Essays on Rehearsal

Running Notes

The observation was that of child #111. #111 is a five year female. She has been enrolled in the kindergarten class for five months. I observed child #111 for two forty five minutes sessions. Over the course of the two sessions, a range of physical, social, emotional, cognitive and language development aspects were evaluated. Child #111 has an approximate height of 40 inches. She is white in skin color and her overall physical appearance appears to be generally in line with children her age. In essence, from her physical appearance, she is generally healthy. After being introduced to the ...

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Embodied cognition incorporates that the human cognition is comprised and shaped by various aspects of the body, which eventually indicates that it exceeds from the dependency on brain. In this manner, cognition is observed to be dependent on the experiences that an individual receives from numerous sensorimotor capabilities of the body. These capabilities are considered to be highly integrated in accordance with the psychological, biological and cultural setting of an individual (Wilson & Foglia 2011). Embodied cognition also accounts for the feedback mechanism that takes place between an individual and the world and hence, the prevalence of action ...

Meta-Cognitive Awareness

According to the British Teaching Council, Metacognitive awareness is a mental condition characterized by an individual’s awareness of the manner in which they think. In the classroom context, the corpus of metacognitive awareness basically refers to an individual’s capacity to possess adequate knowledge concerning their learning process/progress (Murayama, Pekrun, Lichtenfeld & Vom Hofe, 2013). The development of metacognitive awareness is an imperative aspect of growth among learners and children. It assists individuals to become more efficient as well as enhance their individual decision-making capacities. Certain researchers argue that Metacognitive awareness is imperative for children and learners because it ...

Personal Statement

Degree Objective: Master of Arts Leadership and Administration I am an international student studying a Masters of Arts degree at Valparaiso University, Indiana. Prior to my post- graduate study, I completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication. Part of my undergraduate degree included a Fine Arts minor, in which I obtained a 3.7 GPA. My earliest college studies began at Hang Zhou Normal University (China) in music education prior to transferring to the United States to study. These early studies earned me a scholarship to both Valparaiso University and Hang Zhou Normal University. I have always been involved ...

Introduction

The choir members of “The Diocesan Choir, Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong” and their conductor, Dr. Allison So, always strive to improve the performances of their choir and make the rehearsals enjoyable and worthwhile. Therefore, they engage in numerous rehearsals to polish and polish their techniques and musicals. For this assignment, I observed the choir rehearsing a piece titled “Holy Is The Lord.” Effective planning is crucial for both group and individual rehearsals. The conductor, as well as other choir members, can employ various strategies to make the choir rehearsals meaningful and enjoyable for all the involved individuals. Essentially, ...

Dining-in is an opportunity for members to gather at official military functions to recognize an individual’s or a unit’s achievements, to honor one or more distinguished guests or to say goodbye to the retiring members and welcome new ones. It is a “formal dinner for the participants of a wing, unit or organization” (qt. in OPNAVINST, 1). The event follows the lively pattern of dining-ins held by units during the World War II. Apart from food and beverages, the event may also include a time for entertainments after the formal program of awards and speeches. Addition to ...

Memory

Memory is always associated with recalling of something learnt at an earlier time ascribed to the description of conscious awareness based on remembering of something of the past, in relation to the set of response and stimuli. According to Baddeley (1997), memory is defined as the process that is used in acquiring, storing, retaining and retrieving information that is acquired through human sense. The human memory is a complicated unitary system with two core divisions; procedural memories that deal with physically based motor skills for instance writing, playing, all conducted via cerebellum, and declarative memories based on facts or incidences ...