Video Reflection 1: Body Language

Date of Recording: 1/11/2019

Time of Recording: 8:00 AM-8:03 AM

Other Information: 95 Students; 1st Hour “Varsity Band”

1. Turn off the sound for your video and watch the lesson in silence.
2. Describe your body language throughout the lesson.
a. What gestures are you using?
i. Cutoffs are all choppy and aimed down & away from the students
ii. I snap ALL THE TIME
iii. Rocking back and forth while talking
iv. “floppy wrists”
b. What are your facial expression(s) communicating?
i. 1st- I need to be more cognizant of my camera angle
ii. I don’t smile often
iii. I look like I’m concentrating very hard
iv. I don’t address the students much; it makes me look as if I am uncomfortable
being up there.
c. Do you look relaxed or tense?
i. I look very tense and a little bit awkward.
d. Open or Closed?
i. I look very closed off in this video.
e. Are you making eye contact with the students?
i. From the angle of my video, it is hard to tell, but I don’t think that I am by the
way my head is moving in the video.
f. What is your body language communicating with the students?
i. It seems like I am uncomfortable with them, I don’t care what they get out of
the instruction and I basically just want my activity to be over already.
3. What is the impact of your body language on the instruction?
i. The students seem to be “going through the motions” and they are a little less
confident than normal. If I was more confident on the podium, it may help them
to be more confident in turn.
b. What bodily or nonverbal habits would you like to change?
i. I snap waaaay too much, and I hate the way my cutoff looks.
c. How are you going to go about changing those things?
i. I am going to continue videoing myself, and practice two different ways to
cutoff as well as making a note of how many times I snap each day.

Lesson Plan:
Video Reflection 1: Body Language

Date of Recording: 1/14/2019

Time of Recording: 11:20 AM-11:36 AM

Other Information: 15 Students; 4th Hour Jazz Band

1. Turn off the sound for your video and watch the lesson in silence.
2. Describe your body language throughout the lesson.
a. What gestures are you using?
i. Hair Flip: IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
ii. I look like I don’t know how to conduct a jazz band.
iii. I look down at the score A LOT
iv. My cutoffs are awkwardly huge and dismissive
1. But WAY LESS awkward than they are with 1st Hour Band
v. Time is going MUCH faster in my mind than it is in real time
vi. I snap ALL THE TIME
vii. Apparently I talk with my hands and I didn’t even know it.
viii. I look up when I don’t know something.
ix. My ictus is waaaay down by my elbow. Is it because I’m semi-snap-conducting?
b. What are your facial expression(s) communicating?
i. Interestingly, I look way more at home in this class than I did in the other- facial
expression wise.
ii. I look very concentrated when looking down, but when I’m looking at the
students/reacting to them, I have a nice open smile.
iii. I say “Cool?” and don’t even smile. No wonder nobody answers.
c. Do you look relaxed or tense?
i. I look mildly tense but not super bad!
d. Open or Closed?
i. I look about in between. Not as closed as the other video, but not SUPER open.
e. Are you making eye contact with the students?
i. I make eye contact when giving tips or answering questions, but NEVER when
conducting.
f. What is your body language communicating with the students?
i. I don’t move much, and I make lots of hand gestures. It makes me seem like I
don’t know how to communicate what I want to say.
3. What is the impact of your body language on the instruction?
a. What bodily or nonverbal habits would you like to change?
i. I want to look more comfortable, STOP MESSING WITH MY HAIR, and make
more eye contact with the students.
b. How are you going to go about changing those things?
i. I can practice my lesson beforehand to make sure I feel comfortable teaching
when I start to teach.
ii. I can make sure to put my hair up somehow (half-up or bun) to avoid messing
with it so much
 iii. I can also make sure to tell one of the students/CT that I am going to look at
them and use them to stay accountable with looking up instead of down (make
sure it’s someone trustworthy and kind)

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