1. What are the eight important objectives of teacher education?

42. What do you know about guideliness for teaching rhymes and chants?
Guidelines for teaching rhymes and chants
For presentation rhymes or chants should be played from a CD or spoken by the teacher
and the actions should be demonstrated. Then the teacher should check if the students
understood the content. It is not necessary to translate word by word but the students
should know what the rhyme or chant means. This step can be supported by visual aids.
Now the students learn the text step by step. In the literature are to be found two tried
and tested methods: the snowball principle and the echo principle.
The snowball principle means that the teacher says a sequence becoming longer and
longer. After each saying the students repeat that sequence in chorus.
The echo principle means that the students as a
group imagine they are an echo in a mountain wood, a valley etc. The teacher shouts a
sequence and the students repeat the teachers sequence. It is expedient to build up a
longer structure from its end.
43. How many types of songs and rhymes do you know?
Types of songs and rhymes
There are a lot of different types of song and rhyme with special characteristics. But not
all are useful for primary school students. The teacher has to check the suitability
according to the size of the text, the vocabulary, the structure and his didactic intention.
The following types of songs and rhymes are each linked with an example of which the
texts are to be found in the appendix.
Types of songs;
1. Finger play songs.
2. Counting songs.
3. Spelling songs
4. Action songs.
5. Songs for special occasions.
6. Spirituals (religious songs).
Types of rhymes
Rhymes are taught “to practise the sounds, rhythms and stress patterns of English and in
some cases to practise a structure” (Phillips 1993: 108). The didactic background of
some types of rhymes is similar to the types of songs described. Above therefore we list
the types of rhymes without detailed descriptions unless there is not a corresponding
type of songs.
1. Finger play rhymes.
2. Counting rhymes.
3. Choosing rhymes (counting-out rhymes)
4. Action rhymes
5. Jump rope rhymes
6. Clapping rhymes