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Music lesson from the tube
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Posted on Feb 10 1999
Five grade four students from the College Laboratory School of the Northern Marianas College were yesterday discussing about the 16th note with their music teacher. Together with their seven classmates inside the studio, over 60 grade four students witnessed the discussion through the television.
Now running on its third week, this is the pilot program on music teleschool which was launched by NMC and the Public School System early this year.
From the studio situated at NMC, grade four students from Oleai, Garapan and San Antonio elementary schools share music lessons with the group from CLS every Tuesday and Thursday.
Vir Abueme, who volunteered to teach for this pilot class, get phoned-in questions from the schools.
Yesterday, the call was asking for clarification about the 8th and 16th notes, he said.
According to Abueme, by the end of this 8-week term, students should be able to know musical symbols and rhythm. Judging from his class inside the studio, they are well on the road to achieve this objective.
“The students I have right now are really fast,” he said. However, he hesitates to say the same for his “classes” out there.
“They seem to be following the pace based on the questions they have been asking. But I would know from the results of the post test,” he said.
According to grade four teacher Andrew Taylor of Oleai, his students are generally positive about the program. “I’m impressed that they are learning,” he said. After each session, his class would practice their own music and so far students are excited to learn.
This music teleschool program is part of the technology plan of PSS. The difficulty to find individuals who can teach music prompted PSS to launch this teleschool.
