Information processing

I will have a lesson where I teach breathing techniques.  To get my students attention I will have a comic on the board about breathing and then ask them questions about breathing and why its important. I will then teach them the proper way to breath then I will practice with them (rehearsal).  I will then explain that to remember what it feels like to breath properly imagine you are wearing an inner tube around your stomach and that it needs to be inflated all the way around, but just in the front.  This is an example of encoding because the students are getting an analogy to use when thinking about breathing.

Attention quote, comic, music videos,
Rehearsal: practice
Encoding: use analogy, pictures, mnumonics, elaboration

Behaviorism: Shaping

Explain how you would shape students' behavior/skill/knowledge for something specific in your content area. Be sure to explain how you would reinforce students' efforts along the way. You may use either form of shaping: reinforcing successive approximations and/or breaking the task into smaller chunks and reinforcing for each chunk. BE SPECIFIC!!!

Beginners B flat scale

I want my beginning students to be able to play a B flat scale.
1.  I will first have the students learn B flat, C and D and reward them with points for learning those. With every point they earn the students will become closer to having a free quiz (20 points) where they can get a perfect score on a quiz no matter how well they played.
2.  Then I will have the students learn E flat F and G and reward them for completing B flat, C, D, E flat, F, and G. I will reward the students for doing all of the notes.
3.  Then I will teach the students A and the higher B flat.  I will only reward them for completing the whole scale. 
4.  I will shape students as they learn the other scales and different octaves.