 – 11:00

• Data projector, the Internet• Lesson worksheets, keyboard• Power-point presentations, video: http

://www.slideshare.net/alenaholas/lesson-in-marbella-song- and-dance-babsky, https://youtu.be/w1xkgABB1KI, https://youtu.be/BmVJA0dTZm0, https://youtu.be/jXQniwkE0Qs, https://youtu.be/sQ5dfj84xQM

Which means are necessary?

1) BEGINNINNG of the lesson• The first activity in the lesson was introduction

of our team and Erasmus+ project aims• After this our team shortly introduced our

country and the topic of the lesson• Then our team introduced Czech traditional

steps called „Karičky“ in their performance on song „Zalužicky polo“. Music was from CD.

2) Folklore in Czechia The Czech Republic has a rich tradition of folklore. The folklore costumes changed during time and in the last century people stopped wearing them. We focused on our region.

3) Place of origin of the „BABSKY“ songWe prepared a special song and dance called BABSKY which means OLD WOMEN´s. It is a kind of "Czardas" which women from both sides of the Czech and Slovak border used to dance in the pub called "U Janošča" in the Beskydy Mountains near the village Bílá, which means white.

KELČOVSKÉ SEDLO, NEAR „BÍLÁ“ VILLAGE

IN THE BESKYDY MOUNTAINS

CZECH AND MORAVIA PART

SLOVAK PART

OSTRAVA

What else did we teach?

• We explained the meaning of the lyrics on CLIL part of our lesson. We used worksheets and a presentation.

• Next we taught the tune. We used our translation into English which can be sung.

• After this we practiced the Czech pronunciation and sing „Na ohnišťu“ song in our language together with Spanish pupils.

• Finally, we danced the „Babsky z Korně“ dance while singing „Na ohnišťu“. Then all pupils made a circle and we taught them the steps and dance.

• We did not prepare any evaluation of this lesson.• The evaluation questions for team members were

part of the final evaluation form of the meeting.• But we could see the responses of our Spanish

pupils.• We believe that they enjoyed dancing, singing in

Czech and English and had fun to learn Czech pronunciation. They liked the initial performance of „Karičky“ with song „Zalužicky polo“.

• They cooperated during CLIL part but some of them were a bit noisy and talkative in this part.

Part 3 - EVALUATION

Czech student „teacher“ wrote:

Klára: I really liked the dancing lessons in Spain. I enjoyed working with Spanish students and I could see on their faces that it was fun from them, too. We taught them to dance and sing and all went well. I would like to repeat it and continue further sometime. I think that we as dancers were pretty successful. I can say for myself that I really enjoyed teaching others, I had a lot of fun and I'm glad that I've learned something new what I can teach others.

International pupils wrote:We do not have their written responses but you can hear in our videos that they clapped in the end of both lessons and most of the time they looked happy to participate in our activities. Some of the pupils were very active during the CLIL part and both classes cooperated during both lessons well. The first lesson in class 1°D was longer, it took 60 minutes so we had some time to chat and Spanish pupils showed us some steps from their traditional dance Flamenco and one girl came to sing her favourite song.

Teachers wrote:Czech teacher: It was great to watch our pupils´ hard work while preparing for the lesson, learning dancing and singing and making presentations. They divided the tasks evenly and were not afraid to take their part of responsibility for a specific task. Their team cooperation was going well during all phases of this project meeting. I appreciate the help and cooperation of other Czech teachers who participated on the preparations for the lesson. The Spanish pupils are very lively, there were more pupils in the class then in our school, and their lessons last longer than in our country. Nevertheless, I guess that both Czech and Spanish pupils enjoyed the activities; the Spanish teacher liked our worksheets with the notes which were sent to him in advanced. He also liked our songs.

Part 4 – DISSEMINATION1) We told about our lesson and the whole meeting in

Spain to classmates in form 8. and 9. in May and June 2015.

2) Michaela J. made a short video clip from our visit in October 2015.

3) In June 2016 Tereza taught two girls the steps from dance „Babsky“. Veronika taught the song three boys from her school. Then we worked more on the dance and prepared performance for a fair in Ostrava-Vítkovice.

4) On Saturday 26 June 2016, Klára, Veronika, Tereza, Michaela J. and Valerie danced. Patrik, Kryštof and Samuel sang the song „Na ohnišťu“.

We taught this lesson:class pupils town country language date

1°D 24 Marbella Spain English 5. 5. 2015

1°A 26 Marbella Spain English 5. 5. 2015

7. B8. B9.

2 boys1 girl1 girl, 2 boys

Ostrava Czech Republic Czech 16. 6. - 24. 6. 2016

Ostrava citizens

visiting a fair

The folklore group Odra auditorium

Ostrava Czech Republic English 25. 6. 2016