Lucy Moss . Using the ukulele to share and teach musicianship in the community . Harrisonburg Farmers Market .

s Market . Explore More Discovery Museum .

Professionalism Frequent informal Pedagogical

assessment and feedback
In preparing for JMUke events, our groups communicated online, and
had in person meetings, to plan our leadership roles and practice our
instruments. We edited our handout and powerpoint to correlate to
each other and to enhance the experience of our learners. We went
promotes more meaningful
learning.
principles
out into the farmers market to talk to people and bring them to our
experience. When we saw people that were unsure of themselves,
we sought to encourage them. Every person in our group
contributed at least one chord/lyric outline of a song of their choice
and taught it to the community. We gave out handouts that
contained a QR code to a survey that asked participants about their
experience, so that we can continue to improve it through feedback.

Professional
Learning is reinforced
knowledge when students work and
By learning ukulele ourselves throughout the semester, our group
learn collaboratively.
was able to create a handout and powerpoint to help others learn
ukulele. I learned that consistency and variety are helpful teaching
tools. For example, we designated a color to each chord, and we
had multiple ways of presenting chords- both on the slide, and by
matching color stickers marking where to place fingers on a ukulele
to play each chord. We made sure to pick songs that people knew so
that they could learn an instrument in a comfortable way, using
knowledges they already have. For some very young children, the
ukuleles was too big for them to play certain chords. We encouraged
people to omit chords that were too difficult for them to learn at that
time.

Learning Meaningful learning

environmen occurs more often when
t learners use what they
To engage as much of the community as possible, we wanted to already know to
create a supportive and engaging learning environment. We used
technology to display chord sheets, lyrics, and directions, and amplify understand what they do
our voices and instruments. We brought in ukuleles so that anyone not.
could learn to play. We chose songs that we thought could be
accessible to learn in a short period of time. I made sure to engage
one-on-one people, to answer questions and to provide help or
modeling when needed. To create a positive environment, everyone
participated fully and modeled confident singing and playing.