Mentoring: Improving the Teaching Skills in Playing Recorder among Non-option Music Education Teachers in Kanowit District

Abstract

This qualitative research is aimed at guiding three non-option Music Education teachers, known as mentees, in the teaching and learning of playing recorder for Year Six from three selected schools in Kanowit district, a district in Sarawak, one of the states in Malaysia. The mentoring method will be used in helping the selected teachers and it will be validated by an experienced lecturer before it is used in guiding the three mentees. An expert of recorder player will be appointed to draft the teaching and learning that would be conducted. The data will be collected through three research instruments: classroom observation, interview protocol and document analysis.  The data collected will be analysed, coded and themed, and transcribed into writing.  Each transcription will be validated by the participants before they are used in the research.  It is hoped that the procedures which will be developed and the mentoring method which will be implemented can be an example to assist the three non-option teachers selected in developing knowledge and skills to conduct their teaching and learning of playing recorder in particular, Kanowit district, Sarawak.