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Video Music Lessons
What are the cons or downsides to using entertainment as a teaching method in younger grades?
I'm planning on becoming a teacher and I am interested in "edutainment", or entertainment in lesson plans. Such as music, videos, games, singing, dancing, etc. BUT I am curious to know what some of the cons in this teaching method may be?
First and most obvious con, crazed and insane parents. If you are teaching grades 3-6 then using entertainment to often or even a few times a year can cause an uproar with parents.
Grades K-2 are a little different, using entertainment more then once within a short amount of time can cause the children to be distracted and/or loose interest in whatever you are trying to teach them. If they enjoy the entertainment too much then they will only focus on that one thing.
Slightly older grades such as 7-8 can be even more difficult. Doing to many entertainment based things causes loss of faith in the teacher from students. This is because they will believe you are too care free and they will get nothing productive done in your class. At the same time it will cause more serious and in larger quantities of uproar from parents.
But all-in-all it really depends on how you decide to use entertainment.
if you use entertainment that is too boring, nothing happens. If too entertaining, nothing gets done efficiently.
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